An IoT based reference
architecture for 1Dep.
de Ingeniería de Sistemas
Telemáticos 2Dep. de Ingeniería Topográfica y Cartografía Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid, Spain {tomas.robles,
ramon.alcarria, diego.martin}@upm.es 3Innovation and
R&D unit Tragsa Group, Spain {mnc, rcalero,
siglesias, mlopez}@tragsa.es Abstract Water is a
vital resource for life, and its management is a key issue nowadays.
Information and communications technology systems for water control are
currently facing interoperability problems due to the lack of support of
standardization in monitory and control equipment. This problem affects
various processes in water management, such as water consumption,
distribution, system identification and equipment maintenance. OPC UA (Object
Linking and Embedding for Process Control Unified Architecture) is a platform
independent service-oriented architecture for the control of processes in the
logistic and manufacturing sectors. Based on this standard we propose a smart
water management model combining Internet of Things technologies with
business processes coordination and decision support systems. We provide an architecture for sub-system interaction and a detailed
description of the physical scenario in which we will test our
implementation, allowing specific vendor equipment to be manageable and
interoperable in the specific context of water management processes. Keywords: Water management, Irrigation, OPC UA, Internet of Things +: Corresponding author: Ramón Alcarria Departamento de Ingeniería Topográfica y Cartografía, Universidad Politécnica
de Madrid, Journal of
Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications (JoWUA), Vol. 6, No. 1,
pp. 4-23, March 2015 [pdf] |