Applications of Internet of Things in Manufacturing

The Internet of Things (IoT) envisions the seamless interconnection of the physical world and the cyber space. This provides a promising opportunity to build powerful services and applications for manufacturing. This paper provides an overview of key research issues to be addressed and the latest advances in the area of IoT-enabled-enabled manufacturing. We first introduce the core technologies of IoT, such as Radio Frequency Identification, Wireless Sensor Networks, Cloud computing, and Big Data. Then we discuss some key research issues of IoT-enabled manufacturing in term of architecture, deployment and business model, data acquisition and processing, model-based decision-making, dynamic service composition, user-centric pervasive environment and latency reduction with state-of-the-art reviews. Finally, we point out some potential application areas of IoT in manufacturing.