The growing complexity of data derived from Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems presents substantial challenges for traditional machine-learning techniques, which struggle to effectively manage the needs of predictive maintenance applications. Automated machine-learning (AutoML) techniques present a promising solution by streamlining the machine-learning process, reducing the necessity for manual hyperparameter tuning and computational resources, thereby positioning themselves as a potentially transformative innovation in the Industry 4.0 era. This research introduces two distinct models: AutoML, employing PyCaret, and Auto Deep Neural Network (AutoDNN), utilizing AutoKeras, both aimed at accurately identifying various types of faults in ball bearings. The proposed models were evaluated using the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) bearing faults dataset, and the results showed a notable performance in terms of achieving high accuracy, recall, precision, and F1 score on the testing and validation sets. Compared to recent studies, the proposed AutoML models demonstrated superior performance, surpassing alternative approaches even when they utilized a larger number of features, thus highlighting the effectiveness of the proposed methodology. This research offers valuable insights for those interested in harnessing the potential of AutoML techniques in IIoT applications, with implications for industries such as manufacturing and energy. By automating the machine-learning process, AutoML models can help decrease the time and cost related to predictive maintenance, which is crucial for industries where unplanned downtime can lead to substantial financial losses.

Diabetes is a chronic disease that can affect human health negatively when the glucose levels in the blood are elevated over the creatin range called hyperglycemia. The current devices for continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) supervise the glucose level in the blood and alert user to the type-1 Diabetes class once a certain critical level is surpassed. This can lead the body of the patient to work at critical levels until the medicine is taken in order to reduce the glucose level, consequently increasing the risk of causing considerable health damages in case of the intake is delayed. To overcome the latter, a new approach based on cutting-edge software and hardware technologies is proposed in this paper. Specifically, an artificial intelligence deep learning (DL) model is proposed to predict glucose levels in 30 min horizons. Moreover, Cloud computing and IoT technologies are considered to implement the prediction model and combine it with the existing wearable CGM model to provide the patients with the prediction of future glucose levels. Among the many DL methods in the state-of-the-art (SoTA) have been considered a cascaded RNN-RBM DL model based on both recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and restricted Boltzmann machines (RBM) due to their superior properties regarding improved prediction accuracy. From the conducted experimental results, it has been shown that the proposed Cloud&DL-based wearable approach achieves an average accuracy value of 15.589 in terms of RMSE, then outperforms similar existing blood glucose prediction methods in the SoTA.

Gas sweetening is a fundamental step in gas treatment processes for environmental and safety concerns. One of the most extensively used and largely recognized solvents for gas sweetening is methyl diethanolamine (MDEA). One of the most crucial metrics for measuring the effectiveness of gas...

Wavelet-based Pre-filtering for Low Cost Inertial Sensors

Global positioning system (GPS) has been extensively used for land vehicle navigation systems. However, GPS is incapable of providing permanent and reliable navigation solutions in the presence of signal evaporation or blockage. On the other hand, navigation systems, in particular, inertial navigation systems (INSs), have become important components in different military and civil applications due to the recent advent of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). Both INS and GPS systems are often paired together to provide a reliable navigation solution by integrating the long-term GPS accuracy with the short-term INS accuracy. This article presents an alternative method to integrate GPS and INS systems and provide a robust navigation solution. This alternative approach to Kalman filtering (KF) utilizes artificial intelligence based on adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) to fuse data from both systems and estimate position and velocity errors. The KF is usually criticized for working only under predefined models and for its observability problem of hidden state variables, sensor error models, immunity to noise, sensor dependency, and linearization dependency. The training and updating of ANFIS parameters is one of the main problems. Therefore, the challenges encountered implementing an ANFIS module in real time have been overcome using particle swarm optimization (PSO) to optimize the ANFIS learning parameters since PSO involves less complexity and has fast convergence. The proposed alternative method uses GPS with INS data and PSO to update the intelligent PANFIS navigator using GPS/INS error as a fitness function to be minimized. Three methods of optimization have been tested and compared to estimate the INS error. Finally, the performance of the proposed alternative method has been examined using real field test data of MEMS grade INS integrated with GPS for different GPS outage periods. The results obtained outperform KF, particularly during long GPS signal blockage.