Artificial Neural Networks for IoT-Enabled Smart Applications

Dear Colleagues,

In the age of neural networks and the Internet of Things (IoT), the search for new neural network architectures capable of operating on devices with limited computing power and small memory size is becoming an urgent agenda. Various artificial intelligence (AI) applications in the IoT field include smart healthcare services, smart agriculture, smart environment monitoring, smart exploration, and smart disaster rescue. Traditionally, such applications operate in real time. For example, security camera-based object-recognition tasks operate with detection intervals of 500 ms to capture and respond to target events. Data processing of human health and physiological parameters from different sensors (heartrate monitoring, glucose monitoring, oxygen saturation, etc.) generally requires immediate processing. Often, commercial smart IoT devices transfer information to the cloud for subsequent intelligent processing. However, stable network connections are not available everywhere, which is a limitation for meeting real-time requirements. The solution to this problem can be the execution of information processing using neural networks installed directly on IoT devices. In this case, the quality of the Internet connection would not have a significant impact. Enabling artificial intelligence directly on the device is difficult due to the limited computing power and small memory size of IoT devices. Frequently, smart applications need to run on a lightweight OS with a minimal set of libraries, which imposes limitations on the operation of resource-intensive neural networks.

AI technologies for IoT devices and edge computing are demanded in mobile healthcare (m-Health), as well as in close application domains. Ambient intelligence (AmI) environments are constructed in IoT environments to provide smart services for people based on real-time analysis of human cognitive and motion functions. Examples include but are not limited to:

• At-home labs for people to make medical observations and analysis during everyday life, not in specific and limited conditions of a professional medical lab at hospital;
• Applications for Industrial Internet when real-time monitoring of human movement and health parameters supports detection of dangerous situations and incorrect activity in technological operation;
• Tactile Internet with its demand in bionic applications when a person can “touch and perceive” distant physical objects or even virtual (digital) objects through the Internet.

This Special Issue is dedicated to recent developments in the constantly growing application field of computing technologies and artificial intelligence algorithms and includes new approaches to the organization of artificial intelligence on peripheral devices, organization of modular, feed forward, distributed, reservoir, recurrent, convolutional and deep neural networks for various IoT-enabled smart applications.

Dr. Andrei Velichko
Prof. Dr. Dmitry Korzun
Dr. Alexander Meigal
Guest Editors

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