A Perspective of Emerging Technologies for Industrial Internet

As an emerging paradigm of intelligent manufacturing, Industrial Internet aims to transform the production modes and improve the production efficiency. Since the Industrial Internet refers to a lot of advanced information and communication technologies (ICT), it has attracted great interests to researchers from academia and industry. In order to give a more comprehensive understanding of the Industrial Internet, this article gives a detailed introduction from the perspective of emerging technologies involved in Industrial Internet. Firstly, the article investigated the current research outputs and analyzed the development trend. Then, the authors reviewed a common framework of Industrial Internet based on the architecture of internet of things (IoT), and introduced several emerging technologies that promote the development of Industrial Internet, including the concept, the applications, and their roles in the intelligent manufacturing. Finally, it presented some challenges and problems about these technologies in future works.