Industrial electronics plays a vital role in improving the efficiency and productivity of industries like energy, transportation, petroleum, chemical, semiconductor, mining, agriculture, and others. As a branch of electronics dealing with power electronic switches, sensors, actuators, meters, intelligent electronic devices (IEDs), automation equipment, semiconductors, nanotechnology, etc., current emphasis is placed on power conditioning using power semiconductor devices in modernizing industry technology. This Section of the journal Electronics (ISSN: 2079-9292) 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 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 below:

1. “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, George Lăzăroiu, Mariana Iatagan, Cristian Uță, Roxana Ștefănescu and Mădălina Cocoșatu
Electronics 2021, 10(20), 2497; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10202497
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/20/2497

2. “Smart Manufacturing and Tactile Internet Based on 5G in Industry 4.0: Challenges, Applications and New Trends”
by Dimitris Mourtzis, John Angelopoulos and Nikos Panopoulos
Electronics 2021, 10(24), 3175; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10243175
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/24/3175

3. “Solid-State DC Circuit Breakers and Their Comparison in Modular Multilevel Converter Based-HVDC Transmission System”
by Gul Ahmad Ludin, Mohammad Amin Amin, Hidehito Matayoshi, Shriram S. Rangarajan, Ashraf M. Hemeida, Hiroshi Takahashi and Tomonobu Senjyu
Electronics 2021, 10(10), 1204; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10101204
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/10/1204

4. “Review on Energy Storage Systems in Microgrids”
by Ramy Georgious, Rovan Refaat, Jorge Garcia and Ahmed A. Daoud
Electronics 2021, 10(17), 2134; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10172134
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/17/2134

5. “DC Nanogrids for Integration of Demand Response and Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructures: Appraisal, Optimal Scheduling and Analysis”
by Salwan Ali Habeeb, Marcos Tostado-Véliz, Hany M. Hasanien, Rania A. Turky, Wisam Kaream Meteab and Francisco Jurado
Electronics 2021, 10(20), 2484; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10202484
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/20/2484

6. “Discrete Human Activity Recognition and Fall Detection by Combining FMCW RADAR Data of Heterogeneous Environments for Independent Assistive Living”
by Umer Saeed, Syed Yaseen Shah, Syed Aziz Shah, Jawad Ahmad, Abdullah Alhumaidi Alotaibi, Turke Althobaiti, Naeem Ramzan, Akram Alomainy and Qammer H. Abbasi
Electronics 2021, 10(18), 2237; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10182237
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/18/2237

7. “Hybrid Workload Enabled and Secure Healthcare Monitoring Sensing Framework in Distributed Fog-Cloud Network”
by Abdullah Lakhan, Qurat-ul-ain Mastoi, Mazhar Ali Dootio, Fehaid Alqahtani, Ibrahim R. Alzahrani, Fatmah Baothman, Syed Yaseen Shah, Syed Aziz Shah, Nadeem Anjum, Qammer Hussain Abbasi et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(16), 1974; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10161974
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/16/1974

8. “IoT Security Challenges: Cloud and Blockchain, Postquantum Cryptography, and Evolutionary Techniques”
by Ondrej Gallo, Roderik Ploszek, Peter Špaček and Pavol Zajac
Electronics 2021, 10(21), 2647; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10212647
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/21/2647

9. “Design and Implementation of LoRa Based IoT Scheme for Indonesian Rural Area”
by Setya Widyawan Prakosa, Muhamad Faisal, Yudhi Adhitya, Jenq-Shiou Leu, Mario Köppen and Cries Avian
Electronics 2021, 10(1), 77; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10010077
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/1/77

10. “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