Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Services at the Edge of a Network for Industrial 4.0

Dear Colleagues,

The Internet of Things (IoT) has transformed industries significantly in many ways, including operating, communicating, data analyzing, and utilizing. The Industrial IoT offers many benefits, including greater energy efficiency, reduced costs, reduced error, predictive maintenance, and improved safety. However, Industrial-IoT-based systems still have challenges. For example, many of them cannot deal with sudden abnormal situations in real time, e.g., when a connection between a gateway and cloud servers is interrupted. In addition, IIoT-based systems do not offer artificial intelligence and smart services for decision making in a real-time manner. These limitations can be mitigated or overcome by exploiting artificial intelligence and smart advanced services at the edge of a network. This Special Issue addresses all the essential aspects that are required to make this happen. We encourage papers in all areas related to (but not limited to) this topic, including system architecture, software architecture, IoT systems and services, edge computing, fog computing, use cases, and edge-AI for Industrial 4.0   

Dr. Tuan Nguyen Gia
Dr. Behailu Negash
Guest Editors

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• Industrial IoT (IIoT)
• Edge computing
• fog computing
• smart Edge services
• edge AI
• Industrial 4.0
• distributed computing