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Questions tagged [industry-4.0]

This tag is for questions about Industry 4.0, the application of IoT to the manufacturing environment by extensive use of transparency generating connected devices and cyber-physical systems.

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What is the difference between IoT and "Industry 4.0"?

When reading about IoT, I often stumble upon the phrase "Industry 4.0". But what is the exact definition of it? Is "Industry 4.0" just a phrase for an IoT application in an industrial environment?
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What to choose: 2G, 3G, 4G, LTE Cat-M

For a project I'm working on we are orienting on the available mobile data connections. Because the current cellular connections are in a transition from G to LTE, I'm not sure whats the right desicion. From what I read about the 2G and 3G networks…
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Looking for a relay that can be controlled from .net web application (via TCP/IP)

As part of one new requirement for web application I am maintaining, we need to send a signal to a device in a factory when certain conditions are met in the application. Sending a signal is simply short-circuiting 2 wires (physical push button).…
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IoT applications with heavy-load wireless communications

I am very interested in the examples of IoT applications where a heavy-load (for large amounts of data) wireless communications have to be used. To the best of my knowledge, most IoT devices would not require too large bandwidth. The things I've…
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Questions about MQTT max message size

I am using MQTT Paho, and I have 2 questions about it: How many words can I send as a payload message? For example, can I send all lines below as one payload? O1000 T1 M6 (Linear / Feed - Absolute) G0 G90 G40 G21 G17 G94 G80 G54 X-75 Y-75 S500 M3 …
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Connect Webpage to AWS IoT to Publish Messages

I want to create an IoT system. My system contains a robotic arm, a CNC machine and a web page. I want to use MQTT in which I can publish from my web page to robotic arm to pick up the object and put it on the table of the CNC machine. My problem…
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Fieldbus vs IIOT Difference

I am trying to understand the difference between Fieldbus and Industrial Internet of Things. Looking at the architectures, they both look very similar. Fieldbus is a hierarchical connection databus that progressively integrates sensors, actuators…
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Industrial Controller Vs Prototype Controller(Study level Controller)

What is the difference between industrial Controller and prototype(Study)level controllers or Raspberry pi/Arduino Vs. Industrial Controllers(PLC, NON PLC) controllers
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Open, Write and read RS232 port Android Studio

I have to do a project with an industrial android screen that consists among other things to open, write and read a serial port. I clarify that my device has rs232 ports (I think that the classic libraries do not serve me to communicate by opening…
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Device for conferencing in Cold Storage

What is a cost effective way of doing conferencing in a cold storage? The challenge that I'm currently facing are bad network, long latency, delayed respond, and low quality of video.
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What is the proper IoT architecture using Googles services?

What am I working on? I am currently working on a project that will in the future be connected to the cloud. I have a PLC that will be connected to the cloud. When the “process” starts, the PLC will continuously send data to some database. The data…
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Industrial IoT remote connectivity

We are robotics based company.We started our work in Industrial IoT, as we are in early stage.The problem we are facing is remote connectivity between server client. The server which has static IP is connected to main office. The client is connected…
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Relevance of Industry 4.0 to Automotive software engineering

I have read through the Industry 4.0 reference architecture (RAMI) and I believe I have some understanding of I4.0. I was thinking how can this effect Automotive software engineering. How can I adapt this in ASE (some technical components, which I…
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Acquisition of data from non automated old machinery in IIOT

Could you tell me how to get the data from the non automated old machinery using Industrial Internet of Things?
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