Industrial Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems: Transforming the Conventional to Digital

With the help of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data analytics, the internet of things (IoT) is creating partnerships within industry where machines, processes, and humans communicate with one another. As this radically changes traditional industrial operations, this results in the rapid design, cheap manufacture, and effective customization of products. Answering the growing demand of customers and their preferences has become a challenge for such partnerships. Industrial Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems: Transforming the Conventional to Digital is a collection of innovative research that discusses development, implementation, and business impacts of IoT technologies on sustainable societal development and improved life quality. Highlighting a wide range of topics such as green technologies, wireless networks, and IoT policy, this book is ideally designed for technology developers, entrepreneurs, industrialists, programmers, engineers, technicians, researchers, academicians, and students.

Pardeep Kumar is currently working as a Professor and Head of the Computer Systems/Software Engineering Department, Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering, Science & Technology (QUEST) Nawabshah, Pakistan. Additionally, he is also working as Director, Office of Research, Innovation & Commercialization (ORIC), QUEST Nawabshah. Earlier, he had worked as Director Continuing Education QUEST and Coordinator Students' Attendance System at QUEST. He is also working as a member of several academic and administrative committees of HEC Pakistan, PEC Pakistan, QUEST and other universities. Dr. Kumar completed his PhD from Berlin, Germany in 2012. Earlier he did his Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Systems and Master of Engineering in Communication Systems and Networks from Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Jamshoro, Pakistan in 2001 and 2004 respectively. Dr. Kumar joined QUEST in January 2004 and was granted PhD scholarship from HEC Pakistan and DAAD Germany in 2006. His research interests are in the fields of wireless communication, wireless sensor networks, ZigBee, Internet of Things (IoT), next generation networks, communication protocols, etc. Dr. Kumar has authored more than 50 research publications in reputed journals and conferences including several books and book chapters. He has visited different countries including Germany, France, USA, Australia, Italy, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Egypt, Slovenia, etc. to share his research work.is currently working as Professor and Head of the Computer Systems/Software Engineering Department, Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering, Science & Technology (QUEST) Nawabshah, Pakistan. Additionally, he is also working as Director, Office of Research, Innovation & Commercialization (ORIC), QUEST Nawabshah. Earlier, he had worked as Director Continuing Education QUEST and Coordinator Students' Attendance System at QUEST. He is also working as a member of several academic and administrative committees of HEC Pakistan, PEC Pakistan, QUEST and other universities. He completed his PhD from Berlin, Germany in 2012. Earlier he did his Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Systems and Master of Engineering in Communication Systems and Networks from Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Jamshoro, Pakistan in 2001 and 2004 respectively. Dr. Kumar joined QUEST in January 2004 and was granted PhD scholarship from HEC Pakistan and DAAD Germany in 2006. During his PhD research, he designed and developed a novel MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks and has worked under several European Union projects. His research interests are in the fields of wireless communication, wireless sensor networks, IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee, Internet of Things (IoT), next generation networks, communication protocols, etc. Dr. Kumar has authored around 50 research publications in reputed journals and conferences around the world including a book and several book chapters. He has visited different countries including Germany, France, USA, Australia, Italy, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Egypt, Slovenia, etc. to share his research work. Recently he has delivered a keynote talk on Internet of Things at the University of Hawaii, USA in January 2019.

Vasaki Ponnusamy is an Assistant Professor at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia. She obtained her Bachelor of Computer Science and MSc (Computer Science) from Science University of Malaysia and her PhD in IT from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia (2013). She is currently working on biologically-inspired computing, wireless sensor network and energy harvesting.

Vishal Jain is currently working as an Associate Professor with Bharati Vidyapeeth’s Institute of Computer Applications and Management (BVICAM), New Delhi Affiliated to GGSIPU and Accredited by AICTE, since July 2017. He has joined BVICAM, New Delhi in year 2010 and worked as Assistant Professor from August 2010 to July 2017. Before joined BVICAM, New Delhi, he has worked four years in Guru Presmsukh Memorial College of Engineering, Affiliated to GGSIPU and Accredited by AICTE, from July 2004 to July 2008. He has more than 300 research citation indices with Google scholar h-index score 9 and i-10 index 9. His research area includes information retrieval, semantic web, ontology engineering, data mining, adhoc networks, and sensor networks. He has received Young Active Member award for the year 2012 – 13 from Computer Society of India.