IoT Quality Assessment and Sustainable Optimization
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 26235
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Industry 4.0 offers a significant opportunity to achieve sustainable industrial value creation on all three dimensions of sustainability: economic, environmental, and social. It can be observed as an integrated, optimized, adaptive, service-oriented, and interoperable manufacturing process that is enabled by algorithms, cloud computing, big data, and high technologies. It supports the integration of the Internet of Things (IoT) within the production process and facilitates new procedures and ways to monitor, manage, achieve, and improve the same production process, as well as automate it. A multidisciplinary approach is required to adopt a comprehensive vision and obtain effective benefits. Several competencies should be involved, such as managers, ergonomics experts, health and safety executives, designers, data analyst, psychologist, etc. Appropriate innovation and engineering approaches should be proposed to promote social sustainability at production sites.
IoT-assisted manufacturing, successfully implemented with a large number of industrial cases, highlights real-time data for production decision models and modeling of intelligent manufacturing objects. Most IoT applications have focused on the field of monitoring that deals with remote sensing of physical and environmental parameters. However, intelligent manufacturing and cloud manufacturing are still in the research or proof-of-concept stage, and they have a limited number of real-world cases. In addition, interdisciplinary research and innovation is needed to provide the basis for the design of appropriate manufacturing environments and workplaces. The balance between cost-effective automation and intelligent use of human capabilities in manufacturing will determine the choice of future production and plant location.
Scopes:
Prospective authors are invited to submit original manuscripts on the topics including, but not limited to, the following:
- Convergence of IoT;
- IoT quality assessment and sustainable optimization;
- IoT technological hardware and software solutions;
- Communication protocols and tools between different IoT devices;
- Database management and IT solutions in the framework of IoT projects;
- IoT for green environment;
- Machine learning accelerators for IoT;
- ICT infrastructure for MaaS (Mobility as a Service);
- Smart grid and energy management;
- Combination of the Internet of Things and Mobile Apps;
- Wireless technologies and Internet of Things (IOT);
- IoT for air quality monitors and waste management;
- Wearable sensors, devices, algorithms, network architecture, and applications for smart health.
Dr. Youseef Alotaibi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Internet of Things (IOT)
- mobile industry
- mobile applications
- remote management
- digital transformation
- artificial intelligence
- machine learning
- IOT and 6G Convergence
- Wireless Net of Things (WNoT)
- Cellular IOT