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On the one hand, enterprises manufacturing any kinds of goods require agile production technology to be able to fully accommo- date their customers' demand for flexibility. On the other hand, Smart Objects, such as networked intelligent machines or tagged raw materials, exhibit ever increasing capabilities, up to the point where they oer their smar...
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... instance the temper- ature is gathered via a subscription to the temperature service (asynchronous) whereas the transport process is stopped by invoking an operation on the process middleware. Figure 2 depicts the architecture by representing the components connected to a common (DPWS) ESB (Enterprise Service Bus). ...
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... Integrating IoT devices and sensors with existing infrastructure and systems can be a complex process. There may be compatibility issues that need to be addressed, and companies may need to invest in additional hardware and software to ensure that everything works seamlessly together (De Souza et al.,2008;Page et al.,2015;Trivedi et al., 2021). The integration process should be carefully planned and executed to minimize disruptions to ongoing operations. ...
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the use of IoT technologies in the garment manufacturing industry, with a focus on enhancing efficiency, quality, and sustainability. The chapter covers various IoT technologies, including RFID and NFC, wearables, sensors, robotics, and artificial intelligence, and their applications in tracking and tracing, monitoring workers' health and safety, predicting maintenance, optimizing inventory management, and streamlining supply chain management. The chapter also discusses challenges and considerations for IoT implementation, case studies, and examples of IoT implementation by major fashion brands, and future directions and opportunities for IoT in garment manufacturing. The findings suggest that IoT technologies have great potential to revolutionize the garment manufacturing industry by improving efficiency, quality, and sustainability, while also enabling customization and personalization in fashion. The chapter concludes with a summary of key findings and takeaways, as well as future research directions for this field.
... Each device offers its functionality as a service, acting like as autonomous intelligent, and reusable unit. De Souza, Spiess, Guinard, Koehler, Karnouskos, and Savio (2008) illustrate the benefits of service-oriented integration for a manufacturing shop that combine services from the enterprise, network, and stand-alone devices. Marin-Perianu, Meratina, Havinga, de Souzs, Muller, Spiess, Haller, Riedel, Decker, and Stromberg (2007) demonstrate real-world services enable heterogeneous devices despite the complexity of interface uniformity across traditional enterprise applications. ...
... For Users, the friendliness of composition platforms from a GUI perspective represents an important concern, this is the case for smart buildings applications such as [117], and this has been mentioned in other domains, including smart transportation [197] [199]. Customization and ease of use are also user concerns in the smart manufacturing domain [203]: customers use recommendation algorithms to customize products during pre-production in terms of cost, reliability, and delivery time, among other criteria, [181] [125]. Users also expect energy-efficient composite systems in smart cities [165][178] [179][180], less human interaction and more automation in composition platforms processes [23], ease of use of composition platforms [26][27], cost reduction or zero-cost implementation [121], trustworthiness concerns that include the human/user factor in smart manufacturing [41], accessible safety assessment especially for critical metrics such as security in smart cities [216], safety in smart transportation applications, data privacy in smart health applications [119], environment friendliness and security [216] for smart buildings and cities. ...
As billions of IoT devices join the Internet, researchers and innovators increasingly explore IoT capabilities achieved via service composition or reuse of existing capabilities via service decomposition. Many systematic literature reviews (SLRs) were produced on this subject; however, two issues remain to be addressed: i) a reference taxonomy of the different aspects of IoT capabilities composition and decomposition is needed, and ii) many formal questions (e.g., standards role, formal representations applications, state-space explosion countermeasures, etc.), technical questions (e.g., composition process types and automation levels synergies, service decomposition categories, the role of AI/ML, etc.), and QoS questions (e.g., privacy, interoperability, and scalability challenges and solutions, etc.) remain unanswered. We introduce this work by discussing notions of IoT capabilities composition and decomposition in a layered IoT architecture while highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of existing SLRs. We identify unanswered questions through gaps in related work and motivate these questions using the PICOC methodology. We explain the search methodology and organize the topic questions using the proposed reference taxonomy. The identified research questions are answered, and trends and gaps that need additional attention from the research community are highlighted. This effort benefits city planners and end-users of IoT systems as it contributes to a better understanding of the role of composition and decomposition of IoT capabilities in building value-added services or reusing existing ones for resource optimization. For researchers, this effort contributes a reference taxonomy for the topic and sheds light on important questions while highlighting corresponding trends and gaps requiring further attention.
... The integration of devices into the business through SOA has been considered a promising approach to connect physical objects and to make them available to IT-systems. This can be achieved by running instances of web services on these devices, enabling them to interact and create an IoS that enables a service-oriented manufacturing (de Souza et al., 2008). ...
