Guest Editorial Special Issue on (Industrial) Internet-of-Things for Smart & Sensing Systems: Issues, Trends and Applications

Hervé Panetto (1) , Paulo Cézar Stadzisz (2) , Wenchao Li (3) , Qing-Shan Jia (4)

1 CRAN - Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy
2 UTFPR - Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná [Curitiba, Brasil] = Federal Technological University of Paraná [Curitiba, Brazil] = Université technologique fédérale du Paraná [Curitiba, Brésil]
3 ECE - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering [Boston University]
4 THU - Tsinghua University [Beijing]

Smart and sensing systems represent a significant research theme that has motivated a number of research initiatives around the world. Smart systems typically consist of different components including sensors for signal acquisition, communication units for data transmission between components, control and management units for decision-making, and actuators to perform the appropriate actions. They have impacted applications in many fields such as manufacturing, healthcare, energy, environment, logistic, defence, monitoring, and mobility. As the complexity of such systems continue to grow, the challenge of developing integrated smart and sensing systems has surpassed the design complexity of their individual components. A smart and sensing system may include a large number of heterogeneous components, subsystems, smart and intelligent sensors, and may combine several correlated functionalities. Thus, the main issue of developing smart and sensing systems lies in the complexity to integrate and to manage these different components, technologies, and goals across a wide spectrum. In recent years, the emergence of IoT has amplified the capacity of sensing the world through a network of connected devices using the existing network infrastructure. Grouping together smart and sensing systems in an IoT setting to form large-scale distributed cyber-physical systems has tremendous potential in bringing smart systems to many application domains. This Journal’s Special Issue (SI) aims to promote relevant researches related to strategic views, problems, trends, solutions, and applications of IoT for Smart and Sensing Systems. This represents a more specialized area of interest than the wide application of IoT. The issue focuses more specifically on how industrial IoT contributes to the development of smart and sensing systems.

Mots clés: Sensing systems; Smart systems; IIoT

Domaines: Ingénierie assistée par ordinateur

Hervé Panetto, Paulo Cézar Stadzisz, Wenchao Li, Qing-Shan Jia. Guest Editorial Special Issue on (Industrial) Internet-of-Things for Smart & Sensing Systems: Issues, Trends and Applications. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2018, 5 (6), pp.4392-4395. ⟨10.1109/JIOT.2018.2887349⟩. ⟨hal-01959090⟩