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Cyber Risk in the Industrial Internet of Things

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 November 2021) | Viewed by 4212

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Pete Burnap

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School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK
Interests: security and protection; human-centered computing; modeling structured, textual and multimedia data; data mining; machine learning

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The next generation of industrial systems is going to be data-driven. Sensor data driven by the Internet of Things, both inside and outside of factories, will provide a digital thread connecting the factory floor with its products and customers. These “chatty” factories present immense opportunities for innovation, from improving products based on their use, to digital twins that fuse product redesign with intelligent re-manufacturing, all connected via industrial optimisation, and relationships between intelligent robotics and their human counterparts that are yet to be determined.

The opportunities are clear. However, with digital innovation comes inherent cyber risk. Sensor data from the wild can only be used if it flows into decision-making processes linked to industrial modernisation. How do we know that the integrity of sensor data is not being corrupted, either deliberately or otherwise? What are the cyber risks to digital twins and how could these impact industrial elements of new production processes? How do we ensure that data-driven decisions are transparent and auditable? Will the convergence of technology in the wild with traditionally isolated operational technology prove too high-risk for widespread adoption?

This Special Issue aims to provide a forum for the discussion of both opportunity and cyber risk arising from data-driven industrial Internet of Things, with a key focus on the critical factors that will both enable and restrict adoption.

Prof. Dr. Pete Burnap
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Internet of Things
  • Smart sensors
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cyber risk
  • Digital twins
  • Manufacturing

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Unsupervised Learning for Product Use Activity Recognition: An Exploratory Study of a “Chatty Device”
by Mike Lakoju, Nemitari Ajienka, M. Ahmadieh Khanesar, Pete Burnap and David T. Branson
Sensors 2021, 21(15), 4991; https://doi.org/10.3390/s21154991 - 22 Jul 2021
Cited by 12 | Viewed by 3449
Abstract
To create products that are better fit for purpose, manufacturers require new methods for gaining insights into product experience in the wild at scale. “Chatty Factories” is a concept that explores the transformative potential of placing IoT-enabled data-driven systems at the core of [...] Read more.
To create products that are better fit for purpose, manufacturers require new methods for gaining insights into product experience in the wild at scale. “Chatty Factories” is a concept that explores the transformative potential of placing IoT-enabled data-driven systems at the core of design and manufacturing processes, aligned to the Industry 4.0 paradigm. In this paper, we propose a model that enables new forms of agile engineering product development via “chatty” products. Products relay their “experiences” from the consumer world back to designers and product engineers through the mediation provided by embedded sensors, IoT, and data-driven design tools. Our model aims to identify product “experiences” to support the insights into product use. To this end, we create an experiment to: (i) collect sensor data at 100 Hz sampling rate from a “Chatty device” (device with sensors) for six common everyday activities that drive produce experience: standing, walking, sitting, dropping and picking up of the device, placing the device stationary on a side table, and a vibrating surface; (ii) pre-process and manually label the product use activity data; (iii) compare a total of four Unsupervised Machine Learning models (three classic and the fuzzy C-means algorithm) for product use activity recognition for each unique sensor; and (iv) present and discuss our findings. The empirical results demonstrate the feasibility of applying unsupervised machine learning algorithms for clustering product use activity. The highest obtained F-measure is 0.87, and MCC of 0.84, when the Fuzzy C-means algorithm is applied for clustering, outperforming the other three algorithms applied. Full article
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