The fourth industrial revolution paradigm places value on the management of information related to manufacturing process. Reference Architectural Model for Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0), proposed by Plattform (I4.0), provides a starting point development I4.0 systems, based on: (1) international standards organized in cubic model; (2) set key concepts define system participants, called components; and (3) list infrastructure services required manage components support them execution applications....

The sustainable development goals (SDGs) reflect the relevance that sustainability is gaining in our societies. Including sustainability-related topics university curricula requires revision of contents, teaching/learning strategies and assessment techniques. Although engineering degrees are starting to introduce them, it may become complex design significant educational experiences. This partly comes from fact a highly multidisciplinary issue but, currently, knowledge compartmentalised into...

Sensor web systems, cyber-physical and the so-called Internet of Things are concepts that share a set common characteristics. The nature such systems is highly dynamic very heterogeneous issues as interoperability, energy consumption, or resource management must be properly managed to ensure operation applications within required quality service level. In this context, base technologies component based software engineering Service Oriented Architecture can play central role. Model driven...

With cloud computing gaining momentum in industrial environments, the next step seems to move infrastructure closer devices that collect data at plant level. Fog is a paradigm takes advantage of fast response times working relatively close plant, and storage, processing availability features cloud. can be used improve controllability automation processes by introducing higher-level control loop: Fog-in-the-loop (FIL). FIL allows capturing from it extract information feedback actions based on...

In developed countries, public health systems are under pressure due to the increasing percentage of population over 65. this context, homecare based on ambient intelligence technology seems be a suitable solution allow elderly people continue enjoy comforts home and help optimize medical resources. Thus, current technological developments make it possible build complex applications that demand, among others, flexibility mechanisms for being able evolve as context does (adaptability), well...

The continuous changes of the market and customer demands have forced modern automation systems to provide stricter Quality service (QoS) requirements. This work is centered in production system flexibility, understood as ability shift from one controller configuration a different one, most quick cost-effective way, without disrupting its normal operation. In manufacturing field, this allows deal with non-functional requirements such assuring control availability or workload balancing, even...

The continuous changes on the market and customer demands have forced modern automation systems to provide more strict Quality of Service (QoS) requirements such as load balance or full availability control system, among other characteristics. In order cope with these demanding requirements, started incorporate novel design approaches which include reconfiguration mechanisms. Following this trend, paper presents use MDE techniques technologies, help in definition system reconfigurable...

Cloud Computing is revolutionizing smart manufacturing by offering on-demand and scalable computer systems that facilitate plant data analysis operational efficiency optimization. DevOps a methodology, widely used for developing systems, streamlines software development improving its integration, delivery, deployment. Although cloud application designers within team are assumed to have knowledge, this does not fall the skills of experts design analytics applications data. The deployment...

Adopting the Fog computing paradigm in traditional Cloud infrastructures reduces latency and optimizes network consumption between data providers consumers because system processes closer to its source. However, interoperability issues remain as heterogeneous distributed sources with different information models must be accessed for performing Cloud-level processing analysis. This paper describes an integration architecture based on OPC UA Aggregation Server paradigm, which introduces...

Distributed computing paradigms have evolved towards low latency and highly virtualized environments. Fog Computing, as its latest iteration, enables the usage of Cloud-like services closer to generators consumers data. The processing in this layer is performed by Applications, which are decomposed into smaller components following microservice paradigm encapsulated containers. Current state-of-the-art container orchestrators can manage hundreds simultaneous However, Kubernetes, being de...

Product oriented manufacturing is aligned with one of the Industry 4.0 trends consisting integrating all production systems. This implies shifting from a traditional view processes focused on line in order to reduce costs, more flexible and customized product manufacturing. On other hand, Multi Agent Systems (MAS) have been proved be suitable way fulfill these requirements. However, key aspect use novel technologies offer methodologies tools for supporting implementation such In this sense,...

Current automation systems demand flexibility enough to meet the challenging requirements of applications in terms complexity, extensibility or dynamism. From a global perspective whole system must quality service (QoS) which can be, for instance, energy efficiency, load balance full availability. This paper presents reconfiguration-based architecture triggered by higher level supervision that makes use component based middleware. The first step supervisory is presented aiming at achieving...

Global competition has resulted in changes on product demand which have to be managed by current manufacturing systems. In this context, modularity seems a suitable solution provide systems with the flexibility required adapt fluctuations when they occur, maintaining thus competitiveness and productivity. concrete, machine allows modifying structure but it should accomplished easily rapidly. The work proposes model-driven methodology that modular definition automatic generation of...

Abstract The Industrie 4.0 initiative emphasizes the consistent digitalization and linking of all productive units, including definition industrial control systems. This work proposes a model-based approach to develop Industrial Process Measurement Control Systems. It uses modern software technologies but complexity is wrapped using notation, syntax semantics field. UML modeling tool independent, due domain profiles. also PLC programming as architecture generated following PLCopen XML standard.

Modern medical systems are intensive in the use of distribution technology services. Communication among professionals and patients is enabled to exchange patient information, for on-line monitoring health conditions. A miriad specialized middleware solutions that have appeared this domain, typically focus on providing more patient-data processing services over basic communication backbones (e.g., from pure socket sophisticated interaction models). Paradigms such as service oriented...

Abstract The oil and gas industry envisions a smarter way of running their business where they can visualize entire operation, call retrieve production data effortlessly seamlessly, collaborating across the enterprise to decrease costs while increasing recovery. so-called Intelligent Oil Field (IOF) promotes reference architectures development approaches that improve flexibility efficiency upstream downstream process. In this sense, OPC UA provides local remote access plant information,...

Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) will improve the flexibility future production systems in newest smart factories. In advanced manufacturing industries, a large number machines, goods, control systems, information be interconnected. For this reason, it is necessary to implement load balancing technologies that responsiveness increase availability applications, particularly when low-cost devices are used. This paper presents novel architecture...

Health systems are evolving to cope with the increasing costs of providing high-level medical care elderly people maintaining their quality life. Smart homes, where ambient and biomedical sensors can coexist, have become a suitable approach address main goals home scenarios: preventive care, recognizing deteriorating health allowing personalized care. To achieve these goals, applications exhibit adaptability availability among other characteristics. Adaptability allows tracking patient's...

Service Oriented architectures are becoming very popular to meet the requirements of complex current applications demanding distribution and heterogeneity in open environments. In this sense, iLAND-ARTEMIS project is aimed at development a service-based middleware framework capable supporting deterministic dynamic functional composition reconfiguration networked embedded service oriented applications. The approach proposed paper uses Model Driven Engineering (MDE) order guide iLAND from...

Many multimedia applications exhibit QoS flexibility, as they support certain quality degradation. In the end, increasing or decreasing level results in resources demanded by applications, which may be useful for overcoming system overload. this context, present paper, based on previous work of authors, proposes a model-based and multi-agent approach management flexibility founded suitable resources. More precisely, it describes modeling to capture demands, mapping them resource demands. At...

eHealth systems have adopted recent advances on sensing technologies together with in information and communication (ICT) order to provide people-centered services that improve the quality of life an increasingly elderly population. As these are founded acquisition processing sensitive data (e.g., personal details, diagnosis, treatments medical history), any security threat would damage public's confidence them. This paper proposes a solution for design runtime management indoor applications...