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ReviewSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2026

TinyML in Industrial IoT: A Systematic Review of Applications, System Components, and Methodologies.

Shahad Alharthi, Muhammad Rashid, Malak Aljabri

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Review in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Shahad AlharthiDepartment of Computer and Network Engineering, College of Computing, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah 21955, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0009-0004-3415-8487
Muhammad RashidDepartment of Computer and Network Engineering, College of Computing, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah 21955, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-5852-1296
Malak AljabriDepartment of Computer and Network Engineering, College of Computing, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah 21955, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-9255-6094

Funding

Umm al-Qura University 26UQU44680117GSSR01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) enables Machine Learning (ML) models to run on resource-constrained devices, which is critical for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems requiring low latency, energy efficiency, and local decision-making. Nevertheless, deploying TinyML in IIoT remains challenging due to diverse applications, hardware, frameworks, and deployment methodologies, highlighting the need for a structured and focused review. Existing review articles mainly address general IoT or edge AI, leaving a critical gap in a unified and systematic understanding of TinyML applications, system components, and methodologies within IIoT contexts. Consequently, this systematic literature review (SLR) addresses this gap by analyzing 35 peer-reviewed studies published between 2018 and 2026, offering a comprehensive and structured synthesis of TinyML-enabled IIoT systems. The selected works are synthesized across three major dimensions: applications, system components, and methodologies. In terms of applications, TinyML is primarily used for predictive maintenance, equipment monitoring, anomaly detection, energy management, and general-purpose applications. The general category captures cross-domain solutions that do not fit into a single industrial application. A comparative analysis of all application categories is conducted in terms of accuracy, latency, memory, and energy. For system components, a structured comparison shows how hardware, software, and sensing choices shape performance and applicability. Hardware platforms are grouped by microcontroller families, highlighting dominant types. Software frameworks are summarized, showing the widespread use of lightweight toolchains for on-device inference. Sensor types are categorized, with vibration sensing most common. They are supported by other sensing methods such as vision, sound (acoustic), and environmental sensors. Finally, the methodologies examined in this SLR provide a comprehensive view of the data foundations, model selection, and optimization strategies. In short, this SLR converges diverse TinyML-IIoT applications, microcontroller-based hardware, lightweight software frameworks, sensing modalities, varied datasets, and optimization strategies, while also identifying challenges and future research directions.

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edge intelligenceindustrial internet of things (IIoT)machine learningmodel optimizationon-device inferenceresource-constrained devicesTinyML

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PMID42076659
PMCPMC13120165

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