Design of an IoPT approach to create a cocktail robot station with robotic arm: components, interfaces and control

Abstract Successful and profitable companies in the 21st century have to integrate and adapt modern technologies to reach productivity and sustainability goals. While large enterprises have the resources (human, knowledge, and technology) to incorporate automation hardware and the required computational means to support automation, for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) finding the necessary resources is much more difficult. Even though benefits from such modifications are obvious (i.e., gain new clients, improve current process performance or break into new market), SMEs often lack the human resources and knowledge to implement automation. With the development of the Internet of Things (IoT), devices, sensors and platforms are becoming more affordable and available for companies and businesses, that are not connected with IT technologies, industrial sector, etc. In order to simplify automation for SMEs, simple and standardized integration procedures and best practice examples are important. In this paper we propose the concept and design of a smart bar system that is based on the Internet of Processes and Things (IoPT) concept which is able to prepare and serve drinks to clients based on smart features.