Intelligent Monitoring and Control of Industrial Processes Through the Internet

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Poi Loon Tang ◽  
Clarence W. de Silva ◽  
George Wang
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Web Server ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
Industrial Processes ◽  
Main Element ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Process Scheduling ◽  
Multiple Control ◽  
Wide Availability ◽  
And Control

This paper presents a framework for developing a universal network infrastructure that would allow web-based monitoring and control of industrial processes, research facilities, and academic experiments. Internet technology is used here for its versatility, wide availability, and relative low cost. The main element of the infrastructure is a web-server, which connects to multiple control-servers, which in turn are connected to various processing modules within a local industrial facility, Since the web-server is the system centerpiece, which provides smooth information flow, a robust, intelligent, and autonomous scheduling scheme is required. Once such infrastructure is established, remote users in an academic or research environment, or in an industrial environment will be able to carry out a variety of tasks including experiments, monitoring and supervision, process scheduling and reconfiguration, using a web-browser. The flexibility and modularity of the developed networked infrastructure provide the rationale for implementing a multi-level hierarchical monitoring and control structure for a process. The usefulness of such a hierarchical structure is demonstrated through an application example on an industrial fish processing machine, which incorporates intelligent adaptive control.

scholarly journals Multi-Blockchain-Based IoT Data Processing Techniques to Ensure the Integrity of IoT Data in AIoT Edge Computing Environments

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 3515
Author(s):  
Sung-Ho Sim ◽  
Yoon-Su Jeong
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Constant Size ◽  
Computing Environments ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Cloud Servers ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Processing Techniques ◽  
And Control

As the development of IoT technologies has progressed rapidly recently, most IoT data are focused on monitoring and control to process IoT data, but the cost of collecting and linking various IoT data increases, requiring the ability to proactively integrate and analyze collected IoT data so that cloud servers (data centers) can process smartly. In this paper, we propose a blockchain-based IoT big data integrity verification technique to ensure the safety of the Third Party Auditor (TPA), which has a role in auditing the integrity of AIoT data. The proposed technique aims to minimize IoT information loss by multiple blockchain groupings of information and signature keys from IoT devices. The proposed technique allows IoT information to be effectively guaranteed the integrity of AIoT data by linking hash values designated as arbitrary, constant-size blocks with previous blocks in hierarchical chains. The proposed technique performs synchronization using location information between the central server and IoT devices to manage the cost of the integrity of IoT information at low cost. In order to easily control a large number of locations of IoT devices, we perform cross-distributed and blockchain linkage processing under constant rules to improve the load and throughput generated by IoT devices.

scholarly journals DESIGN AND CONTROL OF SPIDER ROBOT MODEL

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-93
Author(s):  
Tan Thanh Nguyen ◽  
Duy Khanh Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Operating System ◽  
High Stability ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Environmental Parameters ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Control Methods ◽  
Multiple Control ◽  
Android Operating System ◽  
And Control ◽  
Mit App Inventor

Robots imitating spider’s moving have many advantages such as flexible movement, high stability, diversity in movements performed, especially in terrain  crossing, in military reconnaissance, in surveying and collecting environmental data in dangerous areas,.... In this article  with the main objective is to exploit multiple control methods to support applications of a spider robot with low-cost, a spider robot with 6 legs and 18 joints was designed. The ESPWROOM-32 module (ESP32-D0WDQ6 chip) and MIT App Inventor were used as the main tools for conducting this research. As a result, the robot is controlled via Bluetooth and Wifi to move, making some actions by self-written software running on the Android operating system. In addition, the robot has the capacity of self-propelled to avoid simple obstacles and send some environmental parameters to the software, including obstacles distance, humidity and temperature.

scholarly journals Low cost driver device for microclimate maintenance in the pre-milking of dairy cattle

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irenilson M. da Silva ◽  
Héliton Pandorfi ◽  
Ângelo J. S. de Vasconcelos ◽  
Renato Laurenti ◽  
Cristiane Guiselini
Keyword(s):  
Dairy Cattle ◽  
Environmental Control ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
System Development ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Cost Driver ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Laboratory Calibration ◽  
Evaporative Cooling System ◽  
And Control

Due to the importance of the environment on animal production and thus environmental control, the study aims to build a system for monitoring and control the meteorological variables, temperature and relative humidity, low cost, which can be associated with an evaporative cooling system (ECS). The system development included all the stages of assembly, test and laboratory calibration, and later the validation of the equipment carried in the field. The validation step showed results which allowed concluding that the system can be safely used in the monitoring of these variables. The controller was efficient in management of the microclimate in the waiting corral and allowed the maintenance of the air temperature within the comfort range for dairy cattle in pre-milking with averaged 25.09 ºC during the afternoon. The equipment showed the lower cost (R$ 325.76) when compared to other middle market (R$ 450.00).

scholarly journals Design and Performance Evaluation of a Low-Cost Autonomous Sensor Interface for a Smart IoT-Based Irrigation Monitoring and Control System

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (17) ◽  
pp. 3643 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abba ◽  
Namkusong ◽  
Lee ◽  
Crespo
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Integrated Design ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Sensors And Actuators ◽  
Irrigation Systems ◽  
Sensor Interface ◽  
Monitoring And Control System ◽  
Autonomous Sensor ◽  
And Control

