Preface

This is the first edition of our book “Application of AI and IOT in human lives, societies and industries”. The main aim of this book is to present the intricate concept to professionals, academicians, students, and researchers in detail. This book presents a detailed and thorough discussion of the domain of IOT and applications of AI and its allied applications in many connected diversified fields. The green environment around us is being affected daily by different technological activities. Protecting and preserving the green environment has become the prime challenge in the modern age of technological revolution. The modest use of this technology with a harmless approach to solve real-life problems has become of prime interest. The detailed views of how modern-day technologies are being spawned by the AI and IOT and have been successfully applied in the industries, human lives and societies to preserve the green resources is the focal point of this book. The theories and principles of soft computing and deep learning have been incorporated as the key tools for industrial automation. The concept of IOT and machine learning has been the main aspect of many industrial problems. These have been elaborated into books with relevant works in the concerned research fields. The topics like architecture, infrastructural aspects, safety systems, prediction models, and sustainable and smart manufacturing systems based on the principles of IOT, have been addressed. Each chapter consisting of the research papers has been well organised keeping in view the target audiences. The order of chapters is arranged in such a way so that the readers can be exposed to the subject of research and can easily correlate with the technological growth pattern used in the application.

The application-oriented approach is the unique feature of this book. Apart from the theoretical discussion, the problems and the allied case studies concerned with the topics discussed in this book are worthy of the interest of readers. The problems and their possible solutions through different models furnished in this book are crucial to researchers and academicians. This book comprises the state of the art information on various other subjects directly or indirectly connected to the main topic of the book.

An elaborate discussion on the topics relevant to the broad scopes of IoT and AI in human lives and in the advancement of industrial technologies has been presented under the proposed title. Some of the significant topics are the Applications of AI and IOT in the reduction of e-waste, agricultural sustainability, species protection, checking air pollution and water pollution, generating renewable energies, building smart cities and health care systems, and the revolution of industries. Under each concerned title, the elaborative explorations of AI and IoT along with their architectural nitty-gritty have been given. The new multidisciplinary approaches like soft computing, deep learning in AI, and application of different devices related to the IOT-based applications are some names to mention.

A massive advancement of technology and its productive outcomes have been realized in the field of agriculture in terms of the large yield of the crops and the abetment of plant diseases. Extensive research in the field of IOT has made the early detection of crop diseases possible. The advent of drones and the research works in the hybrid fields of IOT and image processing have also resulted in the large-scale reduction of time and money consumption and economic benefits across the whole country and globe.

Automation and optimization have become the buzzword in the industrial revolution. The application of such trends has become accelerated with a much deeper approach adopted by researchers in the fields of AI, ML, and IOT. The multifaceted application of IOT and AI along with ML has been of utmost need for researchers, students and professionals. Past research works and their continuation as a key to the modern research domain have been explored in this book thoroughly. The novel research contribution of eminent authors and researchers has been integrated in a judicial way to make the readers aware of the ongoing research and the probable future directions in this field.

Some new challenging areas and their corresponding research scopes have also been discussed. The traditional industry and the trends of its further evolution with the ever-progressing technologies along with new inventions and discoveries in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, IOT and other technologies have been discussed on comparative grounds. The strongly emphasized area in the proposed book is the current trends in AI, machine learning, and IoT. Industry automation has become a key issue for manufacturing companies. The strategies, principles, and broad applications of different automation plans and the relevant research in this area have been explored much meticulously with maximum thrusts given to the intelligence domain and research carried out there.

There are some important practical implications of the book for manufacturing companies, which are presented below.

Research on planning and strategizing in the field of intelligence and IOT, and in allied fields like healthcare, smart cities, electrical grid industries, etc. can broaden the economic benefits of the industries to greater extents. Several optimization techniques will obviously be of great help to the manufacturers in industries as these will effectively manipulate the resources and raw materials for improved and large-scale production purposes and technological growth.

Keeping in mind the research students of different streams of engineering domain, some additional aspects have also been addressed in this book. The most emphasized aspects are listed below.

1. Each chapter of the book contains relevant papers specific to the topic with the elucidation of problems.
2. Many references provided at the end of the chapter will be beneficial to the readers of the book.
3. Many website links relevant to the subject matter have been shared at the end of each chapter.
4. The problems related to the chapters have also been addressed with programs written in the Python language.
5. The broad discussion of all the concerned and relevant domains in the field of automation has been carried out with much deeper insights into the field of research.
6. Case studies related to different manufacturing companies addressing the real-life aspect of the industry have become the main feature of the proposed title.
7. All the up-to-mark and modern technological growth factors controlling the pathways of automation in human lives and industries have been broadly touched upon.
8. The extensive reviews of each of the technologically escalated research domains and the insights into the domain-specific aspect of application have become the primal focal and thrust area of this book.
9. The generalised concepts and specialised approaches in the concerned research domain have become the unique characteristic feature of the book.

The overall content of the book is divided into three different tiers. Fundamental, functional and advanced tiers. The fundamental tier caters to the students and comprises the basics of the subjects. The functional aspect on the other hand is broader with the advanced part more analytic and meant for the researchers and professionals.

We must express our sincere thanks with loads of acknowledgements to our colleagues, friends, and students for their innumerable valued suggestions and feedback to develop this book in the present shape. We must express our heartfelt gratitude to our family members, as without their support and patience, this book would have been an impossible task. Lastly, we must be very grateful and thankful to the editors of Bentham Science Publishers.

We wish every reader an insightful, perceptional, and informative journey into this book, presenting you the world of IOT and AI from different human perspectives, with respect to different societies and industries as well.