Method to Increase Dependability in a Cloud-Fog-Edge Environment

Robots can be very different, from humanoids to intelligent self-driving cars or just IoT systems that collect and process local sensors’ information. This paper presents a way to increase dependability for information exchange and processing in systems with Cloud-Fog-Edge architectures. In an ideal interconnected world, the recognized and registered robots must be able to communicate with each other if they are close enough, or through the Fog access points without overloading the Cloud. In essence, the presented work addresses the Edge area and how the devices can communicate in a safe and secure environment using cryptographic methods for structured systems. The presented work emphasizes the importance of security in a system’s dependability and offers a communication mechanism for several robots without overburdening the Cloud. This solution is ideal to be used where various monitoring and control aspects demand extra degrees of safety. The extra private keys employed by this procedure further enhance algorithm complexity, limiting the probability that the method may be broken by brute force or systemic attacks.

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Remote Network Control System for Web Service

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.484-485.348 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 484-485 ◽

pp. 348-352

Author(s):

Fang Wang ◽

Chang Liu ◽

Li Lin

Keyword(s):

Control System ◽

Information Exchange ◽

Large Scale ◽

Network Control ◽

Monitoring And Control ◽

Industrial Monitoring ◽

Field Device ◽

Control And Management ◽

Communication Control ◽

And Control

Now computer terminals, communication control, and network technology continues rapidly developed, the rapidly expanding range of information exchange, has been covering the field device to the control and management at all levels of networking, industrial control monitoring is not only limited to on-site monitoring, on-site scheduling. The development of industrial monitoring control system is a history of development of centralized monitoring and control to the network monitoring control. The previous system, the various important instruments status were monitored by the large-scale instruments.

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Information Models and Information Exchange in Plant-wide Monitoring and Control of Industrial Processes

Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management ◽

10.5220/0006960602160222 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

David Hästbacka ◽

Petri Kannisto ◽

Matti Vilkko

Keyword(s):

Information Exchange ◽

Industrial Processes ◽

Monitoring And Control ◽

Information Models ◽

And Control

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Information exchange standards for power system monitoring and control

Fifth International Conference on Power System Management and Control ◽

10.1049/cp:20020024 ◽

2002 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

T. Berry

Keyword(s):

Power System ◽

Information Exchange ◽

Monitoring And Control ◽

System Monitoring ◽

Power System Monitoring ◽

And Control

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On the Assessment of Cyber Risks and Attack Surfaces in a Real-Time Co-Simulation Cybersecurity Testbed for Inverter-Based Microgrids

Energies ◽

10.3390/en14164941 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (16) ◽

pp. 4941

Author(s):

Kirti Gupta ◽

Subham Sahoo ◽

Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi ◽

Frede Blaabjerg ◽

Petar Popovski

Keyword(s):

Real Time ◽

Information Exchange ◽

Communication Systems ◽

Research Work ◽

Cyber Attacks ◽

Future Research ◽

Monitoring And Control ◽

Physical Layers ◽

Attack Surfaces ◽

And Control

The integration of variable distributed generations (DGs) and loads in microgrids (MGs) has made the reliance on communication systems inevitable for information exchange in both control and protection architectures to enhance the overall system reliability, resiliency and sustainability. This communication backbone in turn also exposes MGs to potential malicious cyber attacks. To study these vulnerabilities and impacts of various cyber attacks, testbeds play a crucial role in managing their complexity. This research work presents a detailed study of the development of a real-time co-simulation testbed for inverter-based MGs. It consists of a OP5700 real-time simulator, which is used to emulate both the physical and cyber layer of an AC MG in real time through HYPERSIM software; and SEL-3530 Real-Time Automation Controller (RTAC) hardware configured with ACSELERATOR RTAC SEL-5033 software. A human–machine interface (HMI) is used for local/remote monitoring and control. The creation and management of HMI is carried out in ACSELERATOR Diagram Builder SEL-5035 software. Furthermore, communication protocols such as Modbus, sampled measured values (SMVs), generic object-oriented substation event (GOOSE) and distributed network protocol 3 (DNP3) on an Ethernet-based interface were established, which map the interaction among the corresponding nodes of cyber-physical layers and also synchronizes data transmission between the systems. The testbed not only provides a real-time co-simulation environment for the validation of the control and protection algorithms but also extends to the verification of various detection and mitigation algorithms. Moreover, an attack scenario is also presented to demonstrate the ability of the testbed. Finally, challenges and future research directions are recognized and discussed.

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Data communication mechanism for greenhouse environment monitoring and control: An agent-based IoT system

Information Processing in Agriculture ◽

10.1016/j.inpa.2019.11.002 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 444-455 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Jizhang Wang ◽

Meizheng Chen ◽

Jinsheng Zhou ◽

Pingping Li

Keyword(s):

Data Communication ◽

Environment Monitoring ◽

Monitoring And Control ◽

Agent Based ◽

Communication Mechanism ◽

And Control

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Computers for data, control and simulation

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100106661 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 46 ◽

pp. 920-921

Author(s):

David C. Joy

Keyword(s):

Personal Computers ◽

Monitoring And Control ◽

Data Logging ◽

Data Logger ◽

Operational Conditions ◽

Data Control ◽

The Many ◽

And Control

Personal computers (PCs) are a powerful resource in the EM Laboratory, both as a means of automating the monitoring and control of microscopes, and as a tool for quantifying the interpretation of data. Not only is a PC more versatile than a piece of dedicated data logging equipment, but it is also substantially cheaper. In this tutorial the practical principles of using a PC for these types of activities will be discussed.The PC can form the basis of a system to measure, display, record and store the many parameters which characterize the operational conditions of the EM. In this mode it is operating as a data logger. The necessary first step is to find a suitable source from which to measure each of the items of interest. It is usually possible to do this without having to make permanent corrections or modifications to the EM.

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