Industrial wireless sensor networks 2016

The industrial wireless sensor network (IWSN) is the next frontier in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT


Industrial wireless sensor networks 2016
Qindong Sun 1 , Shancang Li 2 , Shanshan Zhao 2 , Hongjian Sun 3 , Li Xu 4 and Arumugam Nallanathan 5 The industrial wireless sensor network (IWSN) is the next frontier in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), which is able to help industrial organizations to gain competitive advantages in industrial manufacturing markets by increasing productivity, reducing the costs, developing new products and services, and deploying new business models.The IWSN can bridge the gap between the existing industrial systems and cyber networks to offer both new challenges and opportunities for manufacturers.
In the next few years, as the edge part of IIoT, the IWSN plays a crucial role in transforming industrial organizations opening up a new era of economic growth and competitiveness in digital industrial 4.0.The IWSN presents great benefits to industrial organizations such as profitability, efficiency, productivity, reliability, and safety mainly through three aspects: (1) boost revenues by increasing production, (2) develop new hybrid business models, and (3) exploit intelligent technologies to fuel innovation.
However, there are still many challenges for the IWSNs: (1) it involves many separate technology families and bringing them together will take time, and (2) there are still many technical barriers to merge different business functions under different technical standards/ vendors.
One of the goals of this Special Issue was to gather researchers from different industrial areas, such as industrial wireless sensors, machine-to-machine communications, and industrial applications and build on the emerging digital industrial 4.0.In the paper ''Connectivity node set generation algorithm of mine WSN based on the maximum distance'' authored by Ke Wang and Donghong Xu, the deployment strategy of IWSNs in a coal mine scenario is investigated based on the energy consumption, survival time, and quality of services.A connectivity node set generation algorithm of mine IWSN-based n maximum distance is proposed and the proposed strategy is tested in a coal mine monitoring system.
Location-based service (LBS) is one of the most important topics in industrial applications; the second paper ''Indoor localization based on subarea division with fuzzy C-means,'' authored by Junhuai Li, Jubo Tian, Rong Fei, Zhixiao Wang, and Huaijun Wang, presents a fingerprint localization model by dividing the target area into multiple sub-areas with fuzzy C-Means algorithm.In this solution, the noise and non-linear attenuation between the wireless signals are considered to improve the accuracy.
Energy consumption and routing algorithms remain two active topics for resource-constrained nodes in IWSNs.In the paper ''Relay participated-new-type building energy management system: an energy-efficient routing scheme for wireless sensor network-based building energy management systems'' by Kewang Zhang, Qizhao Wu, and Xin Li, a novel energy-efficient routing scheme is proposed based a new strategy: relay participated-new-type building energy management system (RP-NTBEMS).The new scheme can reduce the energy consumption and extend the lifetime of IWSN nodes and the simulation result shows that the proposed RP-NTBEMS can obtain better performances

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School of Computer Science and Engineering, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an, China 2 Department of Computer Science and Creative Technologies, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK