Monitoring Roadside Traffic Enforcement Equipment within SoT and ISoS Frameworks

The fast evolution of 4G and 5G mobile networks has enabled new paradigms in cyber-physical systems towards the Industry 4.0 revolution. The increasing complexity of automated processes encourages monitoring industrial or organizational operation facilities’ cyber-physical systems (sensors and actuators) and informatics systems to guarantee their correct functioning. However, dealing with heterogeneous systems and devices provided by manufacturers with different programming interfaces might hinder this task.The Synoptics of Things (SoT) framework aims to facilitate Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System (SCADA) development, as user or operator interface windows to an organization’s technological landscape. The proposed models enable the creation and management of the life cycle of customized operator’s synoptic interfaces used for introspection or interactions with cyber-physical systems (CPS) or informatics systems (ISystems) elements.In this paper, we present and discuss the adoption of SoT to the SINCRO project (National System for Velocity Control) as a case study to show the openness and value of the framework. The SINCRO project is a national traffic enforcement network comprised of cyber-physical systems such as cinemometers and cabins for road traffic control. The motivation is to support the proper system functioning of roadside equipment by adopting the SoT framework for visualizing specialized user operations interfaces. It further challenges the validation of organizing technological artifacts of the Information Technology (IT) operation infrastructure under the Informatics System of Systems (ISoS) framework.