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7 Citations
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Research and Design of a Decentralized Edge-Computing-Assisted LoRa Gateway

  • Han Gao,
  • Zhangqin Huang,
  • Xiaobo Zhang and
  • Huapeng Yang

As a narrowband communication technology, long-range (LoRa) contributes to the long development of Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The LoRa gateway plays an important role in the IoT transport layer, and security and efficiency are the key iss...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
12,984 Views
17 Pages

10 November 2019

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are embedded with software, electronics, and sensors, and feature connectivity with constrained resources. They require the edge computing paradigm, with modular characteristics relying on microservices, to provide an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Edge/Fog/Cloud Computing in the Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,041 Views
30 Pages

With the rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT), the necessity for lightweight communication is also increasing due to the constrained capabilities of IoT devices. This paper presents the design of a novel lightweight protocol called the Enh...

(This article belongs to the Section Information and Communication Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,355 Views
20 Pages

An Efficient IIoT Gateway for Cloud–Edge Collaboration in Cloud Manufacturing

  • Yi Zhang,
  • Dunbing Tang,
  • Haihua Zhu,
  • Shihui Zhou and
  • Zhen Zhao

23 September 2022

The cloud manufacturing system can provide consumers with on-demand manufacturing services, which significantly improve the utilization rate of distributed manufacturing resources and the response speed of personalized product needs. In the cloud man...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Manufacturing on Industrial Internet)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,588 Views
19 Pages

9 September 2018

This paper proposes a Lightweight In-Vehicle Edge Gateway (LI-VEG) for the self-diagnosis of an autonomous vehicle, which supports a rapid and accurate communication between in-vehicle sensors and a self-diagnosis module and between in-vehicle protoc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Mechatronics Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,137 Views
23 Pages

15 April 2019

Distributed energy resources (DERs) are being widely interconnected to electrical power grids. The dispersed and intermittent generational mixes bring technical and economic challenges to the power systems in terms of stability, reliability, and inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,604 Views
19 Pages

3 January 2026

The exponential proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) has catalyzed a paradigm shift in industrial automation and smart city infrastructure. However, this rapid expansion has engendered significant heterogeneity in communication protocols, cr...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
627 Views
22 Pages

Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LPWANs) like LoRaWAN enable IoT applications with low-power and long-range characteristics. While LoRaWAN class B mode is server-initiated downlink communication-oriented, its uplink communication, especially in mobile s...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,132 Views
23 Pages

15 September 2021

With the increase in the number of surveillance cameras being deployed globally, an important topic is person re-identification (Re-ID), which identifies the same person from multiple different angles and different directions across multiple cameras....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Embedded IoT: System Design and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
684 Views
30 Pages

1 September 2026

This paper presents the design and experimental characterization of a distributed ESP32/MicroPython edge–cloud sensing system with packet-level latency decomposition. Sensor nodes transmit periodic telemetry to an ESP32 gateway over ESP-NOW; th...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,180 Views
19 Pages

Lightweight Embedded IoT Gateway for Smart Homes Based on an ESP32 Microcontroller

  • Filippos Serepas,
  • Ioannis Papias,
  • Konstantinos Christakis,
  • Nikos Dimitropoulos and
  • Vangelis Marinakis

16 September 2025

The rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) demands scalable, efficient, and user-friendly gateway solutions that seamlessly connect resource-constrained edge devices to cloud services. Low-cost, widely available microcontrollers, such as the...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial IoT)
  • Article
  • Open Access
575 Views
26 Pages

Brownfield industrial systems often contain programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that expose heterogeneous vendor-specific protocols but cannot directly participate in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) data architectures. Replacing these controll...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Robotics, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,343 Views
17 Pages

The complex multi-stage process of meat processing encompasses critical phases, including slaughtering, cooling, cutting, packaging, warehousing, and logistics. The quality and nutritional value of the final meat product are significantly influenced...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
204 Views
31 Pages

16 September 2026

Controller Area Network (CAN) is widely used in in-vehicle communication systems because of its reliability and robustness. However, conventional CAN networks are primarily designed for wired communication and do not directly support wireless access...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
348 Views
17 Pages

