Configuration-Making Algorithm for the Smart Machine Controller Based on the Internet of Things Concept

Abstract

This article focuses on the approaches of selecting cost-effective solutions to configurations of hardware components in digital systems (in particular, smart machines) by the combinatorial optimization method. A search for the solution to the application of cross-functional or special-purpose hardware components for LoT devices is a multi-criteria objective. The proposed selection algorithm for the configuration of hardware components feeds on rigorous formalization and ranking of qualitative indicators, parameters and key features of the components in question. The authors have applied the algorithm in the MatLab environment in order to choose the best configuration of hardware components for the smart machine intended to be a core of an intelligent control unit for an analysis of AC network parameters and control over the actuating electromechanical devices. The results of the analysis have become a ground for the development of the special-purpose controller for an intelligent module of the smart machine. The synthetic solution to a configuration of the smart controller provides an analysis of monitoring data. It can also make it possible for the smart machine to transfer data via a service interface to an external automation controller, which remotely disconnects the machine at the command of a user. The result of the design procedure is the advisable configuration of the special-purpose smart machine controller intended to analyze the AC network parameters obtained using the proposed design methodology.