Abstract
Constant search for efficiency and productivity has led to innovation on the factory shop floor, representing an evolution of the current production systems combined with new technologies of industrial automation and information technology. This work presents a versatile gateway for experimental demonstration of Industrial IoT technologies in a loom machine, allowing sensing, monitoring and data acquisition that was not originally available. We have implemented an approach, based on the OPC UA communication protocol for real time applications, and OPC UA to MQTT conversion mechanism. Raspberry Pi’s platform act as an OPC UA server. From the measurements, data stored in a cloud server can be accessed remotely with improved security and visualized from a computer dashboard. One of the conclusions that can be drawn is that the proposed gateway allows data to be stored and easily monitored from a smartphone application or a computer web interface.
Highlights
Recent years witnessed the forthcoming of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) networks as an efficient means to provide automated communications between distributed devices
The Portuguese industrial sector follows this trend and searches to technologically re-adapt its production processes to include sensing, monitoring and control functionalities, allowing efficient communication with the equipment on the shop floor with Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) platforms [1,2,3]. This is the case of the label loom machines industry
The loom machine, known as the Jacquard machine, is an industrial device fitted to a power loom that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles labels with complex patterns
Summary
Recent years witnessed the forthcoming of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) networks as an efficient means to provide automated communications between distributed devices. The idea of Smart Industry is gaining increasing importance in the current context because of its ability to automate industrial environments with great effectiveness using smart systems These systems incorporate detection, actuation and control functionalities. The Portuguese industrial sector follows this trend and searches to technologically re-adapt its production processes to include sensing, monitoring and control functionalities, allowing efficient communication with the equipment on the shop floor with Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) platforms [1,2,3]. This is the case of the label loom machines industry. The remaining of the paper is structured as follow: section 2 describes the system architecture, section 3 presents the gateway design, section 4 follows with the prototype test and results and section 5 present the conclusions
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