8 August 2026

IoT sensor deployments increasingly export measurement streams to edge gateways and content-addressed storage such as IPFS, but access control decisions must be enforced without disclosing sensor owner policies, requester attributes, or stale data ve...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
14,426 Views
24 Pages

18 July 2018

This paper proposes “An Integrated Self-diagnosis System (ISS) for an Autonomous Vehicle based on an Internet of Things (IoT) Gateway and Deep Learning” that collects information from the sensors of an autonomous vehicle, diagnoses itself...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Mechatronics Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,978 Views
13 Pages

15 August 2023

Over the past two decades, there has been a notable and swift advancement in the field of healthcare with regards to the Internet of Things (IoT). This progress has brought forth a substantial prospect for healthcare services to enhance performance,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
10,211 Views
18 Pages

SoC-Based Edge Computing Gateway in the Context of the Internet of Multimedia Things: Experimental Platform

  • Maher Jridi,
  • Thibault Chapel,
  • Victor Dorez,
  • Guénolé Le Bougeant and
  • Antoine Le Botlan

This paper presents an algorithm/architecture and Hardware/Software co-designs for implementing a digital edge computing layer on a Zynq platform in the context of the Internet of Multimedia Things (IoMT). Traditional cloud computing is no longer sui...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Low-Power Electronic Circuits for Monolithic Smart Wireless Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,580 Views
28 Pages

11 December 2024

Multipath transmission in ICN provides high transmission efficiency and stability. In an IP-ICN compatible network environment, unmodified IP terminal devices can access ICN through gateways, benefiting from these performance enhancements. This paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,854 Views
17 Pages

Mitigating Self-Heating in Solid State Drives for Industrial Internet-of-Things Edge Gateways

  • Cristian Zambelli,
  • Lorenzo Zuolo,
  • Luca Crippa,
  • Rino Micheloni and
  • Piero Olivo

Data storage in the Industrial Internet-of-Things scenario presents critical aspects related to the necessity of bringing storage devices closer to the point where data are captured. Concerns on storage temperature are to be considered especially whe...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,890 Views
14 Pages

3 September 2021

With the evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT), edge computing technology is using to process data rapidly increasing from various IoT devices efficiently. Edge computing offloading reduces data processing time and bandwidth usage by processing d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Edge Computing for Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,657 Views
22 Pages

A Flexible Fog Computing Design for Low-Power Consumption and Low Latency Applications

  • Markos Losada,
  • Ainhoa Cortés,
  • Andoni Irizar,
  • Javier Cejudo and
  • Alejandro Pérez

In this paper, we propose a flexible Fog Computing architecture in which the main features are that it allows us to select among two different communication links (WiFi and LoRa) on the fly and offers a low-power solution, thanks to the applied power...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Embedded Computing, Intelligence and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
82 Citations
14,476 Views
16 Pages

Security at the Edge for Resource-Limited IoT Devices

  • Daniele Canavese,
  • Luca Mannella,
  • Leonardo Regano and
  • Cataldo Basile

17 January 2024

The Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly growing, with an estimated 14.4 billion active endpoints in 2022 and a forecast of approximately 30 billion connected devices by 2027. This proliferation of IoT devices has come with significant security challe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging IoT Technologies for Smart Environments, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
898 Views
26 Pages

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) cultivation is highly vulnerable to fungal, bacterial, and viral leaf diseases that can significantly reduce crop yield and fruit quality when not detected at early stages. Although recent deep learning approaches have a...

(This article belongs to the Collection Computer Vision, Deep Learning and Machine Learning with Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,473 Views
13 Pages

This paper presents an embedded gateway architecture that enables the seamless integration of Modbus-based industrial devices into Data Distribution Service (DDS) middleware for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications. The gateway, implemen...

