Sensors and Real Time Systems for IIoT
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2023) | Viewed by 29126
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Industrial Internet of Things; Smart Cities; data acquisition; distributed systems; embedded systems; FPGA systems; software architecture
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: real time systems; embedded systems; Industrial Internet of Things; fieldbuses; operating systems
Interests: RFID systems; antenna design; impedance matching circuits; and wireless communication (ZigBee, Bluetooth, LoRa, SigFox, and the NB-IoT)
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, with the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) concept, the term Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has been defined for the use of IoT in an industrial environment. Industrial Internet of Things is a subset of the Internet of Things that it used to achieve an efficient and intelligent manufacturing process. The IIoT uses intelligent sensors, sensors network (fieldbuses), and embedded systems with hard and soft real-time capabilities in order to provide services to the business processes and personnel. The main challenges in the development of IIoT solutions are hard real-time requirements for industrial filed, new network capabilities, scalability, manageability, security, and the large number of fieldbuses used in the industrial field.
This Special Issue requests the submission of high-quality and original papers that aim to solve the open technical problems and challenges typical of the real-time systems based on intelligent sensors used for IIoT. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
- New trends in real-time systems, Intelligent sensors and IIoT
- New paradigms, concepts and architectures
- Sensor networks and smart computing
- Heterogeneous IIoT networks
- Cellular IoT technologies (NB-IoT, LTE Cat-M1)
- Middleware, architectures, and protocols for IIoT
- 5G for IIoT
- LPWAN for IIoT (Sigfox, LoRa, NB-FI, etc.)
- Fog/edge computing for IIoT
- Fieldbuses and IIoT
- Intelligent IIoT management and networking services
- Trustworthiness, security, and privacy for IIoT
- Real-time systems for IIoT
- Intelligent sensors for IIoT
- Applications and examples of use
Prof. Dr. Ioan Ungurean
Prof. Dr. Adrian-Ioan Petrariu
Guest Editors
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