The application of internet of things (IoT) technologies and artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled IoT solutions has gradually become accepted by business and production organizations as an effective tool for automating several activities effectively and efficiently and developing and distributing products to the global market. Within this book, the reader will learn how to implement IoT devices, IoT-equipped machines, and AI-equipped IoT applications using models and methodologies along with an array of case studies. Advanced IoT Technologies and Applications in the Industry 4.0 Digital Economy covers the basics of IoT-equipped machines in developing and managing various activities in many industries. It discusses all of the key points of an AI-enabled IoT solution, which includes predictive analytics, robotic process automation, predictive maintenance, automated processes, IoT technologies and IoT-equipped sensors related to machines and processes, production testing systems, and product assessment processes in the production environment. The book presents the concepts and interactive methods using datasets, processing workflow charts, and architectural diagrams along with additional real-time systems for easy and fast understanding of the application of IoT-equipped machines and AI-enabled solutions in organizations and includes many case studies throughout the book to enforce reader comprehension. This book is an ideal read for industry specialists, practitioners, researchers, scientists, and engineers working or involved in the fields of Robotics, IT, Computer Science, Soft Computing, IoT, AL/ML/DL, Data Science, the Semantic Web, Knowledge Engineering, and other related fields.

Looks at how the Internet is affecting businesses, education, and government, touching on the twelve themes of the new economy and privacy issues

This book provides an overview of the current Internet of Things (IoT) landscape, ranging from the research, innovation and development priorities to enabling technologies in a global context. A successful deployment of IoT technologies requires integration on all layers, be it cognitive and semantic aspects, middleware components, services, edge devices/machines and infrastructures. It is intended to be a standalone book in a series that covers the Internet of Things activities of the IERC - Internet of Things European Research Cluster from research to technological innovation, validation and deployment. The book builds on the ideas put forward by the European Research Cluster and the IoT European Platform Initiative (IoT-EPI) and presents global views and state of the art results on the challenges facing the research, innovation, development and deployment of IoT in the next years. The IoT is bridging the physical world with virtual world and requires sound information processing capabilities for the "digital shadows" of these real things. The research and innovation in nanoelectronics, semiconductor, sensors/actuators, communication, analytics technologies, cyber-physical systems, software, swarm intelligent and deep learning systems are essential for the successful deployment of IoT applications. The emergence of IoT platforms with multiple functionalities enables rapid development and lower costs by offering standardised components that can be shared across multiple solutions in many industry verticals. The IoT applications will gradually move from vertical, single purpose solutions to multi-purpose and collaborative applications interacting across industry verticals, organisations and people, being one of the essential paradigms of the digital economy. Many of those applications still have to be identified and involvement of end-users including the creative sector in this innovation is crucial. The IoT applications and deployments as integrated building blocks of the new digital economy are part of the accompanying IoT policy framework to address issues of horizontal nature and common interest (i.e. privacy, end-to-end security, user acceptance, societal, ethical aspects and legal issues) for providing trusted IoT solutions in a coordinated and consolidated manner across the IoT activities and pilots. In this, context IoT ecosystems offer solutions beyond a platform and solve important technical challenges in the different verticals and across verticals. These IoT technology ecosystems are instrumental for the deployment of large pilots and can easily be connected to or build upon the core IoT solutions for different applications in order to expand the system of use and allow new and even unanticipated IoT end uses. Technical topics discussed in the book include: IntroductionDigitising industry and IoT as key enabler in the new era of Digital EconomyIoT Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda IoT in the digital industrial context: Digital Single MarketIntegration of heterogeneous systems and bridging the virtual, digital and physical worldsFederated IoT platforms and interoperabilityEvolution from intelligent devices to connected systems of systems by adding new layers of cognitive behaviour, artificial intelligence and user interfaces. Innovation through IoT ecosystemsTrust-based IoT end-to-end security, privacy framework User acceptance, societal, ethical aspects and legal issuesInternet of Things Applications

This book includes original, unpublished contributions presented at the Sixth International Conference on Emerging Applications of Information Technology (EAIT 2020), held at the University of Kalyani, Kalyani, West Bengal, India, on November 2020. The book covers the topics such as image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, data mining, big data and analytics, information security and privacy, wireless and sensor networks, and IoT. It will also include IoT application-related papers in pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, expert systems, natural language understanding, image processing, computer vision, applications in biomedical engineering, artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary optimization, data mining, Web intelligence, intelligent agent technology, virtual reality, and visualization.

