Conference: IEEE 16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS Porto, Portugal – July 18-20, 2018 Title of the paper: Supporting a Cloud Platform with Streams of Factory Shop Floor Data in the Context of the Industry 4.0 Authors: Umer Iftikhar, Wael M. Mohammed, Borja Ramis Ferrer, Jose L. Martinez Lastra and Javier Hitado Simarro

1. Supporting a Cloud Platform with Streams of
Factory Shop Floor Data in the Context of the
Intustry 4.0
Date: July, 2018
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Conference: IEEE 16TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS
Porto, Portugal – July 18-20, 2018
Title of the paper: Supporting a Cloud Platform with
Streams of Factory Shop Floor Data in the Context of
the Intustry 4.0
Authors: Umer Iftikhar, Wael M. Mohammed, Borja
Ramis Ferrer, Jose L. Martinez Lastra and Javier
Hitado Simarro
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Supporting a Cloud Platform with Streams of Factory Shop
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2. Supporting a Cloud Platform with Streams of
Factory Shop Floor Data in the Context of
the Industry 4.0
Wael M. Mohammed, Borja Ramis Ferrer,
Umer Iftikhar, Jose L. Martinez Lastra
{wael.mohammed, borja.ramisferrer,
umer.iftikhar, jose.lastra}@tut.fi
Tampere University of Technology
PO Box 600, 33101 Tampere
Javier Hitado Simarro
javier.hitadosimarro@atos.net
ATOS Research & Innovation
Bilbao, Spain
IEEE 16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS
Porto, Portugal – July 18-20, 2018

3. Outline
• Introduction
• Objectives
• The Approach
• An Industrial scenario
• Implementation
• Conclusion and future work
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Floor Data in the Context of the Industry 4.0
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4. Introduction (1/2)
Cloud Collaborative
Manufacturing Networks
(C2NET) project is an EU
Horizon 2020 R&D project
within the framework of the
Factories of the Future (FoF)
public-private partnership.
The goal of the project is the
development of Cloud-enabled
tools for supporting SMEs
supply network optimization.
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Floor Data in the Context of the Industry 4.0
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5. Introduction (2/2)
• The goal of the project is the development of Cloud-
enabled tools for supporting SMEs supply network
optimization
• The project requires a Data Collection Framework that
is capable of collecting data from factory shopfloor
using IoT devices and from ERP systems.
• Such data is required to be collected via hubs to
increase the system flexibility.
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Floor Data in the Context of the Industry 4.0
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6. Objectives
• To build and validate the factory shop floor data collection via
IoT devices and FIWARE-based hub.
• To allow the user to build and implement the preferred
security measures.
• To support the multi-data collection processes.
• To be able to collect data from different devices and
communication protocols.
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Floor Data in the Context of the Industry 4.0
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7. The Approach: Architectural perspective
• Multi-Layer Architecture
– Connectors Layer connects the
hub with the C2NET platform.
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Floor Data in the Context of the Industry 4.0
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8. The Approach: Architectural perspective
• Multi-Layer Architecture
– Connectors Layer connects the
hub with the C2NET platform.
– Data Handling Functionalities apply
the needed filtering by using a
dedicated CEP engine.
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Floor Data in the Context of the Industry 4.0
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9. The Approach: Architectural perspective
• Multi-Layer Architecture
– The Connectors Layer connects
the hub with the C2NET platform.
– The Data Handling Functionalities
apply the needed filtering by using
a dedicated CEP engine.
– The Communication Layer
connects the hub with the industrial
devices in the factory shop floor.
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Floor Data in the Context of the Industry 4.0
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10. The Approach: Architectural perspective
• Multi-Layer Architecture
– The Connectors Layer connects
the hub with the C2NET platform.
– The Data Handling Functionalities
apply the needed filtering by using
a dedicated CEP engine.
– The Communication Layer
connects the hub with the industrial
devices in the factory shop floor.
– The Device Management handles
the communication with the
devices by sending the
configuration that is defined by
users in the platform.
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Floor Data in the Context of the Industry 4.0
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11. The Approach: Architectural perspective
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Floor Data in the Context of the Industry 4.0
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• Multi-Layer Architecture
– The Connectors Layer connects
the hub with the C2NET platform.
– The Data Handling Functionalities
apply the needed filtering by using
a dedicated CEP engine.
– The Communication Layer
connects the hub with the industrial
devices in the factory shop floor.
– The Device Management handles
the communication with the
devices by sending the
configuration that is defined by
users in the platform.
– The Devices Layer consists of the
IoT devices communicating with
the hub.

