Virtual Channel Technology to enable Real-time Internet of Things Workload Consolidation
Yip Kin Choy, Wellington Wui Lun Cheah · 2021
In today's implementation of Industry 4.0, time deterministic technology is fast becoming a critical deployment element in smart manufacturing factories with automation enabled over massively matrixed and inter-connected edge devices, providing real-time communication throughout the ecosystem. Within a closed-loop controlled environment, real-time technology enables pre-defined responses to be prioritized, primarily in demanding an immediate correction in action, be it a change in production modeling, a readjustment in manufacturing efficiency vector, and even to the extent of triggering a safety flag over potential security flaw. All these require quick, responsive, and deterministic data flow from one node to another. Virtual Channel (VC) capability is a technology introduced to warrant guaranteed data transmission in a cyber-physical communication system. This paper describes VC technology, its importance, the underlying enabling mechanism, and computational routines to achieve the best-in-class accuracy in data transmission latency.