A model-based approach for design and verification of Industrial Internet of Things

• Published in: Future generation computer systems Vol. 95; pp. 354 - 363
• Main Authors: N., Muthukumar, Srinivasan, Seshadhri, Ramkumar, K., Pal, Deepak, Vain, Juri, Ramaswamy, Srini
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.06.2019
• Subjects: Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT); IoT architecture; Model-Based Engineering (MBE); Process industries; Verification; Process industries; Verification; IoT architecture; Model-Based Engineering (MBE); Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
• ISSN: 0167-739X; 1872-7115
• DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2018.12.012

This investigation presents an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) architecture and a Model-Based Engineering (MBE) approach for design, verification, and auto-code generation of control applications in process industries. The IIoT architecture describes the hardware components, communication modules, and software. It emerges as a major enabler for providing open connectivity to process industry which provides greater data-aggregation, visibility, availability, flexible control, and cloud-connectivity. The MBE approach is based on multiple views of the systems with each domain model describing a particular view. The multi-view modelling approach is used to perform design and verification of the IIoT enabled control in process industries. We show that such an integration of MBE, cloud-computing, and IIoT provides certain desirable features such as plug-and-play control and on-the fly verification which are lacking in the process industry. The proposed MBE approach and IIoT architecture are illustrated on the quadruple tank process, a benchmark problem in control. Our deployment results verify the benefits envisaged by IIoT, cloud, and MBE integration. •An IIoT Architecture for process industry is proposed.•Model-Based approach for design and verification of IIoT is proposed.•Multiple-view modelling approach is used in model-based design and verification.•Work-flow for model-based design is presented.•Demonstrates the MBE approach in processing industry.