IIoT Platform Segmentation for Scalable Heterogeneous Sensor Networks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing Industrial Internet of Things systems face challenges in scalability and flexibility due to heterogeneity of sensor data and a large number of sensors, requiring complex gateway configurations that struggle with data processing, transmission, and heterogeneity adaptability.
Innovation Solution
The proposed Industrial Internet of Things system adopts an independent layout for the service and sensor network platforms with centralized management, utilizing multiple sub-platforms with shared communication protocols, data processing, and machine learning models for data supplementation, enabling efficient data storage, processing, and transmission across diverse sensors.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Power
If a centralized gateway configuration is used to handle sensor data, then data processing capacity is improved, but device complexity and difficulty of adapting to heterogeneous sensors increase
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway is divided into multiple sub-platforms, each responsible for handling data from specific sensors or sensor types. This segmentation reduces the complexity of the centralized gateway while maintaining data processing capacity, as each sub-platform can be independently configured and managed.
Solution Approach 2:
An independent service platform is introduced as an intermediary between the sensor network platform and the management platform. This service platform handles data processing and transmission, reducing the burden on the gateway and simplifying its configuration while maintaining strong data processing capabilities.
2Measurement precision
If multiple heterogeneous sensors are integrated into the system, then measurement precision and data accuracy are improved, but device complexity and difficulty of operation increase
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway sub-platforms are designed with universal data processing capabilities that can handle multiple types of sensor data through standardized interfaces. This allows the system to integrate diverse heterogeneous sensors while maintaining ease of operation, as the same sub-platform architecture can accommodate different sensor types.
Solution Approach 2:
The service platform acts as an intermediary that standardizes data from heterogeneous sensors before transmitting to the management platform. This intermediary layer handles the complexity of heterogeneous data formats, allowing accurate integration of multiple sensor types while keeping the overall system easy to operate.
3Productivity
If the Industrial Internet of Things system expands in scale, then productivity and system capability are improved, but device complexity and adaptability requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system is segmented into independent sub-platforms that can be independently scaled and configured. This segmentation enables the system to expand in scale by adding more sub-platforms without increasing overall complexity, as each sub-platform maintains a standardized structure that can be replicated.
Solution Approach 2:
The gateway sub-platforms are designed with dynamic configuration capabilities, allowing them to adapt to different sensor types and data formats as the system expands. This dynamic adaptability enables the system to grow in capability while maintaining ease of integration for new components.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure provides an Industrial Internet of Things system conducive to system scalability and control method thereof. The system comprises a user platform, a service platform, a management platform, a sensor network platform, and an object platform. The service platform or the sensor network platform adopts independent layout. The service platform and the sensor network platform both include sub platforms and each sub platform is provided with a database, a processor, and/or an information channel. The object platform includes a production line, and the production line is configured with a plurality of sensors. In each sub platform of the sensor network platform, a same communication protocol is used with the sensors connected to a same sub platform of the sensor network platform. Any sub platform of the sensor network platform is connected with a unique sub platform of the service platform through the management platform.