Merging Agents and Cloud Services in Industrial Applications

Abstract EN

A novel idea to combine agent technology and cloud computing for monitoring a plant floor system is presented.

Cloud infrastructure has been leveraged as the main mechanism for hosting the data and processing needs of a modern industrial information system.

The cloud offers unlimited storage and data processing in a near real-time fashion.

This paper presents a software-as-a-service (SaaS) architecture for augmenting industrial plant-floor reporting capabilities.

This reporting capability has been architected using networked agents, worker roles, and scripts for building a scalable data pipeline and analytics system.