3D Distributed Control System Platform

Objective

Providing industry strength platform for company-wide, integrated, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Functionality, for otherwise proprietary devices.

Paving the way to new User Experience of IoT.

Graphics are used to the extent of visualizing Processes and States in time-critical complex environment, otherwise inaccessible.

Graphical environments and platforms on the market attempt to interface to a database for presentation or reporting. This Project has its Architecture built from the ground-up to integrate data storage, workflow, and visualization.

Primary Focus

Benefiting:

Industrial Automation

Hospitals

Communications Network Maintenance

Simulation of Interactive Environments

Components

The diagram reflects logical relationships, not actual flows.

Sensor Acquisition and Low-Level Device Communication Library

Commonly, digital Devices controls and readings comply to a number of known standards and buses, starting with the legacy RS-232. See for example, Ghabbour, 1990.

A cumulative Library is built through a Device Parameters Editor.

Inter-Networking

A selection of Networking protocols is offered to access Devices and Shop floors data and streaming over known Network, Session, and Transport architectures.

Process Automation API

Based on Process Model, an application-oriented language is being developed. To contrast with IEC 61131-3 (for Programmable Logic Controllers), it uses the primitives START, STOP, etc.

Process and Shop Floor Model and History

It is a part of a universal model, that has been developed, to store and navigate enterprise-wide processes, materials, sites, operators, etc. with any level of complexity.

Knowledge Navigation (actual screen)

Graphical Browsing (actual screen)

Specifically, as a Platform Architecture, it is open to any Process Model For this purpose, it uses a Process Model parameters set that has been developed in Ghabbour, 1997.

User Display and Control

A wide selection of Diagrams, Views, and near real-life representations of Processes, States, Indicators, across Devices and Shop floors is offered to Process Designers, and Control Technicians, along with Dashboards to Management. It allows Industrial Engineers to Edit Planes, Device Locations, Wiring, and Flows, to define a Site/Multiple Site complex setup.

Bibliography

Ghabbour, Rafik, 1990, “Through the Serial Link”, Business Computer User M.E., 3 (5): 32.

Ghabbour, Rafik, 1997, Bilingual Expert System for Environmental Aspects Identification and Impact Assessment, presented to U.S.-Egypt Science and Technology Joint Fund, Nov. 1997. (Abstract).

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Part of Vision 5

Initiative Sponsored by Dr Rafik Ghabbour