The real and effective ground of all new concepts dedicated to the current advanced
factories, as well as to the future digital ones, is close cooperativity of scattered applications …

The fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) and its requirements impose radical changes to
the underlying networking technologies that will be adopted in future factories. Most popular …

The development of information and communication technologies and turbulent market
conditions have forced enterprises to adapt their way of undertaking business, from …

Many wireless systems like GSM, GPRS, UMTS, Bluetooth, WLAN or WiMAX offer
possibilities to keep people connected while on the move. In this flood of technology and …

Industrial communication systems represent one of the most important innovations of the last
decades in the context of factory and process automation systems. They are networks …

Abstract The FASyS (Absolutely Safe and Healthy Factory) project, aligned with the
European Factories of the Future (FoF) concept, has been set-up to develop a new factory …

Abstract Inside smart factories, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) have to be synchronized one
with another and with the external world to share information and trigger actions. In this …

Most industry analysts are forecasting explosive growth in the use of wireless data network
technologies in industrial applications. For both ZigBee and Bluetooth separate alliances of …

In the last few years, wireless networks have gained significant importance in the context of
industrial communication systems [1], where their deployment is bringing several noticeable …

Collaborative networks manifest in a large variety of forms, including virtual organizations,
virtual enterprises, dynamic supply chains, professional virtual communities, collaborative …