Courtesy of Project Symbioptima
Published: 26 February 2017
Written by Luigi Grillo, Silvia Vergani and Gaetano Calabrò (Paradox Engineering SA)
Manufacturing companies around the world are leveraging data generated from fully-instrumented plants to improve productivity and adjust processes, but also to reduce consumption of key resources such as energy, water and raw materials. The Internet of Things paradigm enables a smarter way to monitor production assets, and wireless networks are critical for implementing advanced sensor architectures to closely monitor key parameters such as temperature, pressure, emissions and vibrations, thus achieving greater control over plants performance and sustainability indicators. (read more ...)