Internet of Things Platform Architecture for Smart Factories

Modern manufacturing and process industry require new adaptive and flexible production system in order to cope with the production requirements of the 21st century. In particular, fast setup of production lines, improved product quality and production efficiency are seen as some of the benefits of adopting Industry 4.0 approaches. In order to achieve the aforementioned goals, there is a need to intelligently process the data collected by using IIoT system and provide results that can be used to act upon the equipment, industrial processes and end products. In this paper, the aim is to present a preliminary architecture which will be used to support the goals of H2020 EU project AI-PROFICIENT. The architecture is divided into multiple layers: system edge, cloud platform and human interaction which comprise functionalities related to data integration, processing and visualization.