Pre-Conference Symposium 5: Role of Sensors in Building IoT Systems & Industry 4.0 Applications
(Room Meeting Room 212AB)
25 Jun 19
9:00 AM
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5:00 PM
Sensors are the key factors for assisting any IoT application and are one of the major hardware components needed to form IoT systems. Gartner reports that “The sensor market will evolve continuously through 2023. New sensors will enable a wider range of situations and events to be detected, current sensors will fall in price to become more affordable or will be packaged in new ways to support new applications, and new algorithms will emerge to deduce more information from current sensor technologies”. According to research from Business Insider, more than 24 billion internet-connected devices will be installed around the world by 2020.
Industry 4.0 is growing at a rapid pace; the economy is on the threshold of the fourth industrial revolution.
Manufacturing industry must address new challenges to data set produced by several sensors in real time. This Pre-Conference Symposium examines how the sensor designer, manufacturers, and vendors can gear up to meet fast and efficient changeover of production processes. Fraunhofer USA will discuss a few use cases an industry consortium is developing open source middleware that allows manufacturers to network and integrate existing sensors, machines, and production processes so that Industry 4.0 applications can be easily implemented and allow for quick, efficient reconfiguration of manufacturing. This Pre-Conference Symposium introduces BaSys 4.0, a German research project focusing on how manufacturing system would be architected in order to reap the benefits of I4.0 as well as an open source software platform that addresses many of the technical challenges related it I4.0 and which can be used to build your I4.0 manufacturing system upon. Industry consortium members include ABB Ltd, Robert Bosch GmbH, Kuka Roboter GmbH, PSI Automotive & Industry GmbH, among others. This Pre-Conference Symposium provides teaches attendees IoT fundamentals, building blocks, and discover how the sensors can be programmed to interface with IoT hardware cloud platforms and operating systems such as BaSys 4.0 designed by Fraunhofer. It provides the marketing and design aspects needed in integrating smart sensors into IoT framework(s). The agenda is structured to be useful for BD, marketing, designers, architect, hardware engineers and software developers and covers lab sessions to provide demo of a few IoT applications such as home automation, environmental, Agriculture, health care and Industrial 4.0 domains. As an added benefit, this Pre-Conference Symposium will be certified by Sonoma State University, and each registered attendee will receive certification for attendance.