Dynamic dashboard and mail update for robotic system in Industry 4.0

Abstract

A majority of industry based robotic systems are interconnected using IoT (Internet of Things) which has majorly evolved Industry 4.0 applications during the recent decade. The proposed method aims to implement IoT communication to log the details of packages sorted by robotic manipulators. An interactive dashboard is developed using CSS to log the package data and mail alerts are sent to notify the person in-charge. By implementing python request, data is sent to Google Apps Script then concurrently updated in Google Sheets once mail alerts are sent. The logged data is published in a webpage accessed by a HTML based dashboard using AJAX library. Upon completion of sorting, various attributes such as name, quantity, priority and corresponding timestamps of the sorted packages are logged and presented to the end user. In this paper, the functionality of the proposed system is demonstrated in the widely used color-based sorting to perform pick and place tasks. However, the proposed IoT-based approach can be extended to keep track of numerous tasks carried out by several industrial robots within a facility.