Introduction to the Industrial Internet of Things

Daria-Smirnova is an industrial IoT architect who bridges operational technology and information technology for smart manufacturing solutions. She holds a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering, focusing on interoperability frameworks for sensor networks and edge gateways. Daria has led deployments of predictive-maintenance platforms using time-series analytics and digital twins. She has published reference designs for MQTT-based telemetry pipelines and secured data flows in multi-vendor environments. Daria regularly presents at IoT conferences and teaches executive seminars on roadmap development for Industry-4.0 transformations. Her ongoing research explores federated learning approaches to protect sensitive production data while enabling cross-site analytics.