NDE 4.0: NDT and sensors becoming natural allies by digital transformation and IoT

With each revolution industry, maintenance, capital and consumer devices, infrastructure, society, and many more are growing closer with rising mutual influence. The third revolution started the digitization of data and the digitalization of processes, which are now omnipresent. The fourth revolution takes the next step by digital transformation, by bringing all assets from all different areas together. It requires data transparency and enables the Internet of Things, digital twins and threads, as well as smart cities. It presents the opportunity for everybody to use the data from technical and medical testing/imaging in conjunction with high repetition sensor information enabling prediction and prescription.