IEEE Region 5

[] Join a panel of CVD 2024 attendees for a lively AMA (Ask Me Anything) session! Dive deep into the impact of this year's IEEE USA CVD, what resonated most with Congress and IEEE members, and how these insights will shape the future of US policy. This is your chance to get firsthand insights and influence the future of CVD. Don't miss out! Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/420977

The Internet of Things (IoT) is creating a new structure of awareness – a cybernetic one – upon physical processes. Industries of different kinds are expected to join soon this revolution, leading to the so-called Factories of the Future, also known as Industry 5.0. In this talk, (i) we will review the prominent industrial communication standards to date, discussing the rationale behind moving from wired to wireless communications. (ii) We will discuss recent research on technologies & techniques for Industry 5.0. We will first consider millimeter Wave technology to provide reliable wireless network service within factories, where links may experience rapid and temporary fluctuations of the received signal power due to dynamic blockers, such as humans and robots moving in the environment. We will then address the issue of reliability in Industrial IoT (IIoT) in case of missing sensors measurements due to network or hardware problems. We propose to support the fault detection and classification modules, which are the two critical components of a monitoring system for IIoT, with a generative AI model. We will further discuss a framework to capture the semantic knowledge inherent in cyber-physical systems to minimize the use of explicit communication, where all data are acquired with certain goals in mind, like controlling an industrial process. (iii) We will discuss a possible way to perform system-level analysis targeting Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communication (URLLC) systems, looking into trade-offs of radio spectrum vs infrastructure deployment, and inter-operator sharing of spectrum & network infrastructure. (iv) Finally we will look into the main emerging trends of 6G related to Industry 5.0, discussing pros/cons and open research directions of cutting-edge technologies such as Extreme URLLC, Digital Twin, Unmanned Vehicles, and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces. Speaker(s): PROF NICOLA, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/419902