Measurement and Applications: The Role of Communication Technologies in Developing Distributed Measurement Systems and Measurement Applications

Communication technologies are of primary importance for today's activity, since they contribute to achieving a lot of services for humans, from simple phone calls to advanced multimedia services, banking activities, and healthcare, to cite a few [1]. They are also the key factor of many measurement applications in the contexts of industry 4.0, transportation, environmental monitoring, telemetering, building automation, and the emerging applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) [2]-[4]. In other words, communication technologies enable the concept of "Networking for measurements"which explains the crucial role of networks for measurement applications.