Emerging Paradigms and Architectures for Industry 5.0 Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The Fifth Industrial Revolution (5IR), called “Industry 5.0” in Europe, complements the existing Industry 4.0 paradigm by driving the transition to a sustainable, human-centered and resilient industry.

5IR-enabling technologies such as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), industrial cyber–physical systems (ICPSs), novel computing paradigms (fog, mist and edge computing), digital twin, augmented/mixed reality, and distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) like blockchain or advanced wireless sensor networks, can enable novel cyber-secure, resilient, collaborative and human-centric computing and communications architectures to improve manufacturing processes in diverse aspects related to data collection, data communications, storage, authentication, reliability, scalability, communications latency, energy efficiency, standardization, interoperability, mobility or security.

This Special Issue aims to report the latest advances in architectures, paradigms and applications in the ever-increasing complex ecosystem of green smart manufacturing. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following challenges, visions and concepts for Industry 5.0:

• Novel architectures for the Green Industrial Internet of Things (GIIoT);
• Industrial applications of the Green Internet of Things (GIoT) such as green manufacturing, agile manufacturing, predictive maintenance and zero-defect production;
• Novel network infrastructures for IIoT;
• IIoT data analytics, data aggregation, data abstraction and event detection;
• Cybersecurity in IIoT environments;
• Cognitive IIoT;
• Cloud, fog, mist, edge and mobile edge computing architectures for industrial scenarios;
• Industrial cyber–physical systems (ICPSs);
• Advances in the application of distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) (e.g., Blockchain, IOTA) to industrial scenarios;
• Industrial wireless sensor networks;
• Low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technologies (e.g., LoRa, SigFox, NB-IoT) for Industry 5.0 applications;
• Localization and tracking technologies for Industry 5.0;
• Energy-harvesting techniques for industrial scenarios;
• Advanced sensors for Industry 5.0 applications;
• Novel sensing strategies for process monitoring and product traceability;
• Human–machine interfaces and interactions in human-centric smart industrial systems;
• Green machine learning and artificial intelligence for Industry 5.0;
• Digital twins.

Prof. Dr. Paula Fraga-Lamas
Prof. Dr. Tiago M. Fernández-Caramés
Prof. Dr. Sérgio Ivan Lopes
Guest Editors

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