by Uwe Bormann

Thanks to the technical achievements of the last decades, our world has become more and more digital.

Take, for instance, the Internet of Things (IoT), thanks to which analogue objects can suddenly communicate with each other as well as 'talk' to their users.

While IoT devices have become particularly popular in the business-to-consumer sector, think of all those wearables and smart fridges, the topic has also spread to the manufacturing and industrial environment simply because it improves communication between man and the machine, hence prevents production stops.

Encapsulated in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) keyword, a new, rapidly growing market segment has developed in the last five years.

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