Complete automation of an energy consumption reduction strategy from a water treatment and distribution facility, inside an industrial internet of things‐compliant proactive historian application

Abstract

The Industrial Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 paradigms are steering the industrial landscape towards better connected entities, superior interoperability and information exchange, which lays the basis for developing more intelligent solutions that are already starting to bring nu-merous benefits. The current research aligns to this course, in an attempt to build an automated and autonomous software tool, capable of reducing the energy consumption of a water treatment and distribution facility, by optimizing the water sources usage. Based on several previous researches, the present paper details both the complete automation of the optimizing strategy inside a proactive historian application and the tests executed with the finished solution. Possessing the abilities to directly influence the monitored system in a non‐invasive manner, and to link all the sequences of the algorithm automatically, the solution is now ready for long‐term functioning without any ex-ternal interference.