Industrial Systems & Networks (ISN)
The industrial automation sector has continuously evolved over the past five decades. The emergence of industrial networking is one of the most notable developments during this evolution. Industrial networks have much stringent service requirements as compared to enterprise/consumer networks and exist across various industrial domains such as manufacturing, oil and gas, energy generation and distribution, and chemical processing. Recent developments underpinned by the Industry 4.0 (or the wider Industrial Internet) initiative envisage enhanced efficiency, productivity, and flexibility of legacy industrial systems through integration of Internet-of-Things (IoT), robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR), and 3D printing technologies.
The ISN group at BRIL recognises resilient, intelligent, trustworthy, and goal-oriented connectivity (and its co-design with other technologies) as one of the main pillars for the envisaged digital transformation (DX) of industrial systems and beyond. The group has a strong track record of pioneering research and innovation in the areas of high-performance industrial wireless, local/private 5G systems, time-sensitive networking (TSN), and edge intelligence.
The Group’s recent activities focus on ‘software-defined automation’ wherein industrial operations are handled and optimised through software-based functionalities. Driven by virtual programmable logic controllers (PLCs), cloud-based platforms, converged connectivity, digital twins, human-machine collaboration, and data/AI-driven decision making, software-defined automation brings flexibility, adaptability, and reconfigurability to conventional industrial operations. While software-defined automation comes naturally to the manufacturing industry, and paves the way for Industry 5.0, it can be applied to other industrial sectors as well, including grid operations, energy transmission/distribution networks, smart metering, and material handling.
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