IIoT: End-To-End Solution

Client's Overview:

A global leader in the engineering and manufacturing of industrial powertrain solutions, power
transmission solutions, air moving products, electric motors, electronic controls and specialty
electronics.

Challenges:

Client’s multiple products deployed for diverse industrial and commercial applications required remote monitoring solutions for health monitoring, control and data-driven analytics to achieve numerous business goals.

Solution and Approach:

A customizable and modular IIoT platform was conceptualized jointly with the client’s stakeholders and business teams to deliver an end-to-end solution covering –

Identification, selection, customized design & development and integration of multiple sensors – Torque sensors, Load sensors, Temperature sensors, Vibration sensors, Air temperature sensors, Liquid line temperature sensors, Motor sensors (Sensing speed, Voltage, Current, Power, Motor temperature), Door sensor, Ice sensor etc.
Design and development of smart devices
Design and development of smart gateways for acquiring data from smart devices and communicating with cloud infrastructure.
Cloud infrastructure configuration and management
Mobile app development
User/ roles-based visualizations and analytics platform development
Building algorithms for providing data-driven insights

Results

The end-to-end IIoT platform was customized and implemented for diverse industrial applications
including –

Monitoring and control of motors deployed in the smart refrigeration cabinets used in super stores
Monitoring and control of the gearbox used for wastewater treatment plants
Monitoring of bearings used at various industrial sites.
Monitoring of temperature and vibration for conveyors used at various industrial sites.

Outcome:

The end-to-end IIoT platform has been deployed on the field for diverse industrial applications, and based on data generated for these applications, appropriate data-driven analytics and insights have been built, providing –

Predictive insights – for service and fault preemption
Analytical insights – for operation and design feedback
Control insights – identifying means and needs for control
Business insights – aligning with the business goals, such as energy & cost savings

Technology Areas

BLDC Motor Control
Active PFC
Power Electronics

Hardware

Altium
Nordic Chips

Firmware

BLE
Embedded C
OTA
Boot loader
I2C
SPI

Software

NET Framework 4.6, Dot NET Core 3.1
HTML, CSS, Angular
C sharp 6.0, JavaScript-JQuery
SQL server
Azure (Functions, Blob)

Mobile

Android, iOS and Xamarin (Hybrid)
MVVM and MVC
Java, Kotlin, Objective C, Swift 5.0

SQLITE, Core data, Room Database

Android Studio, Xcode , Visual studio
BLE, NFC
QR Code scanner, Google map, Graph and charts library, Payment Gateway
Token Based Authentication, SSL Pinning, Proguard