Dr. G. R. Kanagachidambaresan completed his Ph.D. at Anna University Chennai in 2017. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of CSE at Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology. His main research interests include Body Sensor Networks and Fault Tolerant Wireless Sensor Networks. He has published several articles and undertaken consultancy activities for leading MNC companies. He has also guest-edited special issue volumes and books and served as an editorial review board member for peer-reviewed journals. He is presently working on several government sponsored research projects like ISRO, DBT, and DST. Presently, he is the Editor in chief for the Next Generation Computer and Communication Engineering series.
Dr. N. Bharathi works as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science Engineering at SRM Institute of Science and technology, Chennai, India. She has good working knowledge of the Internet of Things and embedded systems in addition to computer science engineering concepts. She was awarded with a Ph.D. degree in computer science in 2014 from SASTRA University, after nearly two decades as as an academician. She also has industrial experience as an R&D head involved in ARM platform boards with software development in Ubuntu OS. She has published many research papers in reputed journals and conferences along with book chapters; guided many tech students in various domains of computer science, engineering, and embedded systems; and currently advises 4 research scholars.

Sensors and Protocols for Industry 4.0

Chapter 1: Overview of Industry 4.0

• Introduction
• Industry 4. 0 revolution
• Industry 4.0 Enabling Technologies
• General Framework
• Benefits of Industry 4.0

Chapter 2: Sensors for Industry 4.0

• General Features of sensors to support IIoT
• List of various sensors and their capabilities
• Seamless integration with application

Chapter 3: Protocols and Standards

• Open Platform Communications
• MTConnect
• Message Queue Telemetry Transport
• Distributed network protocol (DNP3)
• Constrained Application Protocol
• Reference Architectural Model for Industry 4.0
• Industrial Internet Reference Architecture

Chapter 4: Single Board Computers

• Raspberry Pi
• BeagleBone Black
• Banana Pi
• Odroid-boards
• Nvidia Boards

Chapter 5: Industry 4.0 dashboard

• Data Insights and Decision Making
• Digital twin design
• Digitalization
• Business Intelligence

Chapter 6: Smart Factories

• Custom Manufacturing
• Mass Customization
• Fault tolerant Systems
• Autonomic Machine Control and Monitoring

Chapter 7: Supply Chain Monitoring

• Supply Chain Strategies
• Industry Operations with Supply Chain
• Supply Chain performance measures
• Supply Chain Technologies

Chapter 8: CPS Programming

• Python packages for CPS
• Node-Red Platform and its features
• Programming with sensors
• Programming with Communication Mechanisms