Irrigation systems are becoming increasingly important, owing to the increase in human population, global warming, and food demand. This study aims to design a low-cost autonomous sensor interface to automate the monitoring and control of irrigation systems in remote locations, and to optimize water use for irrigation farming. An internet of things-based irrigation monitoring and control system, employing sensors and actuators, is designed to facilitate the autonomous supply of adequate water from a reservoir to domestic crops in a smart irrigation systems. System development lifecycle and waterfall model design methodologies have been employed in the development paradigm. The Proteus 8.5 design suite, Arduino integrated design environment, and embedded C programming language are commonly used to develop and implement a real working prototype. A pumping mechanism has been used to supply the water required by the soil. The prototype provides power supply, sensing, monitoring and control, and internet connectivity capabilities. Experimental and simulation results demonstrate the flexibility and practical applicability of the proposed system, and are of paramount importance, not only to farmers, but also for the expansion of economic activity. Furthermore, this system reduces the high level of supervision required to supply irrigation water, enabling remote monitoring and control.

scholarly journals A Cost-Effective Embedded Platform for Greenhouse Environment Control and Remote Monitoring

Agronomy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 936 ◽  
Author(s):  
Radu L. Sumalan ◽  
Nicoleta Stroia ◽  
Daniel Moga ◽  
Vlad Muresan ◽  
Alexandru Lodin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Monitoring ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Agricultural System ◽  
Control Network ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Embedded Platform ◽  
Environment Control ◽  
Functional Features ◽  
And Control

This paper presents the development of a cost-effective automatic system for greenhouse environment control. The architectural and functional features were analyzed in the context of the realization of a controlled-environment agricultural system through all its stages: installation, deployment of the software, integration, maintenance, crop control strategy setup and daily operation of the grower. The proposed embedded platform provides remote monitoring and control of the greenhouse environment and is implemented as a distributed sensing and control network integrating wired and wireless nodes. All nodes were built with low-cost, low-power microcontrollers. The key issues that were addressed include the energy-efficient control, the robustness of the distributed control network to faults and a low-cost hardware implementation. The translation of the supervisory growth-planning information to the operational (control network) level is achieved through a specific architecture residing on a crop planning module (CPM) and an interfacing block (IB). A suite of software applications with flows and interfaces developed from a grower-centric perspective was designed and implemented on a multi-tier architecture. The operation of the platform was validated through implementation of sensing and control nodes, application of software for configuration and visualization, and deployment in typical greenhouses.

Appropriate Industrial Waste Management Technologies: The New Zealand Meat Industry

1991 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Rao Bhamidimarri
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Meat Industry ◽  
Meat Processing ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Organic Solid ◽  
Industrial Waste Management ◽  
Processing Wastes ◽  
And Control

The concepts of effluent irrigation and aerobic composting of organic solid wastes are not new, but the meat industry in New Zealand has developed these concepts further in recent years for effective treatment and recovery of resource in meat processing wastes. Significant advances have been made in developing design, operation, monitoring and control of these low-cost simple technologies, which are well suited for the treatment and utilization of meat industry wastes in New Zealand. The feasibility of utilizing these high-strength organic wastes for organic farming has been demonstrated.

Study on Facilities Agriculture Remote Monitor and Control System Based on Tri-Networks Convergence

2014 ◽  
Vol 1073-1076 ◽  
pp. 1875-1878
Author(s):  
Li Juan Shi ◽  
Xiu Xia Yu ◽  
Jian Zhao ◽  
Qin Sheng Du
Keyword(s):  
Radio Frequency ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Remote Transmission ◽  
Control Information ◽  
3G Network ◽  
Remote Controller ◽  
And Control

Facility agriculture environment monitoring system of the existing main adopts the wired communication technology, such as serial bus technology and field bus technology for communication. This system has the advantages of good interoperability, strong anti-interference ability, but the poor stability, low reliability, difficult to deploy, installation and maintenance costs high, which greatly limits its application in the design of facilities agriculture field. Three nets fusion refers to the 3G, RFID and Internet combination. In this paper, the 3G network, wireless radio frequency technology and Internet technology combining, in order to solve the above problems, the use of 3G network and the Internet to a large amount of data real-time remote transmission, using radio frequency network RFID technology through the short distance wireless data transmission terminal sensors to collect information, these information in time through the3G network and the Internet are transmitted to the the remote controller. The remote controller sends according to terminal sensor control information, through the 3G network and the Internet will control information is transmitted to the radio frequency network, wireless RF network through wireless communication control information is transmitted to the terminal controller, the final completion of the remote monitoring and control of agricultural facilities. The experimental results show that, the system can meet the real-time and can perform remote transmission for large data, provide the technical basis of visual audio data monitoring information transmission for agricultural facilities.

The Monitoring and Control of Burners Co-Firing Coal and Biomass

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Valliappan ◽  
K. Jagiełło ◽  
S. J. Wilcox
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Pilot Scale ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Operational Parameters ◽  
Monitoring And Control System ◽  
Flame Monitoring ◽  
And Control

The monitoring and control of combustion systems co-firing coal and biomass is a critical consideration when aiming to increase the proportion of biomass being combusted. This is because it is likely that the combustion will become increasingly unstable as the biomass proportion increases. In order to develop a flame monitoring and control system, flame signal data sets were collected from combustion measurements taken on a 500kW pilot scale combustion test facility. The sensors used were photodiodes with sensitivities in the UV, visible and IR wavelengths. The analysis of these data, identified flame features that can be related to operational parameters such as flame stability, excess air level, NOx and CO emissions. These features were then applied in the development of an intelligent flame monitoring and optimisation system for individual burners based on these low cost sensors. The testing of the monitoring and control system on a pilot scale burner and at full scale are described in this paper.

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