Authors:
Sreekant Sreedharan
1
;
Muthu Ramachandran
2
;
Soma Ghosh
3
and
Suraj Prakash
1
Affiliations:
1
TEXMiN Foundation, IIT-ISM Dhanbad, 3rdFloor CRE Building, Dhanbad, India
;
2
Department of Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K.
;
3
Engineering and Architecture AI/ML, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bangalore, India
Keyword(s):
Architecture, Industrial IoT, Mining4.0, Edge Computing, Distributed Computing, Smart Infrastructure, Private Cloud Computing, Real-Time Operating Systems, Wireless Mesh Networking, Wearable Computing, Distributed Automation.
Abstract:
Over 41.6 billion IoT devices are expected to come online by 2025, collectively capable of generating 80 zettabytes (ZB) of data. Despite the relentless progress in adoption of smart devices occurring around all us - in our smart homes, our wearable devices, our smart cities and workplaces -, progress in the adoption of smart technology in the mining sector has languished. Yet the mining sector powers our energy systems and makes components for smart devices possible, while employing over 4.5 million people world-wide in some of the most extreme & hostile environments. This paper presents the design of a prototype industrial IoT platform for large-scale industrial automation of conventional mines.