This book focuses on the key technologies, challenges, and research directions of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). It provides a basis for discussing open principles, methods, and research problems, and provides a systematic overview of the state-of-the-art research efforts, directions, and potential challenges associated with IIoT.

Industrial Internet of Things: Technologies and Research Directions covers how industry automation is projected to be the largest and fastest-growing segment of the market. It explores the collaborative development of high-performance telecommunications, military, industrial, and general-purpose embedded computing applications, and offers a systematic overview of the state-of-the-art research efforts and new potential directions.

Researchers, academicians, and professionals working in this inter-disciplinary area will be interested in this book.

Anand Sharma, received his Ph.D. degree in Engineering from MUST, Lakshmangarh, MTech from ABV-IIITM, Gwalior and BE from RGPV, Bhopal. He has been working with Mody University of Science and Technology, Lakshmangarh for last 10 years. He has more than 14 years of experience of teaching and research. He has been invited to several reputed institutions ISI-Kolkata, IIT-Mumbai, IIT-Jodhpur, IIT-Delhi, RTU-Kota etc. He has pioneered research in areas of Information Security, IoT, WBAN and Machine Learning. He is a member of IEEE, IET, ACM, IE(India), Life Member of CSI and ISTE. He is serving as secretary of CSI-Lakshmangarh Chapter and Student Branch Coordinator of CSI-MUST Student branch. He has more than 6 authored/edited books with national and international publishers. He has contributed more than 10 book chapters in books of reputed publishers. He has organized more than 15 conferences / seminars and workshops. He has chaired more than 8 special sessions and delivered 6 Keynote addresses in international conferences. He is serving on advisory capacity in several international journals as Editorial Member and in International Conferences as Technical Programme committee / Organizing committee.

Sunil Kumar Jangir received his B.E. (Information Technology) with honors from the University of Rajasthan in July 2009. He received the M.Tech. degree with highest distinction in Software Engineering from Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Jecrc University, Jaipur. He is having 12+ years of teaching experience in the field of Computer science & Engineering. He has published more than 35 research papers in national and international conferences and journals. He has contributed more than 05 book chapters in books of reputed publishers. He is a member of IET, ACM and IEEE Dr. Jangir serves as a convener of 1st and 2nd ICITDA, 1st- NCITSA, Convener of JECRC Hackathon 1.0 and nominated 4 time as Institute SPOC for Smart India Hackathon. Dr. Jangir chaired no. of sessions in various international Conferences. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University Institute of Engineering, Chandigarh University in Mohali, India. Dr. Jangir Currently serving IEEE Student Branch Counselor. Dr. Jangir Currently served IEEE Student Branch Faculty coordinator of MUST. He was Asscoiated with CSI-India in past. The main area of his research interest includes Computer Networks, Machine learning, Deep learning as well as routing protocols for ad- hoc networks. Currently, he is working in the area of IoT.

Manish Kumar received the B.Tech. degree in Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from Biju Patnaik University, Rourkela, India, in 2010 and the M.Tech. Degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Manipal Univesity, Udupi, India, in 2013. He received Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India, 2019. Worked as a research associate in the Indian Institute of Technology, Patna, India. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Mody University of Science and Technology, Sikar, Rajasthan, India. His areas of interest are Medical Image Processing, Signal Processing, Machine Learning and Nature Inspired Techniques.

Dilip Kumar Choubey, is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology Bhagalpur, India since 9th November 2020. He worked as an Assistant Professor (Senior) in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India during 13th May 2019 to 06th November 2020, Worked as an Assistant Professor (On Contract) in NIT Patna, India during 30th March 2017 to 09 May 2019. He has worked as an Asst. Prof. in Lakshmi Narain College of Technology (L.N.C.T), Bhopal, India and Oriental College of Technology (O.C.T), Bhopal, India. He has more than 9 years of teaching and research experiences. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology (B.I.T), Mesra, Ranchi, India in 2018. He received his M.Tech degree in Computer Science and Engineering and B.E. degree in Information Technology from RGPV Bhopal, India in 2012 and 2010 respectively. He is an author of 2 books, 1 copyrights grant and has more than 45 reputed research publications in international journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. He has also one project as a Co-PI funded by TEQUIP Collaborative Research Scheme. He is guiding 02 Ph.D. students, has guided many PG and UG projects. He has conducted several FDP/Workshop. He has delivered many expert talks as well as attended in FDP/Workshop/Conferences. He has been also the member of the organizing and technical program committees of many conferences and Workshop. He has reviewed many research papers in reputed journal/conferences/book chapters. He is the lifetime members of several professional bodies. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Science, Soft Computing, Pattern Recognition, Bioinformatics, Data Mining, Database Management System, and IoT, etc.

