PLANT MANAGEMENT
LocaTOR is designed to improve process plants’ operational efficiencies as well as safety
that goes beyond M2M communications to cover a variety of protocols, domains and applications. The interconnection of tags to other embedded devices (including smart objects), will enable automation in nearly all fields and specifically in process engineering. “It makes perfect sense
for LocaTOR to include the capability to operate across other ‘IoT platforms’ and utilise IoT-designed communications, such as LAN, WAN and LPWAN networks (for example LoRa and SigFox) and use core modules designed for the IoT. The emergence and uptake of such specifications, and the availability of
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standardised sensor modules (tags) will offer more opportunities for RTLS and perhaps extend the range of the solutions beyond the current on-site focus.
“The current ‘little data’ (datum by datum
of positional information) stream from the tag constantly drips into the big data pool at the database. Each datum can be used and deleted, used and stored, or not used at all. With current deployments, a large amount of information is deleted as it is not useful (e.g. binary status of safe/ not safe is all that the solution requires).” Interestingly, Bedford believes
that the next big development in the industrial sector could occur as a result of the enthusiasm for ‘connected’ devices in the consumer market. “Wearables are starting to drive context and
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