Motivation

The manufacturing and machinery field was always an area of my personal interest and when itcame the opportunity to help in the evolution of this area it immediately caught my attention. Combiningthis to the possibility of including some management knowledge that I acquired throughthe course, and I knew it was the right dissertation for me. Since this dissertation combines bothfields, and it includes the possibility to work with communications and sensors, my motivationwild be on its highest through the development of the project.

Proposed Goals

The main goal of this dissertation is to conceive a solution to implement features from the Internet of Things at industrial equipment level. In order to accomplish that that solution must have several components to connect to a complex framework and thus be able to implement IoT features. Exploring the IoT concept, at the industrial machinery level were found some of those features such as: acquire information from the solution exterior, access external information and process data at the operation and management levels. The division in phases was inevitable to help the organization and the flow throughout the project and that division can be considered as objectives inside the main goal:

Explore the IoT concept, at the industrial machinery level;
Detail the architecture and concept of the solution;
Development and implementation of the prototype;
Validation and conclusions.