AI-Enabled IIoT for Live Smart City Event Monitoring

Abstract

Recent advancements of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) have revolutionized modern urbanization and smart cities. While IIoT data contain rich events and objects of interest, processing a massive amount of IIoT data and making predictions in real-time are challenging. Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) allow processing such a massive amount of IIoT data and generating insights for further decision-making processes. In this article, we propose several key aspects of AI-enabled IIoT data for smart city monitoring. First, we have combined a human-intelligence-enabled crowdsourcing application with that of an AI-enabled IIoT framework to capture events and objects from IIoT data in real time. Second, we have combined multiple AI algorithms that can run on distributed edge and cloud nodes to automatically categorize the captured events and objects and generate analytics, reports, and alerts from the IIoT data in real time. The results can be utilized in two scenarios. In the first scenario, the smart city authority can authenticate the AI-processed events and assign these events to the appropriate authority for managing the events. In the second scenario, the AI algorithms are allowed to interact with humans or IIoT for further processes. Finally, we will present the implementation details of the scenarios mentioned above and the test results. The test results show that the framework has the potential to be deployed within a smart city.