The Application of Industrial Internet of Things in Sustainable Development
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 1413
Special Issue Editor
Interests: industrial internet of things; industry 4.0; interoperability/interoperation; industrial protocols; efficiency increasing solutions in the industry; industrial applications and control; SCADA systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is considered a pillar for sustainable development, covering goals in industrial innovation, decent work and economic growth, clean water and sanitation, responsible production, affordable and clean energy, sustainable cities, climate action, etc. Research and development in the contemporary industrial environment gravitate around improvements in availability, safety, productivity, adaptability, security and material and cost reduction. All improvements start with interoperability, connectivity and information exchange between different industrial entities. The industry needs to connect the physical and digital worlds, considering the foreseen lifecycle of legacy systems, and the new digital links set the required conditions for the emergence of intelligent software solutions that will be capable of implementing improvements, adapting to new requirements and scenarios, and maximizing performances. To increase efficiency, data is analyzed in the context of specific processes with constraints and objectives, dependencies, recipes and strategies are generated, results are applied on models and on real systems.
In this Special Issue, “The Application of Industrial Internet of Things in Sustainable Development”, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Interoperability/interoperation solutions for industrial systems, with emphasis on integrating legacy protocols, middleware applications, but also on new and emerging protocols.
- Efficiency-, performance- and safety-increasing IIoT solutions in industrial areas such as manufacturing, water industry, energy sector, automotive industry, etc. The solutions may aim to reduce consumption (e.g., energy, materials, substances) and resources (e.g., adaptable systems and production lines), to increase quality, improve maintenance, etc.
- Artificial Intelligence in the context of Industry 4.0 and IIoT applications.
- Modern/smart/efficient supervisory process monitoring and control solutions targeting all levels of SCADA solutions, but also Virtual Reality (VR)/ Augmented Reality (AR)/ Mixed Reality (MR) applications in the industry-related context.
- Fog, Edge, and Cloud Computing for IIoT use-cases and industrial applications.
- Real-time IIoT technologies, including Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN).
- Security aspects and solutions in automation and SCADA systems, with emphasis on already-functioning legacy systems.
- Digital Twin.
- IIoT perspective for robots and cobots integration into production lines.
- OT and IT convergence from an IIoT perspective.
Dr. Adrian Korodi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
- industry 4.0
- industrial communication protocols and technologies
- interoperability/interoperation
- artificial intelligence
- fog/edge/cloud computing
- VR/AR/MR in industry
- real-time technologies and applications
- automation and SCADA systems
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