NFC-Based Commissioning of Adaptive Sensing Applications for the 5G IIoT

Improving commissioning mechanisms of field devices is a necessity under the massively increasing number of these devices today and in the future 5G-enabled industrial automation systems. Hence, we propose a simplified commissioning for an edge computing-based plug & use functionality using NFC tags with information models. This approach is expected to increase the efficiency in commissioning the field devices as it reduces the required manual user input. We also present two application scenarios for 5G-enabled field devices, which benefit from our proposed approach.

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