Accelerating Product Development Cycles With Digital Twins and IoT Integration

In today's market, accelerating product development cycles helps businesses gain a competitive edge and meet consumer demands. The integration of digital twins and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies has emerged as a transformative solution, enabling organizations to streamline their design, testing, and production processes. Digital twins allow real-time simulation and monitoring, providing valuable insights into performance, potential issues, and design optimizations. When coupled with IoT businesses can gather continuous feedback throughout the product lifecycle. This accelerates innovation, enhances product quality, and minimizes costs by identifying inefficiencies. By leveraging these technologies, companies can optimize their development cycles and deliver smarter, more reliable products to meet the needs of the marketplace. Accelerating Product Development Cycles With Digital Twins and IoT Integration explores the transformative potential of cutting-edge digital twin technologies in advancing data analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT). It provides a comprehensive analysis of how digital twins enable real-time monitoring, predictive insights, and enhanced decision-making by bridging the physical and digital worlds. This book covers topics such as computational engineering, algorithms, and blockchain, and is a useful resource for business owners, managers, computer engineers, academicians, researchers, and data scientists.

Dr. Udit Mamodiya is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Research) at Poornima University in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. With a robust academic and professional background, he has significantly contributed to the fields of renewable energy sources, reliability analysis, expert systems, and decision support systems. Dr. Mamodiya has authored over 60 research papers indexed in prestigious databases such as SCI, Scopus, and UGC Care, showcasing his commitment to advancing knowledge in his areas of expertise. Additionally, he has authored ten books published by national publishers, further enriching the academic community with valuable resources. An innovator at heart, Dr. Mamodiya holds an impressive portfolio of intellectual property, including 50 utility patents (both national and international) along with 20 design patents and copyrights. His entrepreneurial spirit is exemplified by securing ₹1 Crore in funding from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to establish the IDEA Lab at Poornima University, aimed at fostering innovation and research among students and faculty.

Akhtar Kalam is the Academic Director of Texila College Australia, Melbourne. Concurrently, he is an Emeritus Professor at Victoria University (VU), Melbourne. He has been associated with Victoria University since 1984. He is a former deputy dean of the Faculty of Health, Engineering, and Science, head of engineering, and head of external engagement of the College of Engineering and Science. He is also the current Texila College Australia, Melbourne, Australia Academic Board Chair. In addition, he is the Editor in Chief of the Australian Journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering. Further, he has Distinguished Professorship positions at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; MRS Punjab Technical University – Bhatinda, India; Crescent University – Chennai, India; VIT – Vellore and Chennai, India; 1 Omani institution and 5 Malaysian universities. He has vast experience in educational institutions and industry across four continents. He received his B.Sc. and B.Sc. Engineering from Calcutta University and Aligarh Muslim University, India. He completed his MS and Ph.D. at the University of Oklahoma, USA, and the University of Bath, UK. He has worked with Ingersoll Rand and other electrical manufacturers. He has held teaching appointments at the University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq, and Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education, Rockhampton, Queensland. He has had international and national recognition for his research. He is the first to have received the John Madsen Medal from Engineers Australia in consecutive years 2016, 2019, and 2020. The John Madsen Medal is awarded for the best paper in Australia written by a current member of Engineers Australia and published in The Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Most recently, the prestigious ‘ACPE-CIGRE Outstanding Academic Award (2021) has highlighted his outstanding impact. The award recognizes an exceptional Australasian academic for outstanding career-long contributions to industry, teaching, and research in electric power engineering. On invitation, he regularly delivers lectures, works on industrial projects, and examines external theses (national and international). His major research interests are power system analysis, communication, control, protection, renewable energy, smart grid, cogeneration systems, and IEC61850 implementation. He has been actively teaching Energy Systems to undergraduates and postgraduates and providing professional courses to the industry in Australia and overseas. He regularly offers Continuing Professional Development and Master Class courses on Power System Protection, Renewable Energy, IEC61850, Cogeneration & Gas Turbine Operation, and PBL in engineering education to practicing engineers, the Energy Supply Association of Australia (ESAA), IDC Technologies, and Australian Power Institute (API). He also runs a postgraduate distance education program on Power System Protection for the ESAA. He has conducted research, provided industrial consultancy, published over six hundred publications in his area of expertise, and written over 29 books. More than 49 higher-degree research students have graduated under his supervision. He provides consultancy for major electrical utilities, manufacturers, and other industry bodies in his expertise. Professor Kalam is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Victoria (PEV), a Fellow of EA, IET, AIE, a Life Senior Member of IEEE, NER, APEC Engineer, IntPE (Aus), and a member of CIGRE AP B5 Study Committee.

Dinesh Goyal is a Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, and Director, Poornima Institute of Engineering & Technology. He holds a Ph.D from Suresh Gyan Vihar University in 2014, and also has 16 years of rich experience in teaching with seven years in pure R&D sector of Image Processing, cloud computing/ information security, and over 90 research papers in international publications followed by 21 papers presented in conferences, more than eight of which are SCI/Scopus/Web of Sciences/Thomson Reuter Indexed Journals. Also, in order to have inquisitiveness for the current trends in technology, he has conducted and organized four conferences and five workshops followed by five National paper publications. In addition to this, he has strived to guide mentor over 35 research scholars during his career, followed by eight doctoral guidance with five as supervisor and three as Co-supervisors.