Smart Sensors in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)

Dear Colleagues,

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is not a matter of hype anymore—it has matured into a highly successful technology that many modern digital-based companies utilize to rapidly expand their businesses. The IIoT provides instant real-time data that are crucial for agile decision making. It supports the whole lifecycle of a product, from its design and make to its use, service, and remanufacture. IIoT connects the user with the product and the business through technical and financial information. It also establishes emotional as well as immersive links between user and product. Advanced meshed networks of smart sensors and tailored cloud services are the means that deliver the right data at the right time to allow for rapid decision making for more adaptive, agile, and scalable services that make the difference for companies that address the needs of their customers.

This Special Issue is dedicated to interdisciplinary research that makes IIoT the powerful tool it is today. It is calling for cutting-edge contributions to fundamental research that enables IIoT as well as groundbreaking applications of research of industrial smart sensors in industry. This Special Issue covers but is not limited to the following topics:

• Smart Sensors with Edge AI
• IIoT networks and meshes
• Wearables for IIoT
• Robotics and IIoT
• Smart IIoT services
• New business models based on IIoT
• Industrial applications of IIoT
• Security and trust in IIoT
• Mixed realities and IIoT
• Digital manufacturing
• Device-to-cloud IIoT solutions
• Intelligent sensing for IIoT

Both review articles and original research papers are solicited.

Prof. Jorn Mehnen
Prof. Weidong Li
Prof. Xifan Yao
Dr. Hongmei He
Guest Editors

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