Half Day 1

  Human beings have experienced two major industrial revolutions. The first one took place in the 19th century, which replaced muscle power from humans and animals with mechanical power. The second one started in the middle 20th century, which provided people and societies with Internet. It was built with the technologies from computing, communication, networking and information storage. Both offered unprecedented productivity increases. What will be the next one? This tutorial intends to answer this question by presenting some recent development of Internet of Things (IoT). It was selected by IEEE as a major initiative to develop and advance over the next few years. We plan to present the status of IoT including its architectures, frameworks, interesting research projects and applications to manufacturing automation, smart cities, medical and healthcare services. Such key technologies and barriers as information security and social sensing will also be discussed.

MengChu Zhou, Ph.D. and Distinguished Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA and
The MoE Key Laboratory of Embedded System and Service Computing
Tongji University, Shanghai, China
E-mail: zhou@njit.edu
Phone: 973-596-6282
Fax: 973-596-5680

WenFeng Li, Ph.D. and Professor
School of Logistics Engineering
Wuhan University of Technology
Wuhan, China
E-mail: liwf@whut.edu.cn


MengChu Zhou received his B.S. degree in Control Engineering from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China in 1983, M.S. degree in Automatic Control from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China in 1986, and Ph. D. degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY in 1990. He joined New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ in 1990, and is now a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is presently a Professor of Tongji University, Shanghai, China. His research interests are in Petri nets, sensor networks, web services, big data, semiconductor manufacturing, transportation and energy systems. He has over 550 publications including 11 books, 260+ journal papers (majority in IEEE Transactions), and 22 book-chapters. He is the founding Editor of IEEE Press Book Series on Systems Science and Engineering, and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. He is a life member of Chinese Association for Science and Technology-USA and served as its President in 1999. He is a Fellow of IEEE, IFAC and AAAS.

Dr. Wenfeng Li is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Professor at the School of Logistics Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China. He was a visiting professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2012. He received his PhD from Wuhan University of Technology in 2000, his Master degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1990, and his Bachelor degree from Zhengzhou Institute of Light Industry. He has contributed to IEEE as a Co-Chair of the special Session, Cooperated Wireless Sensor Networks of IEEE System, Man and Cybernetic (SMC) 2009, 2010, and 2011, a Program Committee Co-Chair of the International Working Group on Computer supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) in Design (2012) and a Program Committee Co-Chair of IEEE International Conference of Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA) 2010 and IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA) 2010. His current research interests include swarm intelligence, IoT, Robotics, modeling and simulation of logistics systems.

Prof. George Q. Huang joined Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at HKU in late 1996 and currently serves as Head of Department. With substantial financial supports from various funding sources, Professor Huang has conducted research in collaborative product development, RFID-enabled wireless manufacturing and cross-border logistics. Professor Huang has published extensively in these areas, including two monographs and two edited reference books, and over 300 technical papers half of which have appeared in reputable journals. Professor Huang serves as regional / area / senior editors, associate editors and editorial board members of a number of international journals. Professor Huang is Chartered Engineer, Fellow of ASME, HKIE, IET and CILT.


1. Internet of Things: Research and Practice- M. Zhou
2. Smart Cities and IoT- M. Zhou
3. RFID- Enabled Real- Time Ubiquitous Manufacturing Platform- G. Q. Huang