The development of ethically informed standards for intelligent monitoring systems of electric machines

Abstract

This paper presents a development process of ethically-informed standards for intelligent monitoring systems (IMS). It considers the gap of socio-ethical standards for IMS over global industry, in both general terms and field-specific cases. Ethical issues of IMS are defined to include safety, data security, transparency, privacy, justice, equality, sustainability, and beneficence. We argue that they can be investigated and assessed by answering a set of questions for each ethical issue. This ethical evaluation questionnaire can be considered as an effective assessment tool for standard constructions. Additionally, field-specific industrial cases for the development of IMS ethical standards were demonstrated, including IMS for wind power systems, more electric aircrafts, and agricultural industry. Eventually, the summary of necessary items for building the ethical standards of IMS are presented.