This book covers the need for Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and artificial intelligence (AI)–aided IoT solutions for business and production. It shows how IoT-based technology uses algorithms and AI models to bring out the desired results. AI-Aided IoT Technologies and Applications for Smart Business and Production shows how a variety of IoT technologies can be used toward integrating data fabric solutions and how intelligent applications can be used to greater effect in business and production operations. The book also covers the integration of IoT data-driven financial technology (fintech) applications to fulfill the goals of trusted AI-aided IoT solutions. Next, the authors show how IoT-based technology uses algorithms and AI models to bring out the desired results across various industries including smart cities, buildings, hospitals, hotels, homes, factories, agriculture, transportation, and more. The last part focuses on AI-aided IoT techniques, data analytics, and visualization tools. This book targets a mixed audience of specialists, analysts, engineers, scholars, researchers, academics, and professionals. It will be useful to engineering officers, IoT and AI engineers, engineering and industrial management students, and research scholars looking for new ideas, methodologies, technologies, models, frameworks, theories, and practices to resolve the challenging issues associated with leveraging IoT technologies, data-driven analytics, AI-aided models, IoT cybersecurity, 5G, sensors, and augmented and virtual reality techniques for developing smart systems in the era of Industrial Revolution 4.0.

Cognitive Hyperconnected Digital Transformation provides an overview of the current Internet of Things (IoT) landscape, ranging from research, innovation and development priorities to enabling technologies in a global context. It is intended as a standalone book in a series that covers the Internet of Things activities of the IERC-Internet of Things European Research Cluster, including both research and technological innovation, validation and deployment. The book builds on the ideas put forward by the European Research Cluster, the IoT European Platform Initiative (IoT-EPI) and the IoT European Large-Scale Pilots Programme, presenting global views and state-of-the-art results regarding the challenges facing IoT research, innovation, development and deployment in the next years. Hyperconnected environments integrating industrial/business/consumer IoT technologies and applications require new IoT open systems architectures integrated with network architecture (a knowledge-centric network for IoT), IoT system design and open, horizontal and interoperable platforms managing things that are digital, automated and connected and that function in real-time with remote access and control based on Internet-enabled tools. The IoT is bridging the physical world with the virtual world by combining augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to support the physical-digital integrations in the Internet of mobile things based on sensors/actuators, communication, analytics technologies, cyber-physical systems, software, cognitive systems and IoT platforms with multiple functionalities. These IoT systems have the potential to understand, learn, predict, adapt and operate autonomously. They can change future behaviour, while the combination of extensive parallel processing power, advanced algorithms and data sets feed the cognitive algorithms that allow the IoT systems to develop new services and propose new solutions. IoT technologies are moving into the industrial space and enhancing traditional industrial platforms with solutions that break free of device-, operating system- and protocol-dependency. Secure edge computing solutions replace local networks, web services replace software, and devices with networked programmable logic controllers (NPLCs) based on Internet protocols replace devices that use proprietary protocols. Information captured by edge devices on the factory floor is secure and accessible from any location in real time, opening the communication gateway both vertically (connecting machines across the factory and enabling the instant availability of data to stakeholders within operational silos) and horizontally (with one framework for the entire supply chain, across departments, business units, global factory locations and other markets). End-to-end security and privacy solutions in IoT space require agile, context-aware and scalable components with mechanisms that are both fluid and adaptive. The convergence of IT (information technology) and OT (operational technology) makes security and privacy by default a new important element where security is addressed at the architecture level, across applications and domains, using multi-layered distributed security measures. Blockchain is transforming industry operating models by adding trust to untrusted environments, providing distributed security mechanisms and transparent access to the information in the chain. Digital technology platforms are evolving, with IoT platforms integrating complex information systems, customer experience, analytics and intelligence to enable new capabilities and business models for digital business.

