Industry 4.0 promises $ trillions in value creation, but this requires truly decentralized mesh networks, where devices connect directly with each other and communicate in real-time with high security and low latency. Efforts have been made along these lines previously by taking a bunch of little centers and distributing around the system. Not only is this formidable from a deployment and management perspective, but this only takes an existing problem and distributes it.
Once everything can securely communicate in real time with anything else point-to-point, true decentralization becomes a possibility and the business opportunities are infinite. This is a new era in technology, networks and automated and smart functionality.