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immense business value it can provide . These benefits include :
● Gaining data-driven insights from IoT data to help better manage the organisation ;
● Increasing the productivity and efficiency of business operations ;
● Developing new business models and revenue streams ; and
● Easily and smoothly integrating the physical business environment to the digital world to accelerate time to value . technologies , machine learning , and big data to create a more holistic and better-linked ecosystem for manufacturing and supply chain management organisations . While each company and organisation is unique , they all confront the same challenge : the need for connectivity and access to real-time insights across processes , partners , products , and people .
Prior to Industry 4.0 , there were historical stages of industrial revolutions that resulted in paradigm shifts in the manufacturing domain : mechanisation via water and steam power , mass production via assembly lines , and automation via information technology , as seen in Figure 2 and Table 1 .
JKR TOWARDS IR 4.0 AND IoT CHALLENGES
Figure 1 : Industry 4.0
Figure 1 depicts the term Industry 4.0 ( IR 4.0 ), which refers to a new phase of the Industrial Revolution that places a strong emphasis on interconnectivity , automation , machine learning , and real-time data . Industry 4.0 , also known as IoT or smart manufacturing , combines physical production and operations with smart digital
Jabatan Kerja Raya ( JKR ) Malaysia or the Public Works Department founded in 1872 is responsible for the development and maintenance of Malaysian public infrastructure such as public Government offices , schools , hospitals , police and army facilities , ports and airports , has gone through three stages of the Industrial Revolution . Under Theme 5 : Innovative Organisation of the JKR Strategic Framework 2021-2025 , JKR is driving engineering towards IR 4.0 and IoT to enable improved service delivery for the public and the country .
JKR developed the Smart Traffic Management system to improve existing traffic management systems by enhancing system monitoring of traffic
Figure 2 : Revolution of Industry
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