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Preambles
In this manner, it is possible to remotely observe and control any equipment or process in industry.
Chapter 66 focuses on methods that permit the handling of multiple processes with the ability of easy
reconfiguration. Chapter 67 shows how to develop Internet robots that are capable of performing autonomous
processes inclosing a search in the Internet. Examples in this chapter were developed in PERL,
but this can also be developed in PHP and Python. This part also illustrates the philosophy of distributed
programming, in which the software need not be executed locally.
Preamble to Part V: Outlook
Dietmar Dietrich and Dietmar Bruckner
Institute of Computer Technology
Vienna University of Technology
Vienna, Austria
Gerhard Zucker
Energy Department
Austrian Institute of Technology
Vienna, Austria
The final part of this book examines the future of industrial communication systems. With the rapidly
increasing capabilities of computation and communication systems, we are able to create systems that
have long been only concepts or even dreams. Processes become more complex because more data are
available, and these data can be processed by more sophisticated algorithms. New ideas are necessary
to control complexity. On the one hand, these are new paradigms for communication structures such
as extended vertical integration of systems, service-oriented architecture, and hybrid local networks.
On the other hand, industrial electronics as a whole can profit from knowledge that has been gathered
in other disciplines such as artificial intelligence using statistical methods to process huge amounts of
data with the aim of understanding the human mind, the most sophisticated control and communication
device that we have at hand. This part briefly touches upon these topics and glances through ongoing
developments that may in the future contribute to new generations of industrial communication
systems.
© 2011 by Taylor and Francis Group, LLC