Wireless Technologies for Industry 4.0 Applications

Wireless technologies are increasingly used in industrial applications. These technologies reduce cabling, which is costly and troublesome, and introduce several benefits for their application in terms of flexibility to modify the layout of the nodes and scaling of the number of connected devices. T...

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Autores: Artetxe Lázaro, Eneko, Barambones Caramazana, Oscar, Calvo Gordillo, Isidro, Fernández Bustamante, Pablo, Martín Toral, Imanol, Uralde Arrue, Jokin
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
OAI Identifier:oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/59790
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10810/59790
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
wireless control systems
wireless sensor networks (WSNs)
Industry 4.0
cyber–physical systems (CPS)
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Sumario:Wireless technologies are increasingly used in industrial applications. These technologies reduce cabling, which is costly and troublesome, and introduce several benefits for their application in terms of flexibility to modify the layout of the nodes and scaling of the number of connected devices. They may also introduce new functionalities since they ease the connections to mobile devices or parts. Although they have some drawbacks, they are increasingly accepted in industrial applications, especially for monitoring and supervision tasks. Recently, they are starting to be accepted even for time-critical tasks, for example, in closed-loop control systems involving slow dynamic processes. However, wireless technologies have been evolving very quickly during the last few years, since several relevant technologies are available in the market. For this reason, it may become difficult to select the best alternative. This perspective article intends to guide application designers to choose the most appropriate technology in each case. For this purpose, this article discusses the most relevant wireless technologies in the industry and shows different examples of applications.