Arquitetura reutilizável de hardware e software para supervisão e controle remotos de Sistemas de Automação Industrial

Abstract

As market demands increased worldwide in response to economic growth, industrial automation systems became larger and more complex in order to meet these demands. This also increased the number of failures and maintenance necessity. However, solutions in automation often involve proprietary setups from manufacturers of industrial devices, preventing automation systems to be reused in different industrial applications without large efforts of development. Thus, systems that can be applied to a large number of industrial applications are desired by many companies, since they can reduce costs with deployment, maintenance and training, and even more if these systems also enable remote collection of information from their operation status. This work proposes a reusable hardware and software architecture to monitor and control industrial automation systems, which is not limited to a single industrial application; instead, it can be connected to any other one, as long as a communication port is available to access the process automation protocol. This is achieved by utilizing standardized technologies in the interfaces between components of the architecture, as well as by defining the structures of the software running on the hardware devices. A prototype was developed based on the proposed architecture and its application cases are later shown in a voice-activated coffee dispenser with a CANOpen protocol and in a wireless network of sensors and actuators with ZigBee-enabled devices. Finally, the deployment procedures of the prototype are described in a generalized application case.