Tarun Shrivastava is Founder and CEO of Tishitu Electronics deals with Industrial, Govt and commercial product development and Tishitu Technology and research private Ltd. deals with educational expertise where in team of 80 Professional connected in India and Abroad . Tishitu is registered with MSME iStart Rajasthan, Certified with ISO accreditation system with Scotland UK, & well renowned name in the domain of Engineering. He has developed Hydrogen Fuel Cell for green energy fuel generation HHO Home gas 2010-2016. He also worked with company Omega Electronics Jaipur for various Educational products like Digital computer interface simulators for digital electronics VLSI kit for learning VHDL and Verilog programs to embedded in environment with Xilinx for CPLD and FPGA interface.

S.Balamurugan received his B.Tech., M.Tech., and PhD Degrees all in the field of Information Technology from Anna University, India. He received three Post-Doctoral Degrees-a Doctor of Letters(D.Litt., ), Doctor of Science (D.Sc., ) and Doctor of Technology(D.Tech., ). He has published 50 books, 200+ international journals/conferences and 60 patents to his credit. He is the Director-Research and Development, Intelligent Research Consultancy Services(iRCS), Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India. He is serving as a research consultant to many Companies, Startups, SMEs and MSMEs. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Book Series Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing for Industrial Transformation, Scrivener, John Wiley. Artificial Intelligence an Learning Techniques for Engineering, Bentham Sciences, Advances in Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Data Sciences for Industrial Transformation, and Advances in IoT, Robotics and Cyber Physical Systems for Industrial Transformation, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Information Science Letters, Natural Sciences Publishing, NSP and International Journal of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, PRIRS, USA. He is Associate Editor of IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems-Oxford University Press, Cluster Computing- Springer, Simulation- Sage Publishing, Technology and Healthcare- IOS Press, Intelligent IoT Computing, Inderscience, World Journal of Engineering, Emerald, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Technologies and Application, Inderscience, International Journal of Renewable Energy Technology, Inderscience Publishers, Journal of Autonomous Intelligence, Frontier Scientific Publishing. He is also in editorial of International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Emerald, International Journal of Automation and Control, Inderscience Publishers, International Journal of Society, Systems and Science, Inderscience Publishers, International Journal of System Dynamics Applications (IJSDA), IGI Global Publishers, International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology, IGI Global Publishers, International Journal of Knowledge and System Sciences, IGI Global Publishers and several other journals of Taylor & Francis, Inderscience, Emerald, IET, MDPI, De Gruyter and Lead Guest Editor of several special issues with Springer, Elsevier and IEEE. He is the recipient of Rashtriya Vidhya Gourav Gold Medal Award and The Best Educationalist Award from Hon.Justice O.P Saxena, Supreme Court, New Delhi and the Former Chairman of Minority Council, New Delhi, India. He is the recipient of two Lifetime Achievement Awards. He is the recipient of Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam Sadhbhavana Award form Hon.Balmiki Prasad Singh, Former Governor of Sikkim, Jewel of India Award from Mr. Gurpreet Singh, General Secretary, India, Star of Asia Award from Mr. Korn Debbaransi, Former Dy. Prime Minister, Thailand, in an International Summit at (Bangkok) Thailand & Pride of Asia Research Excellence Award from Hon.Anant. V.Sheth, Deputy Speaker- Goa Legislative Assembly, Best Director Award. He received the Active Member CSI National Award. He was awarded the Prestigious Mahatma Gandhi Leadership Award at House of Commons, British Parliament, London, UK. The book he authored on Machine Learning and Deep Learning Algorithms using MATLAB and PYTHON won Best MATLAB Book for Beginners Award by Book Authority. Dr. S. Balamurugan won the CSI Young IT Professional Award. He is the winner of the National CSI Youth Award 2020, by Computer Society of India. He is also the recipient of the Best Researcher Award, Certificate of Exceptionalism, Young Scientist Award, Best Young Researcher Award and Outstanding Scientist Award. His biography is listed in Marquis WHO'S WHO, New Jersey, USA. His professional activities include roles as Editor-in-Chief/Associate Editor/ Editorial Board Member for more than 500+ International Journals/Conferences of high repute and impact. He has been invited as Chief Guest/Resource Person/Keynote Plenary Speaker in many reputed Universities and Colleges at National and International Levels. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Internet of Things, Big Data Analytics, Cloud Computing, and Wearable Computing. He is a life member of ACM, IEEE, ISTE and CSI.