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Existing optimization methods often fail to adapt in real-time or scale adequately under variable conditions, exposing a critical gap in resource management strategies for dense deployments. The present study proposes a granular computing framework designed for dynamic resource optimization in IoT environments to address this. The methodology comprises three key stages: granular decomposition to divide tasks and resources into manageable grains, granular aggregation to reduce computational load through data fusion, and adaptive granular selection to refine resource allocation based on current system states. These techniques were implemented and evaluated in a controlled industrial IoT testbed comprising over 80 devices. Comparative experiments against heuristic and AI-based baselines revealed statistically significant improvements: a 25% increase in processing throughput, a 20% reduction in energy consumption, and a 60% decrease in error rate. 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