An Industry 4.0 focused, remote control configuration for smart actuators to enable social distancing practices.

专注于工业 4.0 的智能执行器远程控制配置，可实现社交距离实践。

• 批准号: 58509
• 金额: $ 6.36万
• 依托单位: THE SMART ACTUATOR COMPANY LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Feasibility Studies
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=58509
• 关键词: Industry; 4.0; focused; remote; control

In response to new social distancing normalities and in consideration of occupational safety, industries must respond by implementing measures to standardise social distancing in working environments. This is achieved by promoting changed practices such as home-working, and in line with this, greater remote systems control to minimise physical interaction and increase occupational safety.Today, the actuator industry operates on a model for the provision of continual support and engineers on-site to carry out calibration, reconfiguration, and diagnosis of faults within a closed system. In response to this expected growth demand for 'Industrial Internet of Things' solutions, the 'SARCC' project makes game-changing advancements, by integrating GPRS/3G/4G capability and developing the relevant user interfaces to enable remote-control access.SARCC provides a market unique proposition that enables our customer segments of installers/service suppliers and end-user operators, throughout many industries, to:1. Rapidly reconfigure actuators within processes to maximise efficiency and improve accuracy.2. Remotely diagnose faults resulting in fewer engineer visits required.3. Adjust business models to react to market needs rapidly by adjusting process operations in real-time.4. Installation/commissioning is made more efficient by enhanced access to diagnostics data.These benefits result in reduced capital costs and operating costs as well as improving process efficiency.By way of example, in the instance of food production irrigation systems, actuator valves are often remotely located. If manual operation is too labour intensive, remote control results in high capital costs for energy supply and control access infrastructure. With SARCC project enhancements to our actuators, on-site control, configuration and diagnostics are completed remotely (with energy supply from a small solar panel). Remote control minimises costs while increasing control access.In the case of a building fire, a gas pipeline could be shut-off remotely thus reducing risk and damage potential.SARCC also responds to the needs of next-generation water networks, where leaks are detected on the water supply network in remote locations -- a current manual operation can be performed remotely and rapidly to switch supply lines to maintain water supply and reduce leak impact.Our solution is beneficial for many industries, notably: food production/processing, healthcare, gas/water supply, office/apartment buildings.Having already developed a prototype, during the project we plan to:* build-in additional software features;* develop customer front-end and access;* create customer system integration interfaces and apps;* commercially demonstrate the integrated system.

为了应对新的社会距离常态，并考虑到职业安全，各行业必须采取措施，将工作环境中的社会距离标准化。这是通过促进改变的做法，如家庭工作，并与此相一致，更好的远程系统控制，以最大限度地减少物理交互和提高职业安全。今天，执行机构行业运营的模式，提供持续的支持和工程师在现场执行校准，重新配置，并在一个封闭的系统内的故障诊断。为响应对“工业物联网”解决方案的预期增长需求，“SARCC”项目通过集成GPRS/3G/4G功能并开发相关的用户界面以实现远程控制访问，取得了改变游戏规则的进步。SARCC提供了一个市场独特的建议，使我们在许多行业的安装商/服务供应商和最终用户运营商的客户群能够：1.快速重新配置过程中的执行器，以最大限度地提高效率和提高精度。远程诊断故障，减少了工程师的出诊次数。通过实时调整流程操作，调整业务模式以快速响应市场需求。通过增强对诊断数据的访问，提高了安装/调试的效率。这些好处降低了资本成本和运行成本，并提高了工艺效率。例如，在食品生产灌溉系统中，执行机构阀门通常位于远程位置。如果人工操作过于劳动密集型，远程控制会导致能源供应和控制接入基础设施的资本成本较高。随着SARCC项目对我们执行器的增强，现场控制、配置和诊断都可以远程完成(通过一个小型太阳能电池板提供能源)。远程控制降低了成本，同时增加了控制通道。在发生建筑火灾的情况下，燃气管道可以远程关闭，从而降低风险和破坏潜力。SARCC还响应了下一代供水网络的需求，在远程位置的供水网络上检测到泄漏--当前的手动操作可以远程快速地切换供水线路，以维持供水并减少泄漏影响。我们的解决方案对许多行业都有好处，特别是：食品生产/加工、医疗保健、燃气/水供应、办公室/公寓建筑。已经开发了一个原型，在项目期间，我们计划：*内置额外的软件功能；*开发客户前端和接入；*创建客户系统集成接口和APP；*商用演示集成系统。