World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolu­tion, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work. Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before. Characterized by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, the developments are affecting all disciplines, economies, industries and governments, and even challenging ideas about what it means to be human. Artificial intelligence is already all around us, from supercomputers, drones and virtual assistants to 3D printing, DNA sequencing, smart thermostats, wear­able sensors and microchips smaller than a grain of sand. But this is just the beginning: nanomaterials 200 times stronger than steel and a million times thinner than a strand of hair and the first transplant of a 3D printed liver are already in development. Imagine “smart factories” in which global systems of manu­facturing are coordinated virtually, or implantable mobile phones made of biosynthetic materials. The fourth industrial revolution, says Schwab, is more significant, and its ramifications more profound, than in any prior period of human history. He outlines the key technologies driving this revolution and discusses the major impacts expected on government, business, civil society and individu­als. Schwab also offers bold ideas on how to harness these changes and shape a better future—one in which technology empowers people rather than replaces them; progress serves society rather than disrupts it; and in which innovators respect moral and ethical boundaries rather than cross them. We all have the opportunity to contribute to developing new frame­works that advance progress.

This book discusses the basic principles of sustainable development in a smart city ecosystem to better serve the life of citizens. It examines smart city systems driven by emerging IoT-powered technologies and the other dependent platforms. Smart Cities: AI, IoT Technologies, Big Data Solutions, Cloud Platforms, and Cybersecurity Techniques discusses the design and implementation of the core components of the smart city ecosystem. The editors discuss the effective management and development of smart city infrastructures, starting with planning and integrating complex models and diverse frameworks into an ecosystem. Specifically the chapters examine the core infrastructure elements, including activities of the public and private services as well as innovative ICT solutions, computer vision, IoT technologies, data tools, cloud services, AR/VR technologies, cybersecurity techniques, treatment solution of the environmental water pollution, and other intelligent devices for supporting sustainable living in the smart environment. The chapters also discuss machine vision models and implementation as well as real-time robotic applications. Upon reading the book, users will be able to handle the challenges and improvements of security for smart systems, and will have the know-how to analyze and visualize data using big data tools and visualization applications. The book will provide the technologies, solutions as well as designs of smart cities with advanced tools and techniques for students, researchers, engineers, and academics.

In recent years, the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in smart healthcare has been increasing. We are approaching a world where connected smart devices tell people when they need to visit a doctor because these devices will be able to detect health problems and discover symptoms of illness that may need medical care. AI-collaborative IoT technologies can help medical professionals with decision-making. These technologies can also help develop a sustainable and smart healthcare system. AI and IoT Technology and Applications for Smart Healthcare Systems helps readers understand complex scientific topics in a simple and accessible way. It introduces the world of AI-collaborative IoT physics, explaining how this technology behaves at the smallest level and how this can revolutionize healthcare. The book shows how IoT technology and AI can work together to make computers more powerful and capable of solving complex problems in the healthcare sector. Exploring the effect of AI-collaborative technology on IoT technologies, the book discusses how IoT can benefit from AI algorithms to enable machines to learn, make decisions, and process information more efficiently. Because smart machines create more perceptive devices and systems, the application of this technology raises important ethical questions about privacy, security, and the responsible development of healthcare IoT technology, which this book covers. The book also provides insight into the potential applications of these technologies not only in the healthcare industry but also in related fields, such as smart transportation, smart manufacturing, and smart cities.

This book offers an introduction to structural dynamics, ripple effect and resilience in supply chain disruption risk management for larger audiences. In the management section, without relying heavily on mathematical derivations, the book offers state-of-the-art concepts and methods to tackle supply chain disruption risks and designing resilient supply chains in a simple, predictable format to make it easy to understand for students and professionals with both management and engineering background. In the technical section, the book constitutes structural dynamics control methods for supply chain management. Real-life problems are modelled and solved with the help of mathematical programming, discrete-event simulation, optimal control theory, and fuzzy logic. The book derives practical recommendations for management decision-making with disruption risk in the following areas: How to estimate the impact of possible disruptions on performance in the pro-active stage? How to generate efficient and effective stabilization and recovery policies? When does one failure trigger an adjacent set of failures? Which supply chain structures are particular sensitive to ripple effect? How to measure the disruption risks in the supply chain?