A Generalized Architecture for Academic and Industrial Automation and Control via Internet

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 598-610
Author(s):  
Ahmed O. Abdul Salam ◽  

Automation via the internet has recently received considerable attention. The prime objective of internetbased process automation underlies, amongmany others, the feasibility of remote monitoring and control of a wide range of distributed and collaborative experimental and manufacturing tools and machineries. Such emphasis would adopt the recent software and hardware development technologies. This paper investigates the minimal hardware and software requirements to design and implement a fully functional academic and industrial automation system that can be readily attached to the available internet/intranet infrastructure. Three tiers mainly constitute the proposed system, the instrumentation and measurement tier, the software platform (for data collection, processing, displaying, and communication), and the client-server tier. The common controllerbased techniques, such as PLC (Programmable Logic Controllers), SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), and DAQ (Data Acquisition) platforms can be very well employed in such applications without sophistication burdens. Eventually, the ultimate intentions of having engineers and technical operators to monitor, control, maintain, and calibrate factory equipment, or students involved in lab experimentation, from local or remote distances can be successfully achieved around the clock. Previous and current practical implementation examples will be verified to assess the feasibility range of existing techniques and their implications.

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 538
Author(s):  
Nicoleta Cristina Gaitan ◽  
Ioan Ungurean

The development of the smart building concept and building automation field is based on the exponential evolution of monitoring and control technologies. Residents of the smart building must interact with the monitoring and control system. A widely used method is specific applications executed on smartphones, tablets, and PCs with Bluetooth connection to the building control system. At this time, smartphones are increasingly used in everyday life for payments, reading newspapers, monitoring activity, and interacting with smart homes. The devices used to build the control system are interconnected through a specific network, one of the most widespread being the Building Automation and Control Network (BACnet) network. Here, we propose the use of the BACnet Application Layer over Bluetooth. We present a proposal of a concept and a practical implementation that can be used to test and validate the operation of the BACnet Application Layer over Bluetooth.


Author(s):  
M. Nouby

Recent advances in the automation field provide a wide range of scope in control and monitoring of the industrial systems. A very accurate automation system is on high demand in recent times. This paper mainly deals about remote monitoring and control of the induction motor. The main objective is to develop an embedded system to prevent the occurrence of line fault in a three phase system (say induction motor) and to display and control the parameters voltage, speed and temperature of the three phase system using Zig-bee communication technology. An ARM microcontroller is used in this project, which controls the entire operation of the system, which also communicates various parameters from one part of the system to other through Zig-bee technology. To prevent the issues of poor blunder elements and commotion affectability emerging in functional applications, the plan issue is changed into a proportional Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI) structure to understand a vigorous state criticism roughly by quick yield testing .The control objective is encircled with rise time, overshoot and settling time particulars. Subsequent to arriving at the consistent express the controller ought to look after solidness. To fulfill the above prerequisites a quick yield inspecting control calculation is planned with the end goal that the ideal shut circle conduct and shut circle soundness is accomplished. The exhibition of the framework is broke down for controlling the speed through wireless networks.


Author(s):  
Thomas Strasser ◽  
Martijn Rooker ◽  
Gerhard Ebenhofer ◽  
Alois Zoitl ◽  
Christoph Sunder ◽  
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2012 ◽  
Vol 253-255 ◽  
pp. 705-715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Elbanhawi ◽  
Milan Simic

This paper presents one application of industrial robots in the automation of renewable energy production. The robot supports remote performance monitoring and maintenance of salinity gradient solar ponds. The details of the design, setup and the use of the robot sampling station and the remote Data Acquisition (DAQ) system are given here. The use of a robot arm, to position equipment and sensors, provides accurate and reliable real time data needed for autonomous monitoring and control of this type of green energy production. Robot upgrade of solar ponds can be easily integrated with existing systems. Data logged by the proposed system can be remotely accessed, plotted and analysed. Thus the simultaneous and remote monitoring of a large scale network of ponds can be easily implemented. This provides a fully automated solution to the monitoring and control of green energy production operations, which can be used to provide heat and electricity to buildings. Remote real time monitoring will facilitate the setup and operations of several solar ponds around cities.


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