The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT): Challenges, Requirements, and Benefits
Ahmed Banafa · River Publishers eBooks · 2023
The idea of a smarter world, where systems with sensors and local processing are connected to share information, is taking hold in every single industry. The IoT includes everything from smart homes, mobile fitness devices, and connected toys to the industrial Internet of things (IIoT) with smart agriculture, smart cities, smart factories, and the smart grid. The IIoT can be characterized as a vast number of connected industrial systems that are communicating and coordinating their data analytics and actions to improve industrial performance and benefit society as a whole. Industrial systems that interface the digital world to the physical world through sensors and actuators that solve complex control problems are commonly known as cyber-physical systems. The transformation in business models draws a parallel with those sparked by the emergence of electricity.