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Virtual Sensors for Industry 4.0 Era

This special issue belongs to the section “Industrial Sensors“.

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Dear Colleagues,

The objective of this Special Issue is to highlight the different possibilities offered by Industry 4.0, such as Digital Twin or industrial Big Data to define virtual sensors that allow parameters of industrial lines to be measured, either to be able to carry out predictive maintenance, the quality of parts, etc., which would otherwise be too expensive due to the need to install a large number of sensors, or simply because there are no sensors to measure such parameters.

Prof. Dr. Nicolás Montés
Prof. Dr. Francisco Chinesta
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • virtual sensors
  • Industry 4.0
  • Industrial Big Data
  • Digital Twin
  • Hybrid Twin
  • predictive maintenance
  • quality inspection

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