The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Industry 4.0 are today two of the most popular
research and development fields, drawing attention from both academia and industry. The …

Electricity, water or air are some Industrial energy carriers which are struggling under the
prices of primary energy carriers. The European Union for example used more 20.000. 000 …

Open platform communications (OPC) unified architecture (UA) is a communication standard
increasingly used in industrial automation systems to enable the exchanging of control and …

Current manufacturing and production are changing more and more into a flexible and
adaptable factory layout that requires rapid changeover and short reconfiguration times of …

Industrie 4.0 introduces a concept of digitalized production by allowing agile and flexible
integration of new business models while maintaining manufacturing costs and efficiency at …

Dedicated fieldbuses were developed to provide temporal determinisms for industrial
distributed real-time systems. In the early stages, communication systems were dedicated to …

Distributed control systems are currently evolving towards Industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT)
systems. However, they still suffer from complex commissioning processes that incur high …

Software technologies play an increasingly significant role in industrial environments,
especially for the adoption of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). In this context, the …

In recent times there has been significant advances in managing different types of sensors
and industrial devices by IoT (Internet of Things) protocol. Along with the availability of …

OPC unified architecture (UA), a communication standard for the manufacturing industry,
enables exchanging control and management data among distributed entities in industrial …