Smart Biolabs of the Future

This book reviews the advances in data gathering and processing in the  biotech laboratory environment, and it sheds new lights on the various  aspects that are necessary for the implementation of intelligent  laboratory architecture and infrastructure. Smart technologies are  increasingly dominating our everyday lives and have become an  indispensable part of the industrial environment. The laboratory  environment, which has long been rather conservative, has also set out  to adapt smart technologies with regards to Industry 4.0 and the  Internet of Things (IoT) for the laboratory. Due to the heterogeneity of  the existing infrastructure and the often complex work processes,  standardization is slow, e.g. to implement device interfaces or  standardized driver protocols, which are urgently needed to generate  standardized data streams that would be immanent for post-processing of  data.

Divided into 9 chapters, this book offers an authoritative  overview of the diverse aspects in the generation and recording of  uniform data sets in the laboratory, and in the processing of the data  and enabling seamless processing towards machine learning and artificial  intelligence. In the first part of the book, readers will find more  about high throughout systems, automation, robotics, and the evolution  of technology in the laboratory. The second part of the book is devoted  to standardization in lab automation, in which readers will learn more  about some regulatory aspects, the SiLA2 standards, the OPC LADS  (Laboratory and Analytical Device Standard), and FAIR Data  infrastructure.