Industrial Internet

Cloud based automation

control systems

Stephen Hayes

Beckhoff Automation Ltd

www.beckhoff.co.uk

Introduction to Industrial Internet

2Industry Tap 2016 /GE

Industrial Controls

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PC based Industrial Control

Industrial Internet

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Industrial controls and IoT

Industrial Internet

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Automation Pyramid

Industrial Internet

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Process Integration

Industrial Internet

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Industrial IoT Automation

Industrial Internet

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Cloud Connectivity

Industrial Internet

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Industrial IoT applications

Industrial Internet

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IoT Coupler

Industrial Internet

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IoT Coupler

IoT measurement:

Temperature

Pressure

Energy

Vibration

…

IoT

EK9160 IoT bus coupler

2 GByte Micro SD card

for data storage

Real time clock

Sync via SNTP

Laing O‘Rourke Crossrail

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Liverpool Street Crossrail Station

• Over 3000 strain gauge values

• Multiple locations

• Mobile data

• Azure hosted software

• Monitoring and reporting

Nottingham University Eco House Case Study

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• Hundreds of EnOcean wireless sensors

• Single Embedded controller with OPC UA connected to IoT Hub

• 3G mobile data

• Retro fit to existing building

• Research leading to large scale deployment

Grundfos Case Study

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Challenges and conclusion

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• Exposure to security risks

• Provide adequate end to end security in place against cyber attacks and data leaks

• Integrity of the network for transmission of massive data needs to be good enough

• Quality and cost of collecting machine data

• Consolidation of disparate data and ability to use the resulting data for maximum impact

• Overcoming organisational barriers that prevent collection and correlation of data

• Talent acquisition in to understand and realise the potential from collected data

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