(This article belongs to the Section Information and Communication Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,611 Views
21 Pages

Dynamic Inference Approach Based on Rules Engine in Intelligent Edge Computing for Building Environment Control

  • Wenquan Jin,
  • Rongxu Xu,
  • Sunhwan Lim,
  • Dong-Hwan Park,
  • Chanwon Park and
  • Dohyeun Kim

18 January 2021

Computation offloading enables intensive computational tasks in edge computing to be separated into multiple computing resources of the server to overcome hardware limitations. Deep learning derives the inference approach based on the learning approa...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,856 Views
15 Pages

Embedding Tree-Based Intrusion Detection System in Smart Thermostats for Enhanced IoT Security

  • Abbas Javed,
  • Muhammad Naeem Awais,
  • Ayyaz-ul-Haq Qureshi,
  • Muhammad Jawad,
  • Jehangir Arshad and
  • Hadi Larijani

16 November 2024

IoT devices with limited resources, and in the absence of gateways, become vulnerable to various attacks, such as denial of service (DoS) and man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. Intrusion detection systems (IDS) are designed to detect and respond to th...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,633 Views
37 Pages

IMSC-EIoTD: Identity Management and Secure Communication for Edge IoT Devices

  • Kazi Masum Sadique,
  • Rahim Rahmani and
  • Paul Johannesson

16 November 2020

The Internet of things (IoT) will accommodate several billions of devices to the Internet to enhance human society as well as to improve the quality of living. A huge number of sensors, actuators, gateways, servers, and related end-user applications...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,184 Views
33 Pages

Practical Latency Analysis of a Bluetooth 5 Decentralized IoT Opportunistic Edge Computing System for Low-Cost SBCs

  • Ángel Niebla-Montero,
  • Iván Froiz-Míguez,
  • Paula Fraga-Lamas and
  • Tiago M. Fernández-Caramés

31 October 2022

IoT devices can be deployed almost anywhere, but they usually need to be connected to other IoT devices, either through the Internet or local area networks. For such communications, many IoT devices make use of wireless communications, whose coverage...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,899 Views
22 Pages

Missing Data Imputation in Internet of Things Gateways

  • Cinthya M. França,
  • Rodrigo S. Couto and
  • Pedro B. Velloso

17 October 2021

In an Internet of Things (IoT) environment, sensors collect and send data to application servers through IoT gateways. However, these data may be missing values due to networking problems or sensor malfunction, which reduces applications’ reliability...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wireless Edge Computing: Enabling Technologies for the Next Generation of Cloud Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,399 Views
40 Pages

Edge AI Bridge: A Micro-Layer Intrusion Detection Architecture for Smart-City IoT Networks

  • Sethu Subramanian N,
  • Prabu P,
  • Kurunandan Jain and
  • Prabhakar Krishnan

16 April 2026

Smart-city IoT ecosystems depend on a large number of devices with limited resources, which often lack built-in security mechanisms. While traditional cloud-based or gateway-centric intrusion detection systems (IDSs) offer essential security, they ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,279 Views
24 Pages

Performance Evaluation of a Mesh-Topology LoRa Network

  • Thomas Gerhardus Durand and
  • Marthinus Johannes Booysen

5 March 2025

Research into, and the usage of, Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LPWANs) has increased significantly to support the ever-expanding requirements set by IoT applications. Specifically, the usage of Long-Range Wide-Area Networks (LoRaWANs) has increased,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue LoRa Communication Technology for IoT Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,408 Views
23 Pages

Butterfly: μW Level ULP Sensor Nodes with High Task Throughput

  • Chong Zhang,
  • Li Lu,
  • Yihang Song,
  • Qianhe Meng,
  • Junqin Zhang,
  • Xiandong Shao,
  • Guangyuan Zhang and
  • Mengshu Hou

17 April 2022

The rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT) applications calls for light-weight IoT sensor nodes with both low-power consumption and excellent task execution efficiency. However, in the existing system framework, designers must make trade-offs...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Trustworthy Sensing with Human-and-Environment-in-the-Loop)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,425 Views
14 Pages

EdgeX over Kubernetes: Enabling Container Orchestration in EdgeX

  • Seunghwan Lee,
  • Linh-An Phan,
  • Dae-Heon Park,
  • Sehan Kim and
  • Taehong Kim

