Open and Scalable Industrial IoT with Apache Kafka and 5G Networks

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (also known as Industry 4.0) is the ongoing automation of traditional manufacturing and industrial practices using modern smart technology. Event Streaming with Apache Kafka plays a key role in processing massive volumes of data in real-time in a reliable, scalable, and flexible way of integrating with various legacy and modern data sources and sinks. This blog post explores Apache Kafka’s relationship to modern telco infrastructures that leverage private 5G campus networks for Industrial IoT (IIoT) and edge…