Fuad Al Attar currently heads the Sales & Marketing Support for Customer Services of Siemens Digital Factory (DF) and Process Industries & Drives (PD) divisions in the Middle East region.

20+ years’ experience in engineering and EPC project management for industrial automation projects, including design and implementation of large-scale DCS, SCADA, ESD and Fire & Gas systems and industrial communication networks for critical applications.

The recent advances in Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs), Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and the Internet of Things (IoT) have gained high attention in the industrial sector. During the last few years, the concept was tailored to fulfill the stringent requirements of the industrial market in the form of the fourth industrial revolution or “Industry 4.0”.  May manufacturers in the Middle East countries are gradually adopting the concept of industrial WSN in their Smart Fields as they realized the advantages of WSN over the conventional wired sensors’ approach. The keynote speech will address the employment of different industrial WSN standards in the industrial control applications from cost, Quality of Service (QoS), scalability, safety and security perspectives.