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Lightweight Edge AI for Industrial IoT (Light eAI-IIoT)
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is transforming modern industries by enabling intelligent, data driven operations at the edge of networks. As these systems grow in scale and complexity, optimizing the energy consumption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques becomes essential for sustainable and reliable performance. In particular, data collected by IIoT devices enables predictive maintenance to automate fault detection and diagnosis, improve quality control, enhance worker safety, and unlock supply chain traceability.
As AI and ML become increasingly integrated into IIoT systems, new deployment strategies are emerging to address the stringent constraints of industrial environments.
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This journal special issue especially focuses on the potential and challenges of exploiting Lightweight AI at the edge of networks, including at the IIoT devices themselves. In particular, the issue will explore the synergy of AI compression techniques and wireless communications/sensing, and investigate the potential trade-offs over multiple dimensions such as low AI carbon footprint and excellent wireless communications/sensing performances, with the goal of enabling future IIoT and smart factory applications.
We encourage submissions that explore novel algorithms, hardware architectures, and system designs that enable efficient, low-power sensing and analysis at the edge. Interdisciplinary work that combines insights from wireless technology, signal processing, and embedded AI is particularly welcome.
Topics of Interest
- Energy efficient wireless communications/sensing for IIoT
- Edge AI and ML-aided wireless communications and networking
- Tiny ML for wireless communications/sensing
- AI compression for wireless communications/sensing
- Edge AI network architectures for IIoT
- Low-power acoustic sensing networks
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Guest Editors
Megumi Kaneko
PhD, HDR
National Institute of Informatics & The University of Tokyo, Japan
Guest EditorOlivier Berder
PhD
Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA, France
Guest EditorRobin Gerzaguet
PhD
Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA, France
Guest EditorJulien Weber
MEng
Wavely, France
Guest EditorKenichi Kawamura
MD
NTT, Inc., Japan
Guest EditorWe welcome submissions from researchers worldwide working on energy efficient wireless communication/sensing for IIoT and edge AI applications.