Manufacturing's roadmap for the internet of things and edge cloud computing

The industrial Internet, often known as the Internet of Things (IoT), is a new Internet development for industry. It entails integrating potentially billions of sensors, cameras, industrial machines, displays, smartphones, and other smart communicating devices (collectively referred to as “things”) into cloud datacenters and processing their data in real time on elastic and virtualized cloud resources in order to automate the end-to-end manufacturing lifecycle. Industry consortiums all around the globe are working hard to create and promote an open, standards-based smart manufacturing facility based on the Industry 4.0 vision (the fourth industrial revolution). Industry 4.0, according to Wikipedia, includes a variety of modern automation, data sharing, and manufacturing technologies. Increased availability of omnipresent, ever-shrinking, low-cost devices such as sensors, smartphones, and wearables; ubiquitous Internet connection and cloud computing services; and pressure on industry to develop quicker to retain competitive edge are driving the IoT's rapid growth.