I had the opportunity to present our work in a keynote given at the ISM2021 congress – The International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing, in Linz, Austria, which I entitled “Smart development of IoT management systems for Industry 4.0 “during the talk I explained how it is possible to combine IoT with AI and enhance these structures with other disruptive technologies such as Blockchain.

We have been working for years on numerous industrial projects in which the combined use of these technologies is providing numerous success stories. From resource optimization to predictive maintenance, there are many areas that can benefit from models of this type that can now be easily implemented with tools such as deepint.net.

We have presented real use cases and we have also been able to interact with some of the attendees at the conference, as Peter Vojtas or Michael Affenzeller, who have been interested in some of the projects that we have presented in relation to the industrial development of technology to prevent Covid-19 or in the specific use we make of some neural networks in the hybrid AI systems that I have presented.

Participating in this conference has been a great experience, congratulations Dr. Padovano for the organization.

Posted by Juan M. Corchado

Juan Manuel Corchado (15 May 1971, Salamanca, Spain) is Professor at the University of Salamanca. He has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2013 to 2017 and Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Elected as Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He leads the renowned BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology) Research Group, created in 2000. Director of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and President of the AIR Institute, J. M. Corchado is also Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015, Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and Member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL). J. M. Corchado has been president of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and academic coordinator of the University Institute for Research in Art and Animation Technology at the University of Salamanca, as well as researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). He currently combines all his activity with the direction of Master programmes in Security, Digital Animation, Mobile Telephony, Information Systems Management, Internet of Things, Social Media, 3D Design and Printing, Blockchain, Z System, Industry 4.0, Agile Project Management, and Smart Cities & Intelligent Buildings, at the University of Salamanca and his work as editor-in-chief of the journals ADCAIJ (Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal), OJCST (Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology) or Electronics MDPI (Computer Science & Engineering section). J. M. Corchado mainly works on projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Sentiment Analysis. He has recently been included in the board of trustees of the AstraZeneca Foundation, along with other health professionals and researchers recognised for bringing scientific knowledge closer to society.