Wireless Communications for Smart Manufacturing and Industrial IoT: Existing Technologies, 5G and Beyond

Md. Noor-A-Rahim; Jobish John; Fadhil Firyaguna; Hafiz Husnain Raza Sherazi; Sergii Kushch; Aswathi Vijayan; Eoin O’Connell; Dirk Pesch; Brendan O’Flynn; William O’Brien; Martin Hayes; Eddie Armstrong

doi:10.3390/s23010073

Sensors (Dec 2022)

Wireless Communications for Smart Manufacturing and Industrial IoT: Existing Technologies, 5G and Beyond

Md. Noor-A-Rahim,
Jobish John,
Fadhil Firyaguna,
Hafiz Husnain Raza Sherazi,
Sergii Kushch,
Aswathi Vijayan,
Eoin O’Connell,
Dirk Pesch,
Brendan O’Flynn,
William O’Brien,
Martin Hayes,
Eddie Armstrong

Affiliations

Md. Noor-A-Rahim: School of Computer Science and Information Technology, University College Cork, Cork T12 R229, Ireland
Jobish John: School of Computer Science and Information Technology, University College Cork, Cork T12 R229, Ireland
Fadhil Firyaguna: School of Computer Science and Information Technology, University College Cork, Cork T12 R229, Ireland
Hafiz Husnain Raza Sherazi: School of Computing and Engineering, University of West London, London W5 5RF, UK
Sergii Kushch: Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Limerick, Limerick V94 T9PX, Ireland
Aswathi Vijayan: School of Computer Science and Information Technology, University College Cork, Cork T12 R229, Ireland
Eoin O’Connell: Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Limerick, Limerick V94 T9PX, Ireland
Dirk Pesch: School of Computer Science and Information Technology, University College Cork, Cork T12 R229, Ireland
Brendan O’Flynn: Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Cork T12 R5CP, Ireland
William O’Brien: Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Limerick, Limerick V94 T9PX, Ireland
Martin Hayes: Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Limerick, Limerick V94 T9PX, Ireland
Eddie Armstrong: Johnson & Johnson, Limerick V94 N732, Ireland

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/s23010073
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 23, no. 1
p. 73

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Smart manufacturing is a vision and major driver for change in today’s industry. The goal of smart manufacturing is to optimize manufacturing processes through constantly monitoring, controlling, and adapting processes towards more efficient and personalised manufacturing. This requires and relies on technologies for connected machines incorporating a variety of computation, sensing, actuation, and machine to machine communications modalities. As such, understanding the change towards smart manufacturing requires knowledge of the enabling technologies, their applications in real world scenarios and the communication protocols and their performance to meet application requirements. Particularly, wireless communication is becoming an integral part of modern smart manufacturing and is expected to play an important role in achieving the goals of smart manufacturing. This paper presents an extensive review of wireless communication protocols currently applied in manufacturing environments and provides a comprehensive review of the associated use cases whilst defining their expected impact on the future of smart manufacturing. Based on the review, we point out a number of open challenges and directions for future research in wireless communication technologies for smart manufacturing.

Published in Sensors

ISSN: 1424-8220 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Technology: Chemical technology
Website: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors

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