23 December 2021

With the exponential growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), edge computing is in the limelight for its ability to quickly and efficiently process numerous data generated by IoT devices. EdgeX Foundry is a representative open-source-based IoT gateway...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Edge Computing Applications in IoT)
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
4,363 Views
15 Pages

Blockchain Empowered Federated Learning Ecosystem for Securing Consumer IoT Features Analysis

  • Abdullah Alghamdi,
  • Jiang Zhu,
  • Guocai Yin,
  • Mohammad Shorfuzzaman,
  • Nawal Alsufyani,
  • Sultan Alyami and
  • Sujit Biswas

8 September 2022

Resource constraint Consumer Internet of Things (CIoT) is controlled through gateway devices (e.g., smartphones, computers, etc.) that are connected to Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) servers or cloud regulated by a third party. Recently Machine Learning...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
974 Views
33 Pages

12 August 2026

A control that cannot be audited is a control that does not yet exist operationally. Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Internet of Things (IoT) devices in Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) environments expose this problem sharply: they export raw behaviour...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Internet of Things (IoT) and Its Application in Monitoring: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
16,765 Views
30 Pages

Autonomous Underwater Monitoring System for Detecting Life on the Seabed by Means of Computer Vision Cloud Services

  • Marouane Salhaoui,
  • J. Carlos Molina-Molina,
  • Antonio Guerrero-González,
  • Mounir Arioua and
  • Francisco J. Ortiz

19 June 2020

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have increasingly played a key role in monitoring the marine environment, studying its physical-chemical parameters for the supervision of endangered species. AUVs now include a power source and an intelligent co...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
598 Views
40 Pages

Intelligent Maintenance and Routing Decision Making for UAV Clusters in Harsh Environments

  • Sujunjie Sun,
  • Cong Cao,
  • Yan Lyu,
  • Xueyong Xu,
  • Renzhi Huang,
  • Yuhang Xu,
  • Shenquan Tang,
  • Chenchen Fu and
  • Weiwei Wu

10 June 2026

UAV clusters operating in harsh environments must maintain connectivity under sudden node failures and dynamic traffic demands. Existing studies often address maintenance and routing separately, which leads to unnecessary reorganization overhead and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
9,254 Views
22 Pages

Application and Research of IoT Architecture for End-Net-Cloud Edge Computing

  • Yongqiang Zhang,
  • Hongchang Yu,
  • Wanzhen Zhou and
  • Menghua Man

At the edge of the network close to the source of the data, edge computing deploys computing, storage and other capabilities to provide intelligent services in close proximity and offers low bandwidth consumption, low latency and high security. It sa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Internet of Things (IoT): Sensing Techniques, Hardware, and Software Architectures for the Next Generation Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
9,060 Views
26 Pages

A Fog Computing Based Cyber-Physical System for the Automation of Pipe-Related Tasks in the Industry 4.0 Shipyard

  • Tiago M. Fernández-Caramés,
  • Paula Fraga-Lamas,
  • Manuel Suárez-Albela and
  • Manuel A. Díaz-Bouza

17 June 2018

Pipes are one of the key elements in the construction of ships, which usually contain between 15,000 and 40,000 of them. This huge number, as well as the variety of processes that may be performed on a pipe, require rigorous identification, quality a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Networks and Systems to Enable Industry 4.0 Environments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,816 Views
26 Pages

19 March 2023

To address issues in discrete manufacturing workshops, such as the difficulty for management personnel to coordinate workshop production and the challenge of visualizing and supervising a massive amount of temporary data, this paper proposes a servic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Manufacturing Systems for Industry 5.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,449 Views
15 Pages

Enhancing Extensive and Remote LoRa Deployments through MEC-Powered Drone Gateways

  • Jorge Gallego-Madrid,
  • Alejandro Molina-Zarca,
  • Ramon Sanchez-Iborra,
  • Jorge Bernal-Bernabe,
  • José Santa,
  • Pedro Miguel Ruiz and
  • Antonio F. Skarmeta-Gómez

