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 divers 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 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 to 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 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
  • BLDC Motor Control
  • Active PFC 
  • Power Electronics 
  • Altium
  • Nordic Chips
  • BLE
  • Embedded C
  • OTA
  • Boot loader
  • I2C
  • SPI
  • NET Framework 4.6, Dot NET Core 3.1
  • HTML, CSS, Angular
  • C sharp 6.0, JavaScript-JQuery
  • SQL server
  • Azure (Functions, Blob)
    • 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