industrial systems

Bringing the Cloud to industrial systems: trends, opportunities and challenges

Marcello Cinque, Associate Professor, Computer Engineering, the University of Naples Federico Il, Italy.

May 4, 15:30 - 16:30

B4 L5 R5209

cloud technologies industrial systems

In recent years we are witnessing the advent of service computing and cloud technologies in industrial applications, with intriguing innovations and novel compelling challenges. For instance, in the automotive, there are initiatives for consolidating Electronic Control Units (ECUs) as virtual machines on the same board. Or in the Industry 4.0 (I4.0), researchers and practitioners are dealing with the challenge of making the factory floor programmable by softwarizing hardware elements with edge-cloud native components. The talk will delve into this novel trend, discussing enabling virtualization technologies for industrial systems, including hypervisors, real-time container-based solutions, and software orchestration approaches.