23 July 2020

The distribution of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in remote areas and the need for network resilience in such deployments is increasingly important in smart spaces covering scenarios, such as agriculture, forest, coast preservation, and connectivi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cloud and Edge Computing for the Next Generation of Internet of Things Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
121 Citations
13,893 Views
39 Pages

A Practical Evaluation of a High-Security Energy-Efficient Gateway for IoT Fog Computing Applications

  • Manuel Suárez-Albela,
  • Tiago M. Fernández-Caramés,
  • Paula Fraga-Lamas and
  • Luis Castedo

29 August 2017

Fog computing extends cloud computing to the edge of a network enabling new Internet of Things (IoT) applications and services, which may involve critical data that require privacy and security. In an IoT fog computing system, three elements can be d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Networks for Collaborative and Secure Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
8,477 Views
23 Pages

IoT Registration and Authentication in Smart City Applications with Blockchain

  • Célio Márcio Soares Ferreira,
  • Charles Tim Batista Garrocho,
  • Ricardo Augusto Rabelo Oliveira,
  • Jorge Sá Silva and
  • Carlos Frederico Marcelo da Cunha Cavalcanti

13 February 2021

The advent of 5G will bring a massive adoption of IoT devices across our society. IoT Applications (IoT Apps) will be the primary data collection base. This scenario leads to unprecedented scalability and security challenges, with one of the first ar...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,045 Views
27 Pages

Low-Latency DDoS Detection for IIoT and SCADA Networks Using Proximal Policy Optimisation and Deep Reinforcement Learning

  • Mikiyas Alemayehu,
  • Mohamed Chahine Ghanem,
  • Hamza Kheddar,
  • Dipo Dunsin,
  • Chaker Abdelaziz Kerrache and
  • Geetanjali Rathee

26 April 2026

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and SCADA-connected networks are increasingly vulnerable to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, which can disrupt time-sensitive industrial processes and compromise operational continuity. Effective miti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Reinforcement Learning for Cyber Security: Methods and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,579 Views
21 Pages

An IoT-Based Solution for Monitoring and Controlling Battery Energy Storage Systems at Residential and Commercial Levels

  • Alessandro Burgio,
  • Domenico Cimmino,
  • Andrea Nappo,
  • Luigi Smarrazzo and
  • Giuseppe Donatiello

30 March 2023

Today, increasing numbers of batteries are installed in residential and commercial buildings; by coordinating their operation, it is possible to favor both the exploitation of renewable sources and the safe operation of electricity grids. However, ho...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Renewable Energy Systems for Energy Communities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
8,758 Views
16 Pages

31 August 2019

This paper is concerned with the implementation and field-testing of an edge device for real-time condition monitoring and fault detection for large-scale rotating equipment in the UK water industry. The edge device implements a local digital twin, p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Edge/Fog/Cloud Computing in the Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,157 Views
30 Pages

10 June 2026

Poor indoor air quality, inadequate ventilation, and unnoticed local disturbances can reduce occupant well-being and compromise practical safety in smart-home and small-building environments. Although low-cost Internet-of-Things (IoT) sensing technol...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced IoT Systems in Smart Cities: 3rd Edition)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,907 Views
7 Pages

14 November 2020

Condition monitoring (CM) is an important application in industry for detecting machine failures in an incipient stage. Based on sensor data, computational intelligence methods provide efficient solutions for the analysis of high dimensional process...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 7th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,693 Views
8 Pages

Resource Management Techniques for the Internet of Things, Edge, and Fog Computing Environments

  • Koushik Chakraborty,
  • Manmohan Sharma,
  • Krishnaveni Kommuri,
  • Voore Subrahmanyam,
  • Pratap Patil and
  • Manmohan Singh Yadav

A speculative exhibit for distributed computing organizations is implied as a haze of mists joining different parceled mists into a solitary fluid mass for on-request tasks. Fundamentally put, the mist between clouds would ensure that a cloud could u...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of Eng. Proc., 2023, RAiSE-2023)

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