Enhancing CPS Architectures with SOA for Industry 4.0 Enterprise Systems

Abstract

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) integrates computing and communication resources with sensing and actuation functionalities, for physical world entities and processes. CPS realizes connections of the computational and communications infrastructures with the physical reality. Integrating the Internet of Things (IoT) technology, CPS is already involved in various applications in building industrial systems, according to the Industry 4.0 concept. Internal and cross-organizational services associated with the production value chains can also be realized. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) proved to be an efficient approach for CPS architectures, being able to cope with the heterogeneity of the industrial systems, to assure interoperability. In this paper we propose a CPS architecture, using a SOA approach, integrating a Soap ad Rest and based gateway, which enables a seamless interoperability within the industrial and manufacturing processes and services providing in business environment. Through the gateway, the CPS resources and services can be accessed by mobile clients through Smartphones.