In this article, we’ll take a look at the definition of Industry 4.0 and the role of IoT within it. Then we’ll discuss the adoption of IoT in SAP and its role.
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. In this article, we’ll take a look at the definition of Industry 4.0 and the role of IoT within it. Then we’ll discuss the adoption of IoT in SAP and how it plays an important role. Finally, we will briefly discuss automatic inventory replenishment using SAP IoT. The picture below describes how the industries transformed from mechanical power to the Internet of Things. Let’s start with the definition from Wikipedia. “The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals, or people that are provided with unique identifiers (UIDs) and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.” IoT is systematized with three important components. Let’s deep dive into each of the components before we get into real-life examples. A sensor is a small device that detects the state of physical devices and transmits the information as digital signals to an edge or cloud solution that ingests and analyzes the data. Physical devices cannot sense their status without sensors.
