Industrial Internet of Things

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) field of competence focuses on the conception, development, and validation of novel communication and computational architectures with the aim of implementing heterogeneous and decentralized services and resources in an efficient, robust, and where possible, forward-looking manner.

These activities are carried out by developing software-based solutions for OSI layers 2 and above in the context of three primary fields of research:

decentralized edge computing
real-time system adaptation
in-network computing and analysis

Vision
Enable next-generation IIoT applications, such as video streaming, immersive AR/VR, swarms of production robots, autonomous vehicles and their infrastructure and micro grids/sector coupling.

Mission
Rethink, develop, and validate IIoT systems that consolidate data processing, communication, and service automation.

Services

Research aimed at new directions in the context of the Edge-Cloud continuum, in particular decentralized Edge.
Support for the integration of decentralized data exchange in industrial environments via novel PubSub (Publish-Subscribe) approaches.
Support of bandwidth-intensive IIoT applications, via the development of cognitive, AI/ML-based networking architectures.
Training and education, such as hands-on workshops for edge computing and technical mentorship in the area of advanced IIoT systems.

Open-Source-Tools

Further information

Whitepaper The Need for Network Service Composition in GAIA-X

Publications

2024 Latest Advances on Deterministic on Deterministic Wired/Wireless Industrial Networks Rute C. Sofia Book "6G Connectivity-Systems, Technologies, and applications", River Publishers, USA, Details URL DOI BIB
2023 Requirements for Reliable Wireless Industrial Services. Informational draft, IETF Reliable and Available Wireless Working Group Rute C. Sofia, Matthias Kovatsch and Paulo M. Mendes IETF RAW, ():, 2023. Details URL BIB
2023 6G visions for a sustainable and people-centric future - from communications to services, the CONASENSE perspective Rute C. Sofia and Ramjee Prasad volume . River Publishers, USA, , River Publishers, USA, August 2023 edition, 2023. Details URL BIB
2023 Shaping the Future of IoT with Edge Intelligence - How Edge Computing Enables the Next Generation of IoT Applications Rute C. Sofia and John Soldatos volume . Book, River Publishers, USA, , Book, CONASENSE series edition, 2023. Details URL BIB
2023 IoT Things to Service Matchmaking at the Edge Nisrine Bnouhanna and Rute C. Sofia Book chapter, Shaping the Future of IoT with Edge Intelligence - How Edge Computing Enables the Next Generation of IoT Applications, River Publishers, USA, Details URL BIB
2023 The EFPF Approach to Manufacturing Applications across Edge-Cloud Rute C. Sofia, Carlos Coutinho, Gabriele Scivoletto, Gianluca Insolvibile, Rohit A. Deshmukh, Alexander Schneider, Violeta Damjanovic-Behrendt, Fernando Gigante, Usman Wajid, Dimosthenis Ioannidis and Theofilos Mastos Book Chapter, Shaping the Future of IoT with Edge Intelligence - How Edge Computing Enables the Next Generation of IoT Applications, River Publishers USA, Details URL BIB
2023 Dynamic, Context-Aware Cross-Layer Orchestration of Containerized Applications Rute C. Sofia, Doug Dykeman, Peter Urbanetz, Akram Galal and Dushyant Dave IEEE Access, ():, 2023. Details URL DOI BIB
2023 Fine Time Measurement based Time Synchronization for Multi-AP Wireless Industrial Environments Sugandh H. Mohan and Rute C. Sofia In inProc. IEEE WiMob2023, IEEE. Details URL DOI BIB
