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Suitability of nb-IoT for indoor industrial environment: A survey and insights

  • Muhammad Dangana
  • , Shuja Ansari
  • , Qammer H. Abbasi
  • , Sajjad Hussain
  • , Muhammad Ali Imran
  • University of Glasgow

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Article number5284
JournalSensors
Volume21
Issue number16
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Aug 2021
Externally publishedYes

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
    SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Keywords

  • Edge computing
  • Industrial IoT
  • Internet of Things
  • Latency
  • Long term evolution (LTE)
  • Narrow-Band IoT
  • Self-organizing network (SON)
  • Wireless communication

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