Editorial: Advanced Industrial Networks with IoT and Big Data

Excerpt

Internet of Thing (IoT) has the potential to deliver exciting things across many sectors, from industry to social media and home. These networks of things are designed to measure real-world events and expected to control more than two billion connected devices to the internet by 2020. Due to the advantage of low-cost, easy to deploy, energy efficiency and mobility compared to the traditionally applied field bus, industrial wireless sensor network has become a promising approach for manufactures as well as plant designers. With the paradigm of IoT, Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks (IWSNs) are evolving to the global interconnection between management and factory products in the large-scale industry. It serves as a link between data collected from heterogeneous sources on site and business backend. Recently, IWSN integrated with IoT and Big Data is an attractive choice for industrial processes. The large-scale industry consists of dense wireless devices such as RFID tags for machine identification, sensors used for large-scale rotational equipment monitoring and fault diagnosis and many more. With the data acquisition across heterogeneous sources and intelligent processing of gathered data, one important aspect is to predict any dangerous situation like leakage of toxic gas in large scale pipeline. Furthermore, the layout design procedure in the industry to ensure connectivity and information flow is also a part of IoT paradigm. Thus, the primary concerns of IWSN integrated with IoT and Big Data are capability, reliability, and cost. This special issue focuses on exploring recent emerging technologies and research developments on industrial networks and intelligent systems to advance the step towards the smarter plants integrated with IoT and Big Data. …