想象一下，收到一封电子邮件，文本或Facebook消息通知您，该包装线将在Facebook帖子中标记，该帖子将在下周六举行一场活动，称为“控制电轴的控制电动斧头过多的浪费”。该消息还指出，识别“预防润滑”和识别“温度调节检查”的烤箱的压缩机室将加入包装线事件。消息结束时是一个问题，问：您会参加吗？
科幻小说？还是您应该期望在未来几个月内获得的信息类型？
This type of interconnectedness between machines, systems, and people is what the Internet of Things (IoT) is all about. And along with Big Data and the Cloud, IoT is among the so-called megatrends that are on everyone's lips. As often happens in these cases, people love to talk about such trends because they are synonymous with competence. Unfortunately, many of the “things” discussed are inappropriately categorized as “Internet of Things.” I've heard several conference speakers discussing such things as fieldbus sensors with a communication port and equipment supporting a serial communication protocol as being part of the Internet of Things. But that's like saying an enterprise storage server is a cloud solution.
让我们从物联网核心的基本技术开始，即互联网。互联网具有使其与所有其他形式的通信区分开的功能。根据定义，Internet是一组互连的通信网络（无中央治理），它连接了在世界上分发的计算机和设备。这是互联网的广泛互连和缺乏治理与任何其他个人网络区分开来。因此，当我们谈论物联网时，尤其是在需要更保守和控制的制造领域时，我们必须牢记，除非我们想失去物联网背后的真正创新潜力，否则物联网和互联网是多么不同。
物联网可以在制造环境的组织和管理中引入深刻的革命。设备，可能彼此非常不同，在不同的网络和字段中链接在一起，能够在他们之间进行交流和传输信息并与用户互动。所有这些都会引起高度创新的行为，不久前几乎无法想象。如果您考虑物联网的社会组成部分，这将进一步放大。想想一个设备网络，不仅可以彼此交互，还可以在操作员，工程师或经理的社交网络上进行交互。
This is already happening with some consumer devices, e.g., lamps capable of communicating with each other and reacting to social network signals, such as changing color or lighting levels in response to a tweet with a specific hashtag. Such capabilities can easily be extended to industrial devices.
参与社交网络的运营商越多，它越自然（甚至必要）就可以在同一网络上与他们进行通信。设计一个系统在任何网络上创建消息的系统并不难，该网络需要运行信号达到特定值或发生特定条件时需要操作员干预。在不同的网络上运行的不同设备也可以同时收到此消息，这将有助于通过照明的更改，机器的HMI屏幕上的报告，发送到发送到运算符的注意力，这是发送到机器HMI屏幕上的报告手表或Google Glass。
What I want to stress here is that the Internet of Things can be a revolution in industrial environments, but should not be confused with the normal network of things, that is now abundantly known; evolvable and improvable technically, but not revolutionary.
路易吉·德·伯纳迪尼（Luigi de Bernardini）is chief executive officer of自动保健， 一个Control System Integrators Associationmember based in Vicenza, Italy.
