Industry 4.0: The Industrial Internet of Things

© Alasdair Gilchrist 2016

Alasdair Gilchrist, Industry 4.0, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2047-4_6

6. Examining the Access Network Technology and Protocols

Alasdair Gilchrist¹ 

(1)Bangken, Nonthaburi, Thailand

In the previous chapter, we had to consider many diverse technologies and protocols that are in use today in Industrial Internet scenarios. However, thankfully within the access network segment we are on far more traditional network territory with long-established and dominant technologies and protocols. Therefore, in this chapter we will look briefly at the communications technologies that are likely to be implemented in an Industrial Internet deployment and the corresponding protocols and applications that are deployed as middleware to facilitate the ...