German government and Fraunhofer drive forward plans to implement Industrie 4.0 on an international scale
(WorldNews Germany)

German researchers are in the process of establishing the Industrial Data Space, a virtual construct for secure data sharing based on standardized communication interfaces. Its key feature is data sovereignty: it allows users to monitor and maintain control of their proprietary data, by enabling them to decide who has the right to access these data and for what purpose. The research project, for which the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research has granted funding of five million euros, is now moving on to its second phase, which aims to see this architecture adopted internationally. Data represent a resource of growing strategic importance to businesses in every sector of the...