... The SOA and its related standards for web services have been proposed for automation control (Bohn et al., 2006), working as the middleware for the integration between the shop floor and back-end applications, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) (de Souza et al., 2008). Although these approaches were a first step towards more adaptive manufacturing systems, they applied the traditional top-down focus of business process integration which, for instance, is too static for highly customized products with small lot sizes (Legat et al., 2010). ...
... Top-down focus of business process integration which is too static for highly customized products with small lot sizes SOCRADES Integration Architecture (de Souza et al., 2008) Architecture to facilitate the querying and discovery of real-world services from enterprise applications Focus on integration between the shop floor and Enterprise Resource Planning with no validation Abstract Manufacturing Service Model (Legat et al., 2010) Abstract model combining service-orientation to achieve bottom-up supply chain integration by intelligent products ...
... The SLE has a significant influence on ICT [39]. Such integrations have grown in popularity among the general public and have provided options in e-Learning systems. ...
Globally, cities are emerging into Smart Cities (SC) as a result of sustainable cities and the adaption of recent Internet of Things (IoT) technology. It is becoming essential to involve students in sustainability as engineering and technology are crucial elements in fixing the past adverse effects on our globe. Engineering e-learners are being educated on the sustainable development of SC in many Smart e-learning Tools (SeT) and infrastructure faculties around the world, especially in developing Asian countries such as India. This research paper presents an advanced solution for interactive Smart Learning Environment (SLE) systems based on new IoT technologies in the Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) found in Smart Learning Environments (SLE) for SC people. The proposed IoT-Ve-LS system provides an optimized solution for online classes to attend classes using VR/AR glasses to feel the interactions between Smart Digital Devices (SDD) as practically as in practice. The new Virtual e-Learning System (Ve-LS) is experimental, allows automatic Information and Communications Technology (ICT) development, and offers an extraordinary SLE for increased global recognition. This paper focuses on IoT-Ve-LS, a tool for SLE. The IoT-Ve-LS domain has been fast-growing through the emerging technological trends of the IoT. The IoT-Ve-LS method used in the design and implementation allows flexible usage and integration of the online courses by SLE. The impacts of empirical E-learning evaluation on implementing IoT techniques in online tutoring have been analysed to find out its research hypothesis. Our IoT-sensor-based Reservoir Computing allows the classification of short-term learning language sentences relatively quickly, highlighting the minimal training time and optimized solution of real-time cases for controlling temporal and sequential signals at the cloud computing level. The triangulation analysis in information gathering endorses the theoretical models that use computable and personalized approaches.
... The integration of devices into an enterprise ICT landscape through SOA is a promising approach to connect physical objects and make them available to ICT systems. An example of this approach is the SOCRADES project [9]. SOCRADES aims at providing middleware for the integration and coupling of devices with enterprise applications such as ERP systems. ...
... SOCRADES has integrated the code and concepts of SIRENA. SIRENA [9] is one of the consortium partners of the project. SIRENA aims at furthering the design and implementation of a sophisticated web services-based infrastructure for devices attached to or embedded in objects in the physical world. ...
IoT can contribute to the resolution of problems inherent in the control of our environment and to the automation of decisions based on data extracted from that environment. However, the opportunity to contribute to these activities is not offered to everyone. Indeed, according to the majority of decision makers in different fields, IoT solution development is limited to only IoT experts in these fields. According to our opinion this truth is not absolute. In order to demystify IoT and trivialize participation in the IoT solution development effort a language specific to IoT domain has been defined. This language is based on a meta-model of IoT and is made of a textual notation conforming to Backus Naur Form. It allows each participant in a development activity to express and discuss his or her idea of a solution to an IoT problem. An approach build on this language proposes a demarche that starts from the IoT meta-model to arrive at a solution code. Each developer can derive the meta-model to obtain a solution model. Next, she (or he) uses our development environment to concretize this model. Our environment is build using Eclipse/Xtext. It offers technological tools to support our approach. The case study that provides a proof of concept of the approach falls within the domain of smart agriculture.
... SOCRADES middleware [27] contains a layer for devices and services monitoring responsible for devices/things management and service discovery, and another one for application services such as event storage. The middleware provides a security solution by using authentication to control access to the different devices. ...
... There exist some middleware platforms using a hybrid approach, combining two or more design approaches stated above. For example, both SOCRADES [27] and Servilla [26] service-oriented middleware solutions use also the virtual machine (VM)-based approach. The VM in Servilla, for example, serves to execute application tasks, while the service provisioning framework (SPF) (the service-oriented part) is used to discover and execute services on individual sensor nodes in a WSN. ...
