Cloud computing is moving beyond the consumer and enterprise markets to support manufacturing and industrial automation in other industries. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) represents a significant opportunity for both the centralized cloud-as-a-service model for software, platforms and infrastructure and for distributed computing, with IIoT edge computing enabling the ICT industry to leverage real-time processing and analytics.

Input devices such as touch screen computers, voice recognition and sensors provide the Human Machine Interface for data input.

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