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Bringing deterministic industrial networking to the W3C web of things with TSN and OPC UA

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Sushmit Bhattacharjee,

Matthias KovatschAuthors Info & Claims

IoT '20: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Internet of Things

Article No.: 9, Pages 1 - 8

https://doi.org/10.1145/3410992.3410997

Published: 06 October 2020 Publication History

Abstract

IoT is often associated with low-power wireless, where best-effort communication is sufficient for many of its applications. Yet, in particular in Industrial IoT, strict quality of service (QoS) guarantees are required to enable deterministic real-time applications. Hence, wired communications are still predominant here, with Ethernet having become the main media for the industrial fieldbuses such as PROFINET, EtherCAT, or the emerging Field-Level Communications (FLC) of OPC UA. With the addition of Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN), an IEEE standards family for deterministic networking over Ethernet, Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) can converge even at the shopfloor, as TSN-enabled Ethernet allows for several traffic types to co-exist in the same network. This paper proposes an extension to the W3C Web of Things (WoT) for semantics-enabled connectivity, which allows to cover application QoS requirements and network configuration within the W3C WoT abstractions. We contribute a QoS vocabulary for the W3C WoT Thing Description as well as design and open-source implementation of protocol bindings for OPC UA and NETCONF. Moreover, we discuss the challenges and pitfalls when designing new protocol bindings for W3C WoT.

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IoT '20: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Internet of Things

October 2020

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DOI:10.1145/3410992

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Deng LXie GLiu HHan YLi RLi K(2022)A Survey of Real-Time Ethernet Modeling and Design Methodologies: From AVB to TSNACM Computing Surveys10.1145/348733055:2(1-36)Online publication date: 18-Jan-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3487330
Mizutani IRamanathan GMayer S(2021)Integrating Multi-Disciplinary Offline and Online Engineering in Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems through DevOpsProceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Internet of Things10.1145/3494322.3494328(40-47)Online publication date: 8-Nov-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3494322.3494328

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