Efficiency and Security of Process Transparency in Production Networks—A View of Expectations, Obstacles and Potentials

The intelligent industry of the future: A survey on emerging trends, research challenges and opportunities in Industry 4.0

“…Given the generation and aggregation of high volumes of volatile data and sensitive user information, it is clear that there are a multitude of security [22] and privacy challenges caused by sensors and smart devices continuously monitoring the environment. Embedded in the infrastructure and the products themselves, these sensors not only track business and manufacturing processes, but also customer behavior after the production phase, and sometimes in a way that is not visible to them.…”