Brightics-IoT: Towards Effective Industrial IoT Platforms for Connected Smart Factories

Abstract

Industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT) supports machines, computers and users to enable intelligent operations using advanced device management and data analytics. In recent years, thanks to standardized IoT platforms and advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, there have been great advances in IIoT, and now it promises revolutions on various manufacturing domains such as transport, health, factory and energy. In this paper, based on our experience operating IIoT in various factory applications, we present the technical challenges of manufacturing facilities needed to be dealt with to collect huge amount of data in real-time and counteraction points of an IoT platform regarding these technical challenges and what kinds of features need to be implemented for intelligent services in the smart manufacturing. Finally, we introduce a story of applying industrial IoT platform in production to show how iterative development approaches can achieve business requirements based on elastically scaled-out architecture.