Industrial Internet of Things Common Concepts, Prospects and Software Requirements

The manufacturing and many other critical Infrastructures industries are posed to introduce the initiative popularly known as Industry 4.0 or industrial Internet of things. In developed nations, Industry Internet of thing technologies have already been implemented in varieties of industries like health care, logistics, avionics, waste management, military, smart cities and many other fields. So far, the initiative has provided various benefits that include improved efficiency, productivity and cost reduction. However, the prospective transformation of Internet of things Technology would see some change in the way companies approach manufacturing and other industries in terms of in-house software development, security design and implementation. Considering the fact that Industry 4.0 belong to the family of critical infrastructures, ICT application development, security design and implementation will always be complex, costly, large in scope, involves heterogonous network of things that encompasses dealing with a diverse set of Technological components. This complexity may result in misconfiguration, misappropriation and misconception of facts on part of users, software developer and security architects. For this reason, this paper details information technology component of Industry 4.0 framework with an objective to amplify and clear misunderstanding of key terminologies and the basic composition of industry 4.0 framework. The study also highlights industrial Internet of things prospects and barriers and articulates effective requirement elicitation process for application customization, development, and technological fusion and Security solutions implementation. The methodology of this paper is based on two research techniques namely literature review and a study on application scenarios from research communities and industries. Because of these, simple and effective model for requirement engineering is proposed.