Keynote: Advances and Challenges of Industrial IoT

The main challenges of the first Internet of Things generation were related to communication latency due to high physical and logical distance between end devices and server resources, vulnerability for network problems along the long routes as well as power consumption management. Thanks to the unveiling of the latest wireless technologies like 4G and 5G, WiFi 5 and 6 as well as BLE, the last-mile connection performance - communication latency in particular - is taking a huge leap, and therefore introducing new possibilities for industrial applications. However, many open challenges remain. These include smart and efficient analysis of massive data, automated management of the full life cycle of IoT devices, etc. The newest developments in Artificial Intelligence, massive softwarization and virtualization, technologies beyond 5G and WiFi 6 give hope for the unveiling of new potentials. This talk uncovers the above dynamics.