Industrial electronics play a vital role in improving the efficiency and productivity of the energy, transportation, petroleum, chemical, semiconductor, mining, agriculture, and other industries. As a branch of electronics dealing with power electronic switches, sensors, actuators, meters, intelligent electronic devices (IEDs), automation equipment, semiconductors, nanotechnology, etc., the current emphasis is placed on power conditioning using power semiconductor devices in modernizing industry technology. This Section is devoted to presenting the emerging technologies and trends in the industrial electronics sector, publishing original research and state-of-the-art review articles.

As they are of an open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all the articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2021 listed below: 

1. “Solid-State DC Circuit Breakers and Their Comparison in Modular Multilevel Converter Based-HVDC Transmission System”
by Gul Ahmad Ludin et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(10), 1204; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10101204
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/10/1204

2. “DC Nanogrids for Integration of Demand Response and Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructures: Appraisal, Optimal Scheduling and Analysis”
by Salwan Ali Habeeb et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(20), 2484; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10202484
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/20/2484

3. “Design and Implementation of LoRa Based IoT Scheme for Indonesian Rural Area”
by Setya Widyawan Prakosa et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(1), 77; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10010077
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/1/77

4. “Wind Turbine Operation Curves Modelling Techniques”
by Davide Astolfi
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 269; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030269
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/269

5. “A Simplified Output Feedback Controller for the DC-DC Boost Power Converter”
by Satyajit Chincholkar et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 493; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040493
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/493

6. “Hybrid Workload Enabled and Secure Healthcare Monitoring Sensing Framework in Distributed Fog-Cloud Network”
by Abdullah Lakhan et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(16), 1974; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10161974
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/16/1974

7. “Artificial Intelligence-Based Decision-Making Algorithms, Internet of Things Sensing Networks, and Deep Learning-Assisted Smart Process Management in Cyber-Physical Production Systems”
by Mihai Andronie et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(20), 2497; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10202497
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/20/2497

8. “Advancing Logistics 4.0 with the Implementation of a Big Data Warehouse: A Demonstration Case for the Automotive Industry”
by Nuno Silva et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(18), 2221; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10182221
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/18/2221

9. “Sequence to Point Learning Based on an Attention Neural Network for Nonintrusive Load Decomposition”
by Mingzhi Yang et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(14), 1657; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10141657
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/14/1657

10. “Review on Energy Storage Systems in Microgrids”
by Ramy Georgious et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(17), 2134; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10172134
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/17/2134