IoT based situational awareness framework for real-time project management

Abstract

Factories of the Future roadmap identifies that the major challenges manufacturing companies face today are the growing complexity of their processes, therefore affecting the overall process of decision making. Thus, it is a very important research area to integrate the evolving technologies in the domain of Internet of Things (IoT) into the applications used for project management. At the same time, to capture events on the shop-floor and determine the meaning of information about those perceived events would be an important aspect for making decisions in heterogeneous, highly dynamic environments. This research paper aims to provide a framework for efficient project management by reducing the time for decision-making based on IoT technologies. The goal is pursued by dynamically establishing situational awareness on the top of existing manufacturing processes. The proposed framework is validated in real industrial scenario by implementing a platform for efficient project management within the domain of construction industry.

Keywords:

• factories of future
• Internet of things
• situational awareness

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes

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Additional information

Funding

The research leading to these results has received funding from the EC 7th Framework Programme [grant agreement n° FITMAN 604674] (http://www.fitman-fi.eu) and project SHbuildings SOE3/P1/E508 – programa de Cooperação Territorial Europeia INTERREG IV B SUDOE.