Insights from BCC Research

Industry 4.0 concepts are streamlining the factory floor. Machine vision technologies – the giving of manufacturing equipment visual inspection capabilities – is an emerging technology that, as this excerpt from a recent BCC Research report suggests, is being widely adopted on assembly lines to perform inspections and to ensure high quality of workmanship.

The internet of things is expanding at an astonishing rate—so alarming that there was fear of running out of IP addresses for internet connected sensors. Fortunately, IPv6 brought about 3.4x10^38 more addresses, and now, the sky is the limit when it comes to the number of connected sensors. Below is an excerpt from the BCC Research Staff report “Sensors for the Internet of Things (IOT): Global Markets.”