Universal parser for wireless sensor networks in industrial cyber physical production systems

Abstract

This work was developed in the context of European funded Project SelSus. Industrial clouds are heavily sensor based and Cloud Manufacturing Service frameworks are mostly grounded in the adoption of Internet of Things and Wireless Sensor Networks technologies. The SelSus framework combines both an Industrial Sensor Cloud and a Cyber Physical Production System. The Industrial Sensor Cloud supports the Cyber Physical Production System, by providing computational power, as well as internal coordination and control, and external access to realize intelligent monitoring and control. The SelSus framework combines embedded systems, networks, sensors and actuators and control algorithms in a seamless manner. Our goal is to have a Flexible Sensor Integration solution that allows rapid graphical development of interpreters of raw data packets in the Cloud and its deployment for embedded execution at the Wireless Sensor Network gateway level for automatic data acquisition. This paper describes such a technology and demonstrates its feasibility, where a match between a graphically developed interpreter and the received messages from the Wireless Sensor Network in US-ASCII is made, and the integration of such sensors is made into the system.