The aim of diploma thesis is to describe and compare different communication protocols that their developers consider Industry 4.0 ready. The main goal of this thesis is to select industry-compatible communication protocols and to determine their suitability for use in Industry 4.0. The first part of the thesis describes the basics of the Industry 4.0, introduces the reference architecture model of the Industry 4.0 and provides an overview of the communication protocol that are supposed to be suitable for use in Industry 4.0. In the second part we designed the concept for testing communication protocols, selected the basics test criteria and five protocols for testing. Chapter four contains tests and their results for all five communication protocols and describes their main advantages and disadvantages. The final part of the thesis presents tests findings and conclusions for tested communication protocols.
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