Using information entropy in smart sensors for decentralized data acquisition architecture

Information Technology is highly dynamic field with new innovations coming all the time. These days we are experiencing another industrial revolution thanks to the exponential growth of devices connected to the Internet. Industry 4.0 is based on cyber-physical systems which are industrial automation systems enabling many innovative functionalities trough their networking and access to the cyber world. By providing machine-to-machine communication and wisely using generated data, a huge amount of new opportunities will arise. The world as we know it today will have to be redefined. However, this trend also brings many challenges, e.g., "How should devices be interconnected?", or, "How exactly can we take advantage of these opportunities?" The truth is that it is only up to us how big changes this trend will bring. The aim of this paper is to show the potential of the current situation in IT and to illustrate a new possibility in data acquisition.