The emergence of new digital technologies provides new tools to the industry, enabling it to be more efficient, more effective and more responsive. It is now possible to process huge amount of data, to make large-scale observations and to draw up algorithms to optimize the performance of industrial machines. However, the process of integrating these new technologies can be complex, as traditional industrial objects communicate via very specific protocols that are often incompatible with those used by cloud services.
In recent years, the use of cloud services has become widespread among companies, and solutions have been developed to enable their adoption at reasonable costs. We note the appearance of systems called gateways used as intermediaries between industrial objects and the network. The very pronounced increase of research topics on this type of devices testifies to the growing interest in them, and this thesis is therefore part of this dynamic.
The large diversity of the existing industrial protocols induces de facto the necessity to have a great number of different gateways. The gateway presented here, developed from a Raspberry Pi, aims to meet this need since it implements several protocols, namely Modbus, Canbus, MQTT and HTTP. Its low cost, its design, its open-source aspect, as well as the architecture of its program make it an affordable, adaptable and easily adoptable system. An experimental environment has been produced using Arduino microcontrollers in order to carry out tests to validate the performance of the gateway. More than thirty tests were performed, demonstrating its error-free operation for the various options offered by the gateway.
| Date | 9 Aug 2022 |
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| Original language | French |
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| Awarding Institution | - École de technologie supérieure
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| Supervisor | Tony Wong (Supervisor) |
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Jacquin, A. (Author),
Wong (Supervisor),
9 Aug 2022Student thesis: Master's thesis › Master in Engineering: Automated Manufacturing Engineering