TY - JOUR
T1 - Integrated system for control and monitoring industrial wireless networks for labor risk prevention
AU - Gisbert, J. R.
AU - Palau, C.
AU - Uriarte, M.
AU - Prieto, G.
AU - Palazón, J. A.
AU - Esteve, M.
AU - López, O.
AU - Correas, J.
AU - Lucas-Estañ, M. C.
AU - Giménez, P.
AU - Moyano, A.
AU - Collantes, L.
AU - Gozálvez, J.
AU - Molina, B.
AU - Lázaro, O.
AU - González, A.
PY - 2014/3
Y1 - 2014/3
N2 - The FASyS (Absolutely Safe and Healthy Factory) project, aligned with the European Factories of the Future (FoF) concept, has been set-up to develop a new factory model aimed at minimizing the risks to the worker's health and safety, and guarantee their welfare and comfort in machining, handling and assembly factories. To this aim, ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) and wireless communication technologies in particular may represent very valuable tools to implement distributed and mobile sensing applications capable to continuously sense the working environment and the workers' health and safety conditions. The effective deployment of such applications in critical environments, like the industrial one, require the availability of a platform capable to monitor the operation and performance of the heterogeneous wireless networks that will connect the mobile sensors to remote control centers. This paper presents the platform implemented for this purpose in the context of the FASyS project. In addition to monitoring the status of heterogeneous wireless networks, the implemented platform provides the capability to reconfigure remotely the communication settings of wireless nodes based on possible malfunctioning or QoS degradation notifications. These functionalities will help guaranteeing the reliable and robust wireless communications required in industrial environments to implement innovative labor risk prevention applications exploiting ICT technologies.
AB - The FASyS (Absolutely Safe and Healthy Factory) project, aligned with the European Factories of the Future (FoF) concept, has been set-up to develop a new factory model aimed at minimizing the risks to the worker's health and safety, and guarantee their welfare and comfort in machining, handling and assembly factories. To this aim, ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) and wireless communication technologies in particular may represent very valuable tools to implement distributed and mobile sensing applications capable to continuously sense the working environment and the workers' health and safety conditions. The effective deployment of such applications in critical environments, like the industrial one, require the availability of a platform capable to monitor the operation and performance of the heterogeneous wireless networks that will connect the mobile sensors to remote control centers. This paper presents the platform implemented for this purpose in the context of the FASyS project. In addition to monitoring the status of heterogeneous wireless networks, the implemented platform provides the capability to reconfigure remotely the communication settings of wireless nodes based on possible malfunctioning or QoS degradation notifications. These functionalities will help guaranteeing the reliable and robust wireless communications required in industrial environments to implement innovative labor risk prevention applications exploiting ICT technologies.
KW - Distributed application
KW - Factory of the future
KW - Global monitoring application
KW - Health and safety
KW - Semantic sensor networks
KW - Wireless sensor networks
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84893755419&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jnca.2013.07.014
DO - 10.1016/j.jnca.2013.07.014
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84893755419
SN - 1084-8045
VL - 39
SP - 233
EP - 252
JO - Journal of Network and Computer Applications
JF - Journal of Network and Computer Applications
IS - 1
ER -