Success Story: Internet of Things in the Textile Industry
June 06, 2017
Get to know some of the improvements the Internet of Things can bring to the Textile Industry.
Technology, and the breathtaking pace at which it has evolved, has brought a new reality: Industry 4.0. Trends such as Cloud Computing, Big Data and the Internet of Things offer industrial managers unprecedented possibilities for increasing productivity, differentiating their offering and controlling every process that takes place in the factory.
Of all these trends, IoT (Internet of Things) is particularly interesting. It is the term used to define the network in which any type of device or object is connected to the virtual world through the internet, with information exchanged bilaterally between machines.
When associated with industry, this concept is called the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and it emerged with the use of ethernet on the factory floor at the level of sensors and IP-addressed technologies that combined information technology (IT) with operational technology (OT).
IIoT makes it possi