2023 White Paper IoT and Crisis Preparedness - AIOTI FG Buildings and Communities Ana Pereira, Rita Santiago, Patricia Jimenez, Pietro Dionisio, Lazaros Karagiannidis, Evangelos Maltezos, Panagiotis Michalis, Dimitris Diagourtas, George Suciu, Monica Florea, Asbjorn Hovsto, Flemming Sven, Tonny Velin, Dolores Ordonez, Karoline Krenn, Roman Vanhee, Rute C. Sofia, Rouman Nikolov, Amelie Gyrard, Gabriel Petrescu and Mario Drobics AIOTI White paper, Details URL DOI BIB
2023 Fine Time Measurement based Time Synchronization for Multi-AP OFDMA Wireless Industrial Environments Sugandh H. Mohan, Rute C. Sofia, Florian Wiedner, Jonas Andre and Georg Carle Master thesis, CIT, TUM, Details URL BIB
2023 Handbook – A Selection of Wireless Communications Technologies for Mechanical and Plant Engineering Peter Nevermann, Frank Buckhardt, Daniel Wilkomm, Miriam Solera, Christoph Böckenhoff, Michael Zahlecker, Matthias Flieger, Ofer Blonskey, Gabi Daniely, Rute C. Sofia, Josef Bernhard, Jorge Luis Juárez Peña, Maria Fresia, Alexander Kahlig, Bela Márkus, Gianni Zizzi, Volker Braun, Wolfgang Weber, Matthias Bohge, Eike Lyczkowski, Ulrich Sinn, Neval Pervane, Kilian Löser, Christoph Weiler, Marc Schmidt, Gabriel Böwering, Sascha Elsner, Simon Flepp, Dimitri Block, Jussi Numminen, Juho Pirskanen, Juha Salokannel, Liisa Salone, Thomas Weisshaupt, Roland Schaefer, Harald Lukosz, Sascha Joos, Markus Birkhold, Murtaza Abbas, Wolfgang Balzer, Christoph Cammin, Thomas Robert Doebbert, Heiko Noll, Andreas Langwieser, Tobias Heuft, Susanne Krichel, Volker Heinzer, Josef Teepker, Andreas Pfaff, Thomas Pohlmann, Christian Bauer, Stefan Manz, Matthias Noller and Annika Gregorz volume . VDMA Services GmbH, , edition, 2023. Details URL BIB
2023 An Analysis of Machine Learning-based Semantic Matchmaking Erkan Karabulut and Rute C. Sofia In IEEE Access, Vol 11, 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3259360. Mar 2023, IEEE. Details URL BIB
2023 An Analysis of ML-based Outlier Detection for Mobile Phone Trajectories Francisco Melo Pereira and Rute C. Sofia inProc. MDPI Future Internet, ():, 2023. Details URL BIB
2022 Fine Time Measurement Based Synchronisation for Industrial Wireless/Wired Networks Sugandh H. Mohan and Rute C. Sofia In inProc. IEEE WPMC2022, IEEE. Details URL DOI BIB
2022 Neue Standards erweitern deterministische drahtlose Produktionsinfrastructuren Rute C. Sofia VDMA Future Manufacturing, Details URL BIB
2022 EU-IoT and OntoCommons Workshop Ontological interoperability, standardization recommendations discussion Rute C. Sofia and Rita Giuffrudita Details URL DOI BIB
2022 ML-based data classification and data aggregation on the edge Erkan Karabulut, Rute C. Sofia and Jörg Ott MSc Thesis, CIT, TUM, Details URL BIB
2022 A Proposal for Time-Aware Scheduling in Wireless Industrial IoT Environments Ben Schneider and Rute C. Sofia inProc. IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2022, ():, 2022. Details URL BIB
2022 An Evaluation of a Semantic Thing To Service Matching Approach in Industrial IoT Environments Nisrine Bnouhanna, Erkan Karabulut, Rute C. Sofia, E. Seder and G. Insolvibile inProc. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops), 2022, pp. 433-438, doi: 10.1109/PerComWorkshops53856.2022.9767519. Pisa, Italy., ():, 2022. Details URL DOI BIB
2021 ML-based Data Classification and Data Aggregation on the Edge Erkan Karabulut, Nisrine Bnouhanna and Rute C. Sofia In CoNEXT-SW '21: Proceedings of the CoNEXT Student Wokshop, pages 21-22, ACM. Details URL DOI BIB
2021 A vision on Smart, Decentralised Edge Computing Research Directions Rute C. Sofia and John Soldatos EU-IoT white paper, ():, 2021. Details URL BIB
2021 The Internet-of-Things Open Source Ecosystem in 2021 John Soldatos, Rute C. Sofia, Monique Calisti and Dariya Rublova White Paper Details URL BIB
