Wireless communication is very appealing for a broad range of automation applications, including industrial process monitoring and control, home and factory automation, environmental, building and structural monitoring and energy management. Wireless communications in the automation domain impose a number of research challenges, such as communication reliability, bandwidth management, latency issues and energy efficiency. In dynamic environments, very challenging research issues arrive when non-functional properties, such as real-time behavior and adaptability, must be enforced. We solicit technical papers describing original ideas, theory, methodology and experiences from the design, implementation and deployment of wireless systems for industrial automation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Advanced network architectures and standards for industrial sensor and actuator networks
- Protocols for reliable and real-time wireless communication
- Integration and coexistence of heterogeneous wireless networks
- Wireless sensor and actuator networks performance, simulation, RF measurements, modeling and case studies
- Control over wireless networks
- Data analytics in industrial wireless networks
- Security and safety issues in industrial wireless networks and
- Emerging wireless concepts, such as related to Internet-of-Things, for industrial applications