Abstract
Precision of production in industry is a hot area and companies are seeking for solutions to make data-drive decisions to optimize the processes of production and calculate gain/loss during manufacturing. Making a right decision with huge reports always takes time and executive or decision makers always seek user-friendly, automatised applications to help.
This paper offers a server-side infrastructure for IoT applications that targets to provide an end-to-end solution to smart factories on production lines. Solution designed as a middleware application in which northbound and southbound systems are connected to each other. Collected data is stored and integrated with BI tool to present gain/loss during production to executive management and same output can be used for MES-MOM operations. OPC-UA is selected as southbound protocol as it can be considered the most used protocol in industrial IoT. Moreover, solution can be enhanced with any other protocol with slight changes in configurations.
A server-side infrastructure for IoT applications is proposed to help smart factories make data-driven decisions and optimize production processes.
This paper presents a system-independent server-side infrastructure for IoT applications in smart factories. The solution is designed as a middleware application that connects northbound and southbound systems, allowing data to be stored and integrated with business intelligence tools. The infrastructure uses OPC-UA as the southbound protocol, which is widely used in industrial IoT, and can be enhanced with other protocols with minimal changes.
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