2021 A Performance Analysis of Internet of Things Networking Protocols: Evaluating MQTT, CoAP, OPC UA Daniel Maniglia da Silva, Liliana I. Carvalho, José Soares and Rute C. Sofia MDPI Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(11), 4879; Highly Cited Paper Award, ():, 2021. Details URL DOI BIB
2021 IoT Thing To Service Semantic Matching Nisrine Bnouhanna, Rute C. Sofia and Alexander Pretschner In inProc IEEE Percom 2021 (Best PhD paper award), 2021 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops). Details URL DOI BIB
2020 A Review on Scaling Mobile Sensing Platforms for Human Recognition: Challenges and Recommendations for Future Research Liliana I. Carvalho and Rute C. Sofia MDPI IoT, November 2020. https://doi.org/10.3390/iot1020025, ():, 2020. Details URL DOI BIB
2020 A Discussion on Context-awareness to Better Support the IoT Cloud/Edge Continuum Daniel Maniglia da Silva and Rute C. Sofia IEEE Access, volume 8. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3032388, ():, 2020. Details URL BIB
2020 Information-centric Routing for Opportunistic Wireless Networks - draft-mendes-icnrg-dabber-05 Paulo M. Mendes, Rute C. Sofia, Vassilis Tsaoussidis and Carlos Borrego IETF Network Working Group draft, experimental, ():, 2020. Details URL BIB
2020 Leveraging Context-awareness to Better Support the IoT Cloud-Edge Continuum Liliana I. Carvalho, Daniel Maniglia da Silva and Rute C. Sofia InProc. of The Fifth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020). Paris, France, ():, 2020. Details URL DOI BIB
2020 Global Mobility Management for Next Generation Networks Rute C. Sofia volume ISBN-13: 978-1-5275-4848-0, ISBN-10: 1-5275-4848-1. Cambridge Scholars, , 2020 Computer Science edition, 2020. Details URL BIB
2020 Native OPC UA Handling and IEC 61499 PLC Integration within the Arrowhead Framework Jose Cabral, Kirill Dorofeev and Pal Varga In 3RD IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, Details BIB
2020 Skill-Based Engineering in Industrial Automation Domain: Skills Modeling and Orchestration Kirill Dorofeev In 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) Companion, Details BIB
2020 Forwarding in Opportunistic Information-CentricNetworks: an Optimal Stopping Approach Carlos Borrego, Marica Amadeo, Antonella Molinaro, Paulo M. Mendes, Rute C. Sofia, Naercio Magaia and Joan Borrel IEEE Communications Magazine, Volume 58, Issue 5, pp 56-61. 10.1109/MCOM.001.1900774., ():, 2020. Details URL BIB
2020 Mobile Pervasive Augmented Reality Systems - MPARS The Role of User Preferences in the Perceived Quality of Experience in Outdoor Applications Rui Pascoal, Ana de Almeida and Rute C. Sofia ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, (Volume 20, Issue 1, Article 7):, 2020. Details URL DOI BIB
2019 An Analysis of Fog Computing Data Placement Algorithms Daniel Maniglia da Silva, Godwin Asaamoning, Hector Orrillo, Rute C. Sofia and Paulo M. Mendes In Proceedings of the 16th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (EFIOT workshop) 2019. Details URL BIB
2019 Mobility Management via Inference of Roaming Behavior Omar Aponte and Rute C. Sofia In Proceedings of the IEEE 15th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications (WiMob 2019), workshop on Selected Topics in Wireless and Mobile Computing (STWiMob2019). Details URL BIB
2019 TSNSCHED: Automated Schedule Generation for Time Sensitive Networking Aellison Cassimiro T. dos Santos, Ben Schneider and Vivek Nigam Details PDF BIB

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Industrial Internet of Things

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