Abstract
The field of cyber-physical systems is a growing IT research area that addresses the deep integration of computing, communication and process control, possibly with humans in the loop. The goal of such area is to define modelling, controlling and programming methodologies for designing and managing complex mechatronics systems, also called industrial agents. Our research topic mainly focuses on the area of data mining and analysis by means of multi-agent orchestration of intelligent sensor nodes using internet protocols, providing also web-based HMI visualizations for data interpretability and analysis. Thanks to the rapid spreading of IoT systems, supported by modern and efficient telecommunication infrastructures and new decentralized control paradigms, the field of service-oriented programming finds new application in wireless sensor networks and microservices paradigm: we adopted such paradigm in the implementation of two different industrial use cases. Indeed, we expect a concrete and deep use of such technologies with 5G spreading. In the article, we describe the common software architectural pattern in IoT applications we used for the distributed smart sensors, providing also design and implementation details. In the use case section, the prototypes developed as proof of concept and the KPIs used for the system validation are described to provide a concrete solution overview.
Highlights
The field of cyber-physical systems is an industrial IT and automation research topic that addresses the deep integration of computing, communication and process control with humans in the loop (Figure 1), with the final goal to define modelling, controlling and programming methodologies for managing industrial mechatronics systems [1]
The last topic needs special attention since historically there is a different velocity in technology development and EOF management development [3]; the interesting aspect with distributed systems, like cyber-physical systems, is that there is no more a monolithic and “time-constant” product, but the product definition is the temporary configuration and state of several atomic entities that in a certain time cooperate and participate in the definition of a more complex ecosystem
SMEs that struggle in the adoption of such advanced IT solutions. Such knowledge sharing was organized using Agile SCRUM framework in order to have in the loop company personnel as main stakeholders for methodology and technology learning
Summary
The field of cyber-physical systems is an industrial IT and automation research topic that addresses the deep integration of computing, communication and process control with humans in the loop (Figure 1), with the final goal to define modelling, controlling and programming methodologies for managing industrial mechatronics systems [1]. For this reason, it is important to structure end-toend life-cycle management systems with special attention on configuration management and centralized monitoring systems to tackle such complexity, focusing on legibility and smart human-machine interfaces. It is important to structure end-toend life-cycle management systems with special attention on configuration management and centralized monitoring systems to tackle such complexity, focusing on legibility and smart human-machine interfaces Sensors 2021, 21, x FOR PEER REVIEW economy and smart supply chain systems, simplifying data exchange among different companies and systems involved in different tasks of the end-to-end process Involved in such context there are operation, like distribution, waste management, recycling [5]
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