Guest Editorial Special Issue on Communications and Computing for Green Industrial IoT and Smart Grids

With this special issue, the guest editorial team, Drs. Melike Erol-Kantarci, George C. Alexandropoulos, Peter Han Joo Chong, Andrea M. Tonello and Yan Zhang have prepared a selection of excellent articles on novel energy-efficient communication and computing techniques for Industrial IoT (IIoT) and smart grids. The goal of this special issue is to advance and promote significant technological advances in the field. IIoT covers the broad domain of smart grid, smart manufacturing, intelligent transportation and smart cities, and it refers to the combination of IoT technology with big data coming from intelligent processes in those domains. Energy-efficient transmission and processing of this data targets automation, efficiency, and productivity increase. In particular, smart grid can be considered as a typical IIoT example, since it comprises an industrial setting with a large number of IoT devices. Within Green Industrial IoT, smart grid communications, use state-of-the-art communication technologies towards ensuring the reduction of energy consumption, optimal operation of the smart grid, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), as well as coordination between the different smart grid components from generation to distribution and consumption.