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Smart manufacturing for industry 4.0 using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology
Industry 4.0 (I4.0) presents a unique challenge of efficiently transforming traditional manufacturing to smart and
autonomous systems.Integrating manufacturing systems, materials, machinery, operators, products and consumers,
improve interconnectivity and traceability across the entire product life cycle in order to ensure the horizontal and vertical
integration of networked Smart Manufacturing (SM) systems. Manufacturing functions of Material Handling (MH)-control,
storage, protection and transport of raw materials, work in process (WIP) and finished products- throughout a manufacturing
and distribution process will need a revamp in ways they are currently being carried in order to transition them into the
SM era. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), an Automated Identification Data Capture (AIDC) technology increasingly
being used to enhance MH functions in the (SM) industry, due to opportunities it presents for item tracking, out of sight
data capturing, navigation and space mapping abilities. The technology readiness level of RFID has presented many
implementation challenges as progress is being made to fully integrate the technology into the preexisting MH functions.
Recently, many researchers in academia and industry have described various methods of using RFID for improving and
efficiently carrying out MH functions as a gradual transition is being made into I4.0 era. This paper reviews and categorize
research finding regarding RFID application developments according to various MH functions in SM, tabulates how various
I4.0 enablers are needed to transform various traditional manufacturing functions into SM. It aims to let more experts
know the current research status of RFID technology and provide some guidance for future research
Security and Privacy for Green IoT-based Agriculture: Review, Blockchain solutions, and Challenges
open access articleThis paper presents research challenges on security and privacy issues in the field of green IoT-based agriculture. We start by describing a four-tier green IoT-based agriculture architecture and summarizing the existing surveys that deal with smart agriculture. Then, we provide a classification of threat models against green IoT-based agriculture into five categories, including, attacks against privacy, authentication, confidentiality, availability, and integrity properties. Moreover, we provide a taxonomy and a side-by-side comparison of the state-of-the-art methods toward secure and privacy-preserving technologies for IoT applications and how they will be adapted for green IoT-based agriculture. In addition, we analyze the privacy-oriented blockchain-based solutions as well as consensus algorithms for IoT applications and how they will be adapted for green IoT-based agriculture. Based on the current survey, we highlight open research challenges and discuss possible future research directions in the security and privacy of green IoT-based agriculture
Information and resource management systems for Internet of Things: Energy management, communication protocols and future applications
The idea of the Internet of Things (IoT) has enabled
the objects of our surroundings to intercommunicate with each
other in diverse working environments by utilizing their embedded
architectural and communication technologies. IoT has
provided humans the capability to manipulate the operations
and data available from different information systems using these
intelligent objects available in the surroundings. The scope of IoT
is to serve humanity across different domains of life covering industrial,
health, home and day-to-day operations of Information
Systems (IS). Due to the huge number of heterogeneous network
elements interacting and working under IoT based information
systems, there is an enormous need for resource management
for the smooth running of IoT operations. The key aspect in
IoT implementations is to have resource-constrained embedded
devices and objects participating in IoT operations. It is important
to meet the challenges raised during management and
sharing of resources in IoT based information systems. Managing
resources by implementing protocols, algorithms and techniques
are required to enhance the scalability, reliability and stability in
IoT operations across different fields of technology. This special
issue opens the new areas of interest for the researchers in the
domain of resource management in IoT operations
From serendipity to sustainable Green IoT: technical, industrial and political perspective
Recently, Internet of Things (IoT) has become one of the largest electronics market for hardware production due to its fast evolving application space. However, one of the key challenges for IoT hardware is the energy efficiency as most of IoT devices/objects are expected to run on batteries for months/years without a battery replacement or on harvested energy sources. Widespread use of IoT has also led to a largescale rise in the carbon footprint. In this regard, academia, industry and policy-makers are constantly working towards new energy-efficient hardware and software solutions paving the way for an emerging area referred to as green-IoT. With the direct integration and the evolution of smart communication between physical world and computer-based systems, IoT devices are also expected to reduce the total amount of energy consumption for the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector.
However, in order to increase its chance of success and to help at reducing the overall energy consumption and carbon emissions a comprehensive investigation into how to achieve green-IoT is required. In this context, this paper surveys the green perspective of the IoT paradigm and aims to contribute at establishing a global approach for green-IoT environments. A comprehensive approach is presented that focuses not only on the specific solutions but also on the interaction among them, and highlights the precautions/decisions the policy makers need to take. On one side, the ongoing European projects and standardization efforts as well as industry and academia based solutions are presented and on the other side, the challenges, open issues, lessons learned and the role of policymakers towards green-IoT are discussed.
The survey shows that due to many existing open issues (e.g., technical considerations, lack of standardization, security and privacy, governance and legislation, etc.) that still need to be addressed, a realistic implementation of a sustainable green-IoT environment that could be universally accepted and deployed, is still missing
M-health review: joining up healthcare in a wireless world
In recent years, there has been a huge increase in the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to deliver health and social care. This trend is bound to continue as providers (whether public or private) strive to deliver better care to more people under conditions of severe budgetary constraint
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