Advanced industrial communication systems are fundamental pillars of the ongoing digital transformation of industrial systems. Initiatives like the Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet Consortium aim at increasing the overall production efficiency leveraging on fast, reliable, and deterministic communication technologies. The improvements of information and communication technologies (ICT), driven by the tremendous influence of the consumer market, result in positive relapse for the industrial ICT, allowing an ever-increasing amount of data and information to be gathered from systems, machines, and devices. On the other hand, the availability of low-cost computational capabilities permitted to easily process these “Big Data,” generating on-the-fly trend forecasts for the management systems, which, in turn, allow to issue actions for controlling the manufacturing processes in real time. The ensemble of all these technologies is generally addressed with the term industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

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客座社论：先进工业通信系统：下一代工业通信生态系统的先睹为快


先进的工业通信系统是工业系统持续数字化转型的基本支柱。工业 4.0 和工业互联网联盟等举措旨在利用快速、可靠和确定性的通信技术提高整体生产效率。在消费市场的巨大影响力的推动下，信息和通信技术（ICT）的进步导致工业ICT的积极复苏，使得从系统、机器和设备中收集的数据和信息量不断增加。另一方面，低成本计算能力的可用性允许轻松处理这些“大数据”，为管理系统生成动态趋势预测，从而允许发出控制制造过程的操作实时。所有这些技术的集合通常用工业物联网 (IIoT) 一词来描述。