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Digitalization, Information Technology and Social Development

A special issue of Telecom (ISSN 2673-4001).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 June 2024 | Viewed by 1489

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Przemysław Falkowski-Gilski

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Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, Gdansk University of Technology, Narutowicza 11/12, 80-233 Gdansk, Poland
Interests: audio; broadcasting; coding; compression; digitization; mobile technologies; multimedia; positioning; signal processing; speech processing; video; wireless communication
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Currently, we live in a digital society filled with cutting-edge ICT solutions. Mobile devices, apps, e-services, etc., are available at any time and everywhere. As we speak, more and more branches of both business and governance are migrating to the digital domain. Digitization itself is present in the broadcasting industry such as radio and television, as well as various multimedia-based services. With the aid of mobile devices, applications, and related technologies, we desire to stay healthy or monitor the parameters of our relatives, including young people and the elderly, as well as ourselves. Nowadays, some technologies seem to be limited only to use by their creators.

However, there are still parts of our planet that suffer from digital division. Access to the latest modern-day solutions may be limited because of numerous factors, including access to education, labor markets, etc. With the aid of academics and professionals, the quality of life of such individuals can be improved.

In this Special Issue, we invite the scientific community to publish works focused on digitalization, information technology, and social development.

Original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Bridging the digital divide;
  • Broadcasting and communication systems;
  • E-business, e-commerce, and e-governance;
  • E-health and telemedicine;
  • Media digitization;
  • Quality of life;
  • Smart cities, schools, and education.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Przemysław Falkowski-Gilski
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Telecom is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1200 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • broadcasting
  • communication systems
  • digital divide
  • e-business
  • e-commerce
  • e-governance
  • e-health
  • media digitization
  • quality of life
  • smart cities
  • smart education
  • smart schools
  • telemedicine

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Smart Detection System of Safety Hazards in Industry 5.0
by Stavroula Bourou, Apostolos Maniatis, Dimitris Kontopoulos and Panagiotis A. Karkazis
Telecom 2024, 5(1), 1-20; https://doi.org/10.3390/telecom5010001 - 22 Dec 2023
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Abstract
Safety management is a priority to guarantee human-centered manufacturing processes in the context of Industry 5.0, which aims to realize a safe human–machine environment based on knowledge-driven approaches. The traditional approaches for safety management in the industrial environment include staff training, regular inspections, [...] Read more.
Safety management is a priority to guarantee human-centered manufacturing processes in the context of Industry 5.0, which aims to realize a safe human–machine environment based on knowledge-driven approaches. The traditional approaches for safety management in the industrial environment include staff training, regular inspections, warning signs, etc. Despite the fact that proactive measures and procedures have exceptional importance in the prevention of safety hazards, human–machine–environment coupling requires more sophisticated approaches able to provide automated, reliable, real-time, cost-effective, and adaptive hazard identification in complex manufacturing processes. In this context, the use of virtual reality (VR) can be exploited not only as a means of human training but also as part of the methodology to generate synthetic datasets for training AI models. In this paper, we propose a flexible and adjustable detection system that aims to enhance safety management in Industry 5.0 manufacturing through real-time monitoring and identification of hazards. The first stage of the system contains the synthetic data generation methodology, aiming to create a synthetic dataset via VR, while the second one concerns the training of AI object detectors for real-time inference. The methodology is evaluated by comparing the performance of models trained on both real-world data from a publicly available dataset and our generated synthetic data. Additionally, through a series of experiments, the optimal ratio of synthetic and real-world images is determined for training the object detector. It has been observed that even with a small amount of real-world data, training a robust AI model is achievable. Finally, we use the proposed methodology to generate a synthetic dataset of four classes as well as to train an AI algorithm for real-time detection. Full article
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