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Ye Jin Li Jian
School of information and communication ,Guilin University School of information and communication ,Guilin University
of Electronic Technology of Electronic Technology
Guilin,China Guilin,China
yejin@guet.edu.cn hncd_lijian@163.com
Abstract—A remote manufacturing monitoring system based on The technology of the things of internet used in the field of
sensors,RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and network is factory to sense the information from machines becomes a new
designed for keeping track of information which industrial research direction of remote monitoring system. In sensor
machines are evaluated with. Different sensors, such as, network, the sensors scattered inside and around the target
temperature transducer, pressure transducer, noise transducer, collaborate with each other to collect data, process and analyze
current sensor, revolution speed transducer, vibration frequency data. Employing sensors, any area could be monitored at
transducer and RFID tags, are employed in the system to collect anytime. Benefit from the development of sensors, the
information from the industrial machines. The lower-layer field
manufacture monitoring system could get the data of the target
data collection system is linked with the upper-layer monitoring
instruments and the surrounding areas from sensors. Then, the
and diagnosis application system via Zigbee, industry Ethernet
and WiFi (Wireless Fidelity). The monitoring system is
collected data is transmitted to the remote monitoring system
implemented on machine tools with a user friendly interface. The through network equipments. Because of its application
tests show that the system could check machine tool status potential, the manufacture monitoring system based on sensors
efficiently. Both software and hardware implementation are attracts a lot of interests recently. Different systems have been
demonstrated in this work. designed for applications, such as environment monitoring,
water monitoring, mine monitoring, etc [1-5]. In most of the
Keywords: Remote Manufacturing Monitoring; RFID; Sensor; existing systems, the data is collected by a data collecting
the Internet of Things module embedded in the target equipments. Then the data can
be transmitted through CAN (Controller Area Network), CC-
I. INTRODUCTION link, industry Ethernet or wireless networks with Zigbee,
GPRS (General Packet Radio Service)[6-10]. However, a lot of
The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging global Internet- aged equipments employed in industry don't have embedded
based information architecture facilitating the exchange of data collecting module and network interface. Thus, it is quite
goods and services in global supply chain networks. From a difficult to obtain the vital information (temperature, noise,
technical point of view, the architecture is based on data vibration, etc) from these aged equipments. A manufacture
communication tools, primarily RFID-tagged items (Radio- monitoring system based on sensors is designed thereupon.
Frequency Identification). The most popular industry proposal Sensors are employed to collect data. Besides the Ethernet and
for the new IT-infrastructure of the IoT is based on an Zigbee, WiFi (Wireless Fidelity) is also used to transmit the
Electronic Product Code (EPC). The “things” are physical data in our designed system. ZigBee over IEEE 802.15.4,
objects carrying RFID tags with a unique EPC; the defines specifications for lowrate WPAN for supporting simple
infrastructure can offer and query EPC Information Services devices that consume minimal power and typically operate in
(EPCIS) both locally and remotely to subscribers. Another tool the personal operating space (POS) of 10m. ZigBee provides
is sensor and Internet. Sensor networks have gained worldwide self-organized, multi-hop, and reliable mesh networking with
attention in recent years. The sensor nodes can sense, measure, long battery lifetime. Wireless fidelity includes IEEE 802.1
and gather information from the environment and, based on la/b/g standards for wireless local area networks. It allows
some local decision process, they can transmit the sensed data users to surf the Internet at broadband speeds when connected
to the user. A Sensor network consists of a number of sensor to an access point (AP) or in ad hoc mode.System construction
nodes (few tens to thousands) working together to monitor a is presented in Section II. Section III demonstrates the design
region to obtain data about the environment. of software and hardware. The implementation of the system
can be found in Section IV, and Section V is the conclusion.
B. Software Design
The data from CNC or "computer numerical controlled"
machines, such as temperature, noise, frequency, current,
Figure 1. System configuration voltage and rotation rate can be transmitted to the remote
terminal supervisor through wireless communication system.
An SQL (Structured Query Language) database is constructed
III. DESIGN OF SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE to keep the collected data. The data flow is shown in Fig. 3.
A. Field Layer Design The software of the system includes data collection,
transmission, display and analysis. The data collection includes
The field layer could be parted into two units, such as the the data process in sensors and host microcontroller. Data
data collecting unit and the data transmitting unit. The vital transmission includes the communication between host
data of equipments, like temperature, electrical current, noise, microcontroller and monitoring and diagnostic system server
vibration, rotational speed, pressure, label of RFID instruments based on WiFi, industry Ethernet and Zigbee. The data
could be collected by the data collecting unit. Then the data is collection and transmission processing is shown in Fig. 4,
transmitted by the data transmitting unit to the upper layer which is described as follows.
through Ethernet with TCP/IP (Transmission Control
Protocol/Internet Protocol),Zigbee or WiFi. Step 1: Initializing system;
RFID Step 2: Collecting data from the sensors, such as
modules temperature, noise, frequency, current, voltage and rotation
Temperature
rate, and collecting ID information of machine tools from
modules Industry RFID tags. The Analog signals are converted to digital signals
ethernet modules
Noise by A/D converter in the host microcontroller;
modules
Monitoring Step 3: Data Preprocessing and data fusion in host
Vibration
Host
microcontroller
Wireless
and
diagnostic
microcontroller;
modules
STC12C5A60S2
modules(WiFi)
system Step 4: Sending Data to the monitoring and diagnostic
server
Speed system server periodically. To compatible the three different
modules
Wireless communication technology (WiFi, industry Ethernet and
Pressure
modules
modules(Zigbee) Zigbee), the communication software is programmed based on
TCP/IP protocol and Socket technology.
Current
modules
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Begin
Initializaiton
Data
Collection
Data Fusion
N
Time Out?
Data
Transmission
End
Figure 6. Data collecting module and the transmitting module based on
Figure 4. Data collecting and Transmission Ethernet
IV. IMPLEMENTATION
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Sci.&Tech. Development Foundation(GKG12118017-2C),
Guilin Sci.&Tech. Development Foundation(20120104-13),
GuangXi Key Foundation,China(No.2011GXSFD01802),
GuangXi Key Lab of Wireless Wide Band
Communicaiton&Signal Processing.
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