A holonic manufacturing approach applied to communicate concrete: Concept and first development

Abstract

The rapid development of Internet of Things has enabled intelligent products that can be applied to the Industrial 4.0, Smart City, Smart Supply Chain and Smart Buildings. Its autonomy and flexibility make possible to construct intelligent manufacturing systems. In this paper, we present the McBIM project that is based on the concept of communicating materials. A holonic manufacturing approach is proposed to handle these problems. It aims to include a WSN to the product to make it more sensitive and aware of its own internal conditions. In our approach, the “sensing device” is an embedded Wireless Sensor Network that can collect “internal” data of the intelligent material. In this context, physical and digital parts are defined and related to four main challenges. Some existing solutions of data collection architectures are discussed for the physical part. Furthermore, these algorithms are compared with the required performance metrics of our application. Finally we conclude with some perspectives for future work.