Reports focus on progress with Smart Factory web testbed results, as well as welcoming Microsoft as new team member. Smart Manufacaturing Connectivity and Track and Trace testbeds also provide new results.

Major enhancements include ability to perform FUOTA in a standardized way. The ability to update devices remotely is critical for IoT applications, where many sensors are in remote or difficult locations.

In the smart factory of the future, machines must speak the same language. A decisive factor for robotics and machine vision applications is the standardization of the communication interfaces.

FITS architecture offers native integration of the OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA), as well as comprehensive control and web services for secure mobile, cloud, fog and enterprise-wide applications.

IO-Link has always offered easy wiring of intelligent, complex sensors and actuators. But in the future, even this simple wiring of the communication line can be omitted, because IO-Link is now moving to wireless.

Standard provides industry-accepted framework to enable performance and security while accelerating innovation and market growth in IoT, 5G and artificial intelligence.

The Microgrid Testbed’s goal to enhance the flexibility of real-time analytics and control, while increasing efficiencies, achieved 100% renewable energy via distributed energy resources in the test environment.

The Industrial Ethernet Infrastructure Components Report for 2018 offers a detailed analysis of the world market for the main components used in the design and construction of industrial Ethernet networks.

Publish-Subscribe, TSN and OPC UA are seen as enabling data interconnectivity and information integration interoperability in the rapidly growing world of the IIoT, Industrie 4.0 and M2M applications.