This next industrial revolution promises to unlock massive economic and productivity gains and set us on course for a new era of tremendous transformation and progress.
Industry 4.0 technologies — IIoT, edge computing, deep analytics based on artificial intelligence and machine learning, ubiquitous networking, augmented and virtual reality, remote control and digital twinning — are maturing and promise to bring together the physical and digital economies. As they reach a critical mass of adoption, the opportunity for realizing a much bigger productivity boom is before us.
This Nokia white paper details how the Nokia Bell Labs Future X for industries architecture offers a framework for how companies can seize this opportunity. It hinges on investing in an architecture that can acquire a complete, accurate and continuous understanding of the state of anything that must be monitored, controlled and optimized.
Networks will be at the intersection of the key requirements of this transformation: to connect everything, put compute wherever it is needed, and apply insights to execute with precision.
