Industrial IoT (IIoT) is enabling the next industrial revolution – Industry 4.0 – with its demand for highly reliable, secure, low-latency communications.
Wireless technologies are driving the next industrial revolution, taking productivity and efficiency to new levels. Manufacturing is becoming more intelligent, flexible and dynamic. Workflows, supply chains and business processes are being improved through self-optimization and autonomous decision-making, leveraging big data analytics and deep learning.
The growing demand for flexibility drive the need to replace wired factory floor communication by wireless alternatives, and new applications like tool tracking or safety wearables require ubiquitous connectivity in the factory.
As result, wireless connectivity is becoming even more business and mission critical, leading to very strict requirements with respect to reliability, latency and security. Today's off-the-shelf wireless technologies will almost certainly not meet all these requirements. The next generations of wireless technologies such as 5G or Wi-Fi 6/7 will become crucial. Reliable testing of RF performance, interference impact, conformance with standards and regulations as well as latency and power consumption will play an important role.
