Suitability of NB-IoT for indoor industrial environment: a survey and insights

Autor: Qammer H. Abbasi, Muhammad Imran, Shuja Ansari, Sajjad Hussain, Muhammad Dangana
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Sensors, Vol 21, Iss 5284, p 5284 (2021)
ISSN: 1424-8220
Popis: The Internet of Things (IoT) and its applications in industrial settings are set to bring in the fourth industrial revolution. The industrial environment consisting of high profile manufacturing plants and a variety of equipment is inherently characterized by high reflectiveness, causing significant multi-path components that affect the propagation of wireless communications—a challenge among others that needs to be resolved. This paper provides a detailed insight into Narrow-Band IoT (NB-IoT), Industrial IoT (IIoT), and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) within the context of indoor industrial environments. It presents the applications of NB-IoT for industrial settings, such as the challenges associated with these applications. Furthermore, future research directions were put forth in the areas of NB-IoT network management using self-organizing network (SON) technology, edge computing for scalability enhancement, security in NB-IoT generated data, and proposing a suitable propagation model for reliable wireless communications.
Databáze: OpenAIRE