Edge, Fog, and Cloud Computing in Industry 5.0

Abstract

The fourth industrial revolution focused more on increasing automation and real-time oriented control systems in factories by integrating leading-edge technologies lessening human interference. Whereas fifth industry revolution, commonly known as Industry 5.0 is the succeeding stage of industrial revolution, emphasizing human technology along with cutting-edge technologies generate highly customized and environmentally friendly production processes. Industry 5.0 indicates that human working along with robots and smart devices by leveraging cutting-edge technologies like the robotics, Internet of Things (IoT), big data, and AI. Computing paradigms like edge, fog, and cloud computing are essential to Industry 5.0’s success and implementation. Industrial automation requires the ability of data exchange, data processing, data analytics, and decision-making. Edge, fog, and cloud computing along with IoT and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies provide high-performance computing power to achieve this goal. Edge computing allows Industry 5.0 to access and share information about their industries through standard hardware and software resources at network’s edge. The intermediary computing paradigm like fog computing brings networking, stowing, and processing more rapidly to the data source by providing a decentralized computing infrastructure which enlarges the possibilities of cloud computing to the network’s edge. The combination of these above computing paradigms is made possible by cloud computing, resulting in a full ecosystem that improves productivity, creativity, and human-centered operations. This chapter provides a brief idea on the architecture, characteristics, use cases, current state of the art and challenges of edge, fog, and cloud computing in Industry 5.0. © 2025 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.