Abstract
We are in front of a new digital revolution that will transform the way we understand and use services and infrastructures. One of the key factors of this revolution is related to the evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT). Connected sensors will be installed in cities and homes affecting the daily life of people and providing them new ways of performing their daily activities. However, this revolution will also affect business and industry bringing the IoT to the production processes in what is called Industry 4.0. Sensor-enabled manufacturing equipment will allow real time communication, smart diagnosis and autonomous decision making. In this scope, the Industrial Data Spaces (IDS) Association has created a Reference Architecture model that aims to provide a common frame for designing and deploying Industry IoT infrastructures. In this paper, we present an implementation of such Reference Architecture based on FIWARE open source software components (Generic Enablers). We validate the proposed architecture by deploying and testing it in a real industry use case that tries to improve the maintenance and operation of milling machines. We conclude that the FIWARE-based IDS implementation fits the requirements of the IDS Reference Architecture providing open source software suitable to any Industry 4.0 environment.
Highlights
We are in front of a new digital revolution which will transform the way we understand and use services and infrastructures
There are several approaches that solve some of the requirements to be addressed in Industry 4.0, for instance the securitization of Internet of Things (IoT) networks or the use of Big Data techniques to obtain valuable information from the data generated by sensors
The Industrial Data Spaces (IDS) Reference Architecture does provide a versatile and heterogeneous model, which allows the integration of new functionalities, and takes into consideration security aspects to be addressed in industrial environments
Summary
We are in front of a new digital revolution which will transform the way we understand and use services and infrastructures. The new digital life will gravitate around the notion of context, which describes what is happening, where, when, how, etc Thanks to this context, services and applications can access and manage information in several scopes. In this scope, the Industrial Data Space initiative [9] creates a virtual data space for a reliable data exchange among industrial partners and tries to standardize the way in which data is managed, transported and secured in this kind of scenario. Our contribution in this paper is the first open source implementation of the IDS Reference Architecture providing a set of software components that can be deployed in any Industry 4.0 scenario to include the architectural layers defined by IDS. FIWARE is based on a service ecosystem composed of key elements called Generic Enablers (GEs), which encompass a framework that allows the development of smart applications relying on smart services and data management components.
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