How Intelligent Sensors Will Make a Difference in Industry 4.0

Dear Colleagues,

The Industry 4.0 standard will change the landscape of all production-based industries. Digitalization and minimization devices will be the key driving factors of future factory concepts, and together with IoT, AI, big data analysis, edge computing, fog computing, and cloud computing, real-time intelligent sensors (including not only monitoring sensors but also modelling, critics, fault detection and isolation, and over the air update algorithms) will open a new era of process control. The aim of real-time intelligent sensor design is to improve performance under uncertain environmental conditions. In order to complete certain tasks without the intervention of any other systems or supervisor (human), these intelligent sensors should be able to adapt to their surroundings when facing different conditions (i.e., external interfere or internal variations in parameters).

We invite researchers to contribute relevant original research papers or comprehensive reviews to this Special Issue on the “How intelligent sensors will make a difference in Industry 4.0”. Your contributions will help to improve and advance the methodologies used to process and analyze systems data. This information can be used to produce new intelligent sensor applications, allowing the formation of solutions integrated with new technologies (with IoT, A.I., big data analysis, edge computing, fog computing, and cloud computing) for use in the implementation of Industry 4.0 in important industrial systems.

Dr. Maysam Abbod
Prof. Dr. Jiann-Shing Shieh
Guest Editors

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