An IoT approach for a smart maintenance

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) can be defined as an intelligent pervasive environment, based on a continuing proliferation of intelligent networks, wireless sensors and a massive data centers; the basic idea of IoT is that, virtually every small or large physical thing in this world can be a computer connected to the Internet. There are many fields of research on IoT technology with a wide number of application domains. In this paper we had interested to Industry 4.0 and Prognostics Health Manager (PHM) domain; Industry 4.0 is a name for the current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies. It includes cyber-physical systems, Internet of things, Cloud Computing and Cognitive Computing. In other side Prognostics Health Manager offers significant benefits for industrial maintenance which is one of the main factors of production process. We have proposed a new smart multitenant solution based on IoT and cloud computing technologies which makes an industrial environment connected, and enhanced with a system offering a Web Application (Dashboard) to monitor, supervise and control an important number of machines geographically separated; the importance of such system become clearly necessary when dealing with a large industrial environment.