Architecting the Industrial Internet

Intelligent and resilient control

With advances in data management and interoperability, connectivity, and analytics, new generations of control systems are emerging, enabling optimal automated control of devices and assets. The control function in IIoT systems tends to be distributed on the periphery, rather than a centralized control. The distributed control must be intelligent and resilient, and capable of responding rapidly to a changing environment. The control system needs to sense, interpret, and react in the context of maintaining and optimizing operations. This intelligence relies on models that consume data from sensors and devices, make assumptions, and deliver control decisions within the confines of the actuator's capabilities, ...