The Internet of Things (IoT), along with its wider variants including numerous technologies, things, and people: the Internet of Everything (IoE) and the Internet of Nano Things (IoNT), are considered as part of the Internet of the future and ubiquitous computing allowing the communication among billions of smart devices and objects, and have recently drawn a very significant research attention. In these approaches, there are varieties of heterogeneous devices empowered by new capabilities and interacting with each other to achieve specific applications in different domains. A middleware layer is therefore required to abstract the physical layer details of the smart IoT devices and ease the complex and challenging task of developing multiple backend applications. In this chapter, an overview of IoT technologies, architecture, and main applications is given first and then followed by a comprehensive survey on the most recently used and proposed middleware solutions designed for IoT networks. In addition, open issues in IoT middleware design and future works in the field of middleware development are highlighted.
... Nonetheless, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) are rapidly becoming the preferred way for interacting with more powerful smart objects. Additionally, this is predicted to be the dominant architectural approach for future devices of this type [13]. The SOA-enabled integration of smart objects into business processes enables information systems to communicate with real objects, hence establishing the Internet of Services (IoS). ...
... This architectural transformation creates a disproportionate number of opportunities and problems for ensuring successful collaboration between services and centralized information systems. Middleware techniques have shown to be a solid option for integrating back-end applications and services given by devices, service-mediators, and gateways [13]. SIRENA (Service Infrastructure for Real-time Embedded Networked Applications) [10] was created to exploit SOA architectures to connect embedded devices across domains smoothly. ...
... However, these pioneering initiatives neglected to address concerns such as device oversight, device life cycle management, and device status maintenance. Additionally, SIRENA served as the basis for the SODA [12] and SOCRADES [13] initiatives. SODA's objective was to build a comprehensive, scalable, easy-to-deploy service-oriented environment on top of the SIRENA foundations. ...
The Internet of Things is intended to bridge the divide between physical business processes and information technologies. Supply chain management is a significant application area that can benefit from the Internet of Things. When connected to physical objects, IoT technologies such as sensor networks transform supply chain objects into smart objects. These products are capable of capturing context data and providing representations of things to information systems. This enables process-aware information systems to monitor supply chain processes. Additionally, intelligent things can conduct portions of business processes. They may exchange data and make judgments based on business logic in dispersed contexts. However, this logic acts solely in accordance with predetermined behavior. Unexpected exceptions resulting from real-world occurrences necessitate dynamic process adaptation in process definitions and associated instances. We cover the major IoT technologies connected with automated assistance of logistics business processes in this study. Additionally, we highlight the primary constraints of the Business Process Execution Language in terms of supporting design and runtime updates to these processes via smart items, and we focus on one of these obstacles: Integration of IoT services into corporate processes via process modelling and orchestration
... SoA stands out as a promising candidate to support IT-OT integration in order to make the systems from these two layers more interoperable. There are several European projects such as SOCRADES [4], [5], SIRENA [6], SODA [7] that introduce a SoA middleware to exposes shop floor devices as services to the application at higher layer such as MES and ERP systems [8]. However, these frameworks are designed to support devices that can host web services, which is not the case for most legacy industrial systems. ...
... SoA is also a potential architecture for the heterogeneity challenge of the physical layer. The use of SoA in automated manufacturing is being investigated in several European projects such as SOCRADES [4], [5], SIRENA [6], SODA [7]. The primary objective of the SOCRADES project is to develop an architecture for the future factory including middleware that supports the devices from the shop floors. ...
... A middleware can not only be proprietary but also implement standard interfaces, such as Web Service Information Service Bus Model (WS-ISBM [63]) that specifies an SOAP-interfaced ESB. Another Web-service-based middleware was proposed by the Socrades project [64]. On the other hand, even FIWARE can be considered a middleware, as it provides a centralised context broker [46]. ...
Conventional industrial communication systems suffer from rigidness, inflexibility and lack of scalability. The environment is heterogeneous as the systems exchange data with a variety communication protocols, some of which are proprietary. This makes it laborious and expensive to reconfigure or upgrade the systems. As the solution, this article proposes a message-bus-based communication architecture to enable information exchange between systems regardless of their geographical location and position within the functional hierarchy of the plant. The architecture not only enables communication to cross the conventional physical borders but also provides scalability to growing data volumes and network sizes. As proofs of concept, the article presents a prototype in three environments: a copper smelter, a steel plant and a distillation column. The results suggest that the message-bus-based approach has potential to renew industrial communications, a core part of the fourth industrial revolution.
