An IoT infrastructure solution for factories

With the emergence of IoT and low power wireless technologies, many of the factory floor devices now have wireless interfaces. Bluetooth wireless technology is increasingly being used in these devices for communicating device data to a floor operator. The operator brings a Bluetooth enabled mobile device such as a tablet from where the respective devices can be monitored or controlled. As Bluetooth has only a limited coverage, an operator has to bring the mobile device within a close proximity of the device. With the increase in the number of Bluetooth enabled factory devices, the task of device synchronization can become cumbersome and time consuming. In this paper we demonstrate an IoT infrastructure solution for factory environment that leverages the presence of Bluetooth enabled factory floor devices along with additional Bluetooth and Wi-Fi infrastructure nodes in order to provide context based data to the factory floor personnel. The proposed IoT platform gathers data over the entire factory floor in an automated fashion resulting in additional services that will aid in improving efficiency on the factory floor.