IoT Heterogeneous Mesh Network Deployment for Human-in-the-Loop Challenges Towards a Social and Sustainable Industry 4.0

This paper encourages the cooperation of different Internet of Things technologies in industrial environments for avoiding social disruption in novel Industry 4.0 paradigms. For this, green I3A smart factory (GreenISF) scenario is presented, where the deployment of a collaborative mesh network based on Bluetooth low energy (BLE) and long range wide-area network (LoRaWAN) technologies promotes human–machine collaboration towards socially...