The Impact of Edge Computing on Industrial Automation

Increasing the performance of all computing components enables the development of new architectures and platforms for data processing, sharing, distribution and storage of data. Speed, security and reliability of data transmission are essential parameters in industrial automation and therefore only those architectures/concepts that successfully meet these parameters have a chance to succeed in an industrial environment. The general need for data sharing has made that the amount of data generated and recorded significantly increased and therefore new approaches are needed to address these facts, especially in industrial automation. One approach in industrial automation is using Edge computing. Edge computing brings new power in data processing in industrial automation and opportunities in data processing of big data in real-time. In this paper are described basics of Edge computing and its connections in industrial automation.