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An ISO 9001:2008 company

Internet of Things (IoT)

Overview

by Sujata TilakCTO, Ascent Intellimation Pvt. Ltd

How far??

Fridge checking

item inventory

Placing order with

super market

Delivery at your

doorstep

Driverless cars driving with help of hundreds of sensors, GPS and a digital

map

How far??

A machine informing

maintenance system about

need of some part replacement

Maintenance system placing an

order with appropriate vendor

system

Part delivered

Production schedule adjusted

Replacement carried out by a robot

Internet of Things

A network of uniquely addressable Things capable of communicating with one another using Internet infrastructure

IoT History

1990s• Devices riding on Internet were designed soon after the Internet itself appeared

2005

• The term IoT was first used in a report by UN's International Telecommunications Union - … create an entirely new dynamic network of networks – an Internet of Things

2008-09

• The Internet of Things was born• More things / objects were connected to the Internet than people (computers)

2011

• IPv6 launched. It allows 2128 or 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 unique IP addresses

• Two kinds of IoT emerged - Industrial IoT and Consumer IoT• 15 billion connected devices in 2014. Expected to be 40 billion by 2020

Ref - http://postscapes.com/internet-of-things-history

I T

Automation

IIoT impact area

Industrial Internet of Things

IIoT will mainly impact Level 3 and Level 4 automation systems.Most components below level 3 will continue to operate within their network, at least for some more years.

Conceptual View

IIoT Impacted Application Areas

• Enterprise Asset Management• Manufacturing Intelligence / Smart

Factories• After Market Service (AMS) for machines,

cars, consumer goods…..• Reliability Centric / Predictive / Condition

based Maintenance Management• ….

System Attributes

• Enterprise and beyond– Multiple organization / locations– Accessible to people performing varied roles

• Uniquely addressable devices• Interactions between devices (things) as well as

between devices and users• Integration with analytics systems• Contextual data – location / time / user• Software centric• Cloud servers

Data Flow

Acquire

Transfer

Store

Analyze

Share

Act

Challenges

• Reliable communication• Security• Scalability• Interoperability• Discovery• Resources – power, bandwidth

An IIoT Application

After Market Service Platform• Setup by an OEM for After Market Service of their machines

• Platform used by all stakeholders – OEM, all customers, some vendors

• Main features– Operations alarms– Rule based machine condition

alerts– Real time monitoring– Analytical dashboards and

reports– Alerts by SMS and email

• Integration with customer production system, customer CMMS, OEM CMMS

Thank You!

Sujata Tilak, CTOsujata.tilak@aiplindia.com

www.ascentautomation.com www.plantconnect.net