Search for Articles:
Title / Keyword
Author / Affiliation / Email
Journal
Article Type
 
 
Advanced Search
 
Section
Special Issue
Volume
Issue
Number
Page
 
4.7
2.9
Journals
Electronics
Special Issues
Advanced Monitoring, Automation and Smart Technologies in Industrial 4.0 Era:...
share announcement

Advanced Monitoring, Automation and Smart Technologies in Industrial 4.0 Era: Trends and Applications

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Industrial Electronics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 February 2024) | Viewed by 4798

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Isaías González Pérez

E-Mail
Guest Editor
Department of Electrical, Electronical and Automatic Engineering, School of Industrial Engineering, University of Extremadura, Avda de Elvas s/n, 06006 Badajoz, Spain
Interests: smart grids and microgrids; renewable energy; industrial control and automation; monitoring and supervision; Industry 4.0
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Dr. Antonio José Calderón Godoy

E-Mail
Guest Editor
Department of Electrical, Electronical and Automatic Engineering, School of Industrial Engineering, University of Extremadura, Avda de Elvas s/n, 06006 Badajoz, Spain
Interests: smart grids and microgrids; renewable energy; intelligent control; industrial control and automation; monitoring and supervision; Industry 4.0
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The rise and development of the Industry 4.0 paradigm and technologies related to the Internet of Things (IoT) have led to significant advances in all sectors. Regarding the industrial field, IoT applications are referred to as the Industrial Internet of things (IIoT), which are tailored toward the interconnectivity of devices, systems, processes, etc. This Special Issue is primarily focused on the advancements and innovations in this context on topics, such as automation, monitoring and supervision, smart technologies and IoT applications. For instance, novel approaches, involving modern automation and control approaches; open IoT platforms; or building digital replicas (also called digital twins) constitute the current trends.

We invite the submission of high-quality manuscripts from researchers, engineers, and industry professionals for publication in this Special Issue. The manuscripts should be unpublished and present significant research advances, while the key criterion for paper acceptance is innovation. Manuscripts that present experimental proofs, results and lessons learned are strongly encouraged. Review papers on the state-of-the-art advances of different topics related to Industry 4.0 are also welcome. The main topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Industry 4.0;
  • Industrial Internet and Industrial Internet of Things;
  • Prognosis, predictive maintenance, condition monitoring and fault diagnosis;
  • Remote access, cybersecurity and privacy in Industry 4.0 environments;
  • Advanced sensors and wired/wireless sensor networks for Industry 4.0;
  • Gateways and fog/edge/cloud computing for Industry 4.0;
  • Machine learning, artificial and computational intelligence for industry 4.0;
  • Industrial big data, aggregation and analytics;
  • Digitalization, virtualization and simulation of processes, and digital twins;
  • Low-cost, open-source and IoT technologies for applications in automation;
  • Interoperability and convergence of OT/IT in Industry 4.0;
  • SCADA systems, real-time monitoring and HMI/GUI for Industry 4.0;
  • Smart manufacturing and industrial cyber–physical systems (ICPS);
  • Middleware, architectures, fieldbuses and communication protocols;
  • Applications and use cases (smart factories, smart grids/microgrids, smart cities, smart and digital agriculture, Industry 4.0-oriented education, etc.).

Technical Program Committee Members:

Mr. Francisco Javier Folgado Gaspar  University of Extremadura, Spain

Dr. Isaías González Pérez
Dr. Antonio José Calderón Godoy
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Electronics is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Industry 4.0
  • artificial intelligence
  • interoperability
  • automation
  • monitoring
  • digital twin
  • prognosis and diagnosis
  • control technology
  • cloud/edge computing
  • open-source technologies
  • Industrial Internet of Things
  • industrial cyber–physical systems (ICPS)
  • industrial sensor networks

Published Papers (2 papers)

Download All Papers
Order results
Result details
Show export options expand_more Show export options expand_less
Select all
Export citation of selected articles as:

Research

Jump to: Review

19 pages, 12592 KiB  
Article
Modular Open-Source Design of Pyrolysis Reactor Monitoring and Control Electronics
by Finn K. Hafting, Daniel Kulas, Etienne Michels, Sarvada Chipkar, Stefan Wisniewski, David Shonnard and Joshua M. Pearce
Electronics 2023, 12(24), 4893; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12244893 - 05 Dec 2023
Viewed by 1426
Abstract
Industrial pilot projects often rely on proprietary and expensive electronic hardware to control and monitor experiments. This raises costs and retards innovation. Open-source hardware tools exist for implementing these processes individually; however, they are not easily integrated with other designs. The Broadly Reconfigurable [...] Read more.
Industrial pilot projects often rely on proprietary and expensive electronic hardware to control and monitor experiments. This raises costs and retards innovation. Open-source hardware tools exist for implementing these processes individually; however, they are not easily integrated with other designs. The Broadly Reconfigurable and Expandable Automation Device (BREAD) is a framework that provides many open-source devices which can be connected to create more complex data acquisition and control systems. This article explores the feasibility of using BREAD plug-and-play open hardware to quickly design and test monitoring and control electronics for an industrial materials processing prototype pyrolysis reactor. Generally, pilot-scale pyrolysis plants are expensive custom designed systems. The plug-and-play prototype approach was first tested by connecting it to the pyrolysis reactor and ensuring that it can measure temperature and actuate heaters and a stirring motor. Next, a single circuit board system was created and tested using the designs from the BREAD prototype to reduce the number of microcontrollers required. Both open-source control systems were capable of reliably running the pyrolysis reactor continuously, achieving equivalent performance to a state-of-the-art commercial controller with a ten-fold reduction in the overall cost of control. Open-source, plug-and-play hardware provides a reliable avenue for researchers to quickly develop data acquisition and control electronics for industrial-scale experiments. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Monitoring, Automation and Smart Technologies in Industrial 4.0 Era: Trends and Applications)
►▼ Show Figures

Figure 1

Review

Jump to: Research

12 pages, 568 KiB  
Review
Virtual Assistants in Industry 4.0: A Systematic Literature Review
by Rodrigo Pereira, Claudio Lima, Tiago Pinto and Arsénio Reis
Electronics 2023, 12(19), 4096; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12194096 - 29 Sep 2023
Cited by 1 | Viewed by 2697
Abstract
Information and Communication Technologies are driving the improvement of industrial processes. According to the Industry 4.0 (I4.0) paradigm, digital systems provide real-time information to humans and machines, increasing flexibility and efficiency in production environments. Based on the I4.0 Design Principles concept, Virtual Assistants [...] Read more.
Information and Communication Technologies are driving the improvement of industrial processes. According to the Industry 4.0 (I4.0) paradigm, digital systems provide real-time information to humans and machines, increasing flexibility and efficiency in production environments. Based on the I4.0 Design Principles concept, Virtual Assistants can play a vital role in processing production data and offer contextualized and real-time information to the workers in the production environment. This systematic review paper explored Virtual Assistant applications in the context of I4.0, discussing the Technical Assistance Design Principle and identifying the characteristics, services, and limitations regarding Virtual Assistant use in the production environments. The results showed that Virtual Assistants offer Physical and Virtual Assistance. Virtual Assistance provides real-time contextualized information mainly for support, while Physical Assistance is oriented toward task execution. Regarding services, the applications include integration with legacy systems and static information treatment. The limitations of the applications incorporate concerns about information security and adapting to noisy and unstable environments. It is possible to assume that the terminology of Virtual Assistants is not standardized and is mentioned as chatbots, robots, and others. Besides the worthy insights of this research, the small number of resulting papers did not allow for generalizations. Future research should focus on broadening the search scope to provide more-significant conclusions and research possibilities with new AI models and services, including the emergent Industry 5.0 concept. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Monitoring, Automation and Smart Technologies in Industrial 4.0 Era: Trends and Applications)
►▼ Show Figures

Figure 1

Show export options expand_more Show export options expand_less
Select all
Export citation of selected articles as:
 
Displaying articles 1-2
Back to TopTop