TY - JOUR
T1 - A multi-level IIOT platform for boosting mines digitalization
AU - Miñón, Raúl
AU - López-de-Armentia, Juan
AU - Bonilla, Lander
AU - Brazaola, Aitor
AU - Laña, Ibai
AU - Palacios, M. Carmen
AU - Mueller, Szymon
AU - Blaszczak, Michal
AU - Zeiner, Herwig
AU - Tschuden, Julia
AU - Quadri, Mohammad Yusuf
AU - Garcia-Milà, Ignasi
AU - Bartoli, Andrea
AU - Gormolla, Norbert
AU - Fernández, Alberto
AU - Segarra, Pablo
AU - Sanchidrián, José A.
AU - Hartlieb, Philipp
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024
PY - 2025/2
Y1 - 2025/2
N2 - This paper presents an innovative IIoT multi-level platform tailored to address the specific needs of the mining domain. The platform has been conceptualized and built in the context of the illuMINEation European project. For this purpose, mining specific use cases have been designed such as promoting underground safe areas, performing efficient mining operations or boosting predictive maintenance approaches. Then, specific requirements have been identified and, as a result, the platform has been developed. It consists of four-level layered platform: (1) edge devices layer to manage several sensors deployed in the mines; (2) edge box layer to provide in-mine operations such as filtering, streaming and processing; (3) fog layer which offers an overall perspective of each mine; and (4) cloud layer to centralize the data of all the mines and to provide powerful processing capabilities. In addition, the platform is robustly secured in terms of protecting communications confidentiality and access control and also provides a toolbox aimed at manipulating 3D complex images to obtain operable mine-domain novel user interfaces. Finally, a platform validation is proposed where three different use cases are explained to better show and demonstrate the capabilities of the platform.
AB - This paper presents an innovative IIoT multi-level platform tailored to address the specific needs of the mining domain. The platform has been conceptualized and built in the context of the illuMINEation European project. For this purpose, mining specific use cases have been designed such as promoting underground safe areas, performing efficient mining operations or boosting predictive maintenance approaches. Then, specific requirements have been identified and, as a result, the platform has been developed. It consists of four-level layered platform: (1) edge devices layer to manage several sensors deployed in the mines; (2) edge box layer to provide in-mine operations such as filtering, streaming and processing; (3) fog layer which offers an overall perspective of each mine; and (4) cloud layer to centralize the data of all the mines and to provide powerful processing capabilities. In addition, the platform is robustly secured in terms of protecting communications confidentiality and access control and also provides a toolbox aimed at manipulating 3D complex images to obtain operable mine-domain novel user interfaces. Finally, a platform validation is proposed where three different use cases are explained to better show and demonstrate the capabilities of the platform.
KW - Big data
KW - Cloud continuum
KW - Edge
KW - Fog
KW - Mine digitalization
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U2 - 10.1016/j.future.2024.107501
DO - 10.1016/j.future.2024.107501
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85202934351
SN - 0167-739X
VL - 163
JO - Future Generation Computer Systems
JF - Future Generation Computer Systems
M1 - 107501
ER -