Data aggregation architecture “Smart-Hub” for heterogeneous systems in industrial environment

Abstract

Distributed systems spread widely in industrial environments. One of the key challenges is the exchange and the aggregation of data between these sys-tems. Although standards play an important role to solve data interoperability is-sues between systems, these standards do not completely address existing indus-trial problems. In fact, it is not granted to have an industrial environment that complies with a unique standard; therefore, ad-hoc solutions are used to solve this issue. In this article, the authors propose a generic architecture to address the in-teroperability between systems. This architecture is developed based on model-based techniques and principles. Besides, it reduces the need for human interven-tion and time by developing once and reusing the building blocks of the architec-ture. Finally, the architecture is described in its application to a case study.