Preface viiPart I Industry 4.0 Drivers 11 Connectivity through Wireless Communications and Sensors 32 Blockchain and Smart Contracts 593 Robotics: A Key Driver of Industry 4.0 734 Cloud Computing and Its Impact on Industry 4.0: An Overview 995 Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Industry 4.0Technologies 121Part II Industry 4.0 Technologies 1596 Multi-Vector Internet of Energy (IoE): A Key Enabler for the Integration of Conventional and Renewable Power Generation 1617 The Economic Implication of Integrating Investment Planning and Generation Scheduling: The Application of Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning 1898 A Systematic Method for Wireless Sensor Placement: A Fault-Tolerant Communi cation Solution for Monitoring Water Distribution Networks 2219 An Overview of the Evolution of Oil and Gas 4.0 24110 Electrification of Transportation: Transition Toward Energy Sustainability 26911 Computer-Aided Molecular Design: Accelerating the Commercialization Cycle 29712 Pharmaceutical Industry: Challenges and Opportunities for Establishing Pharma 4.0 31313 Additive Manufacturing: A Game-Changing Paradigm in Manufacturing and Supply Chains 339Glossary 359Index 371
Mahdi Sharifzadeh, PhD, is a higher education professional with research interests in Industry 4.0 technological domains and quantification of their technical progress. Moreover, he has extensively contributed to addressing challenging problems in energy and environmental systems engineering, including highly integrated power generation, smart electricity grids with a high penetration of renewable solar and wind power, detangling greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from water-energy nexus, artificial intelligence for predicting renewable power generation and electricity demand, multiscale carbon capture and storage, resilient design and operation of multi-vector energy networks, multi-scale systems engineering of renewable fuel and commodity products, and more.