A Full-Wireless Network Architecture Based on the Industrial Internet of Things Paradigm

The Industrial Internet of Things is currently gain- ing momentum in production plants as a way to efficiently support a number of functions, e.g., preventive maintenance. To this extent, a number of solutions have been proposed in the past few years, which typically rely on a layered approach. In this paper, a general-purpose architecture is presented for factory automation systems, which mimics the industrial networks used at the shop-floor. In particular, it relies on a modular structure for devices and protocols aimed at reducing implementation effort, so as to ease its adoption in real-world applications. A preliminary experimental testbed based on such architecture has been set up, and it operations verified.