Industry 4.0 Middleware Software Architecture Interoperability Analysis

Jepsen, Sune Chung; Worm, Torben; Mørk, Thomas Ingemann; Hviid, Jakob

doi:10.1109/serp4iot52556.2021.00012

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“…To bring ever more value to industrial customers and end users, the manufacturer must constantly review it is copy and enrich its technical assets [2]. Interoperability is one of the development challenges of tomorrow's industries as introduced in [3] and [4] whether on the Software [5] or Hardware side [6].…”

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Homogenous and interoperable signaling computer interlocking through IEC 61499 standard

Abourahim,

Eleuldj,

Amghar

2023

IJECE

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The technological evolution of signaling systems has created a dependency from infrastructure managers to suppliers and industrials dominating the market. Indeed, for each deployed computer interlocking, the modification of field equipment is required to allow an adaptation with the new interlocking in terms of communication protocols and logical interface. In addition, to ensure safe traffic of trains, the communication of railway signaling data is necessary between interlockings. However, delayed deployments from one station to another make the establishment of communication channels costly and difficult, or even impossible, since each supplier keeps confidential its communication protocols and usually opts for interfacing based on wired logic. This paper presents our approach to a homogeneous architecture of interlocking meeting modularity requirements, interoperability, and logical interfacing between interlockings. This approach relies on a classification of internal functions of the computer interlocking, a distribution of the execution of those functions and making useful information available for interfaces between adjacent interlockings through the IEC 61499 standard coupled with service-oriented architecture (SOA).

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