Tech Briefs Magazine - October 2023 - Sensor-14

Wireless Sensