IOT (IIOT) IN SMART MANUFACTURING
T oday, we are witnessing the rise of Fourth Industrial Revolution, (which is also popular as Industry 4.0) and Internet of Things, IoT , is being said to be the driving force of this revolution. If we look closely, the Internet of Things, IoT, has begun to influence manufacturing industry in positive light - mostly. It is reasonably transforming the workflow & management processes… and is creating smart factories out of manufacturing sector. What is IoT & IIoT IoT is said to be a closed network of all the objects that breathe-digits and codes and are allowed to communicate with each other in terms of sharing data, over the internet without human intervention. Further, when the concept of IoT is applied to the large scale industries such as Manufacturing –IoT becomes IIoT which is; Industrial Internet of Things. Industrial Internet of Things- uses embedded sensors, cloud-based data, and interconnected smart devices on the manufacturing floor to derive, artifi...