12. The Approach: Components and Interactions
• Component-based view
– The CEP Broker manages the
communication between data
providers and the CEP engine.
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Floor Data in the Context of the Industry 4.0
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13. The Approach: Components and Interactions
• Component-based view
– The CEP Broker manages the
communication between data
providers and the CEP engine.
– The CEP Engine (based on
Esper) for processing events.
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Floor Data in the Context of the Industry 4.0
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14. The Approach: Components and Interactions
• Component-based view
– The CEP Broker manages the
communication between data
providers and the CEP engine.
– The CEP Engine (based on
Esper) for processing events.
– IoT Agents are a virtual
representation of the actual
physical devices.
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Floor Data in the Context of the Industry 4.0
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15. The Approach: Components and Interactions
• Component-based view
– The CEP Broker manages the
communication between data
providers and the CEP engine.
– The CEP Engine (based on
Esper) for processing events.
– IoT Agents are a virtual
representation of the actual
physical devices.
– WebScocket, SocketIO and
RabbitMQ servers provide the
required communication
services.
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Floor Data in the Context of the Industry 4.0
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16. The Approach: Components and Interactions
• Component-based view
– The CEP Broker manages the
communication between data
providers and the CEP engine.
– The CEP Engine (based on
Esper) for processing events.
– IoT Agents are a virtual
representation of the actual
physical devices.
– WebScocket, SocketIO and
RabbitMQ servers provide the
required communication
services.
– The Orion Broker is a FIWARE
module for supporting NSGI via
RESTful API.
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Floor Data in the Context of the Industry 4.0
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17. C2NET
IoT Hub
IoT Gateway
Service Enabled
Devices
WebSockets
MQTT
REST
An Industrial scenario: The FASTory line
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Floor Data in the Context of the Industry 4.0
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• FASTory Assembly Line
– 12 Workstation (12 Conveyors and
11 robots)
– 23 Service Enabled devices
– RESTful and DPWS/WSDL
based communication
http://escop.rd.tut.fi:3000/fmw

18. Implementation (1/3)
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Floor Data in the Context of the Industry 4.0
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• Devices – IoT Hub
communication
– Configuration is created
by the user via C2NET
interface
– The gateway uses the
configuration to create
subscription to events in
the devices

19. Implementation (2/3)
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Floor Data in the Context of the Industry 4.0
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• C2NET – IoT Hub
communication
– IoT Hub applies NSGI
configuration that
contains CEP rules to
filter and format the
incoming data.

20. Implementation (3/3)
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Floor Data in the Context of the Industry 4.0
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• C2NET – IoT Hub
communication
– IoT Hub applies NSGI
configuration that
contains CEP rules to
filter and format the
incoming data.
– Example of the
configuration file à

21. Conclusion and future work
• The collection of IoT data is challenging for the developers as
they have to adapt to the large streams of data to be
processed.
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Floor Data in the Context of the Industry 4.0
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22. Conclusion and future work
• The collection of IoT data is challenging for the developers as
they have to adapt to the large streams of data to be
processed.
• The demonstrated approach increased privacy by allowing
the company to develop and build the IoT hub that connects
to the factory devices
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Floor Data in the Context of the Industry 4.0
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23. Conclusion and future work
• The collection of IoT data is challenging for the developers as
they have to adapt to the large streams of data to be
processed.
• The demonstrated approach increased privacy by allowing
the company to develop and build the IoT hub that connects
to the factory devices
• For the future work, the presented prototype will be converted
to FIWARE module, which can be reused further.
• Besides, proper tests will be conducted to demonstrate the
performance of the approach.
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Floor Data in the Context of the Industry 4.0
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24. Conclusion and future work
• The research leading to these results has received funding
from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
innovation program under grant agreement n° 636909,
correspondent to the project shortly entitled C2NET, Cloud
Collaborative Manufacturing Networks
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Floor Data in the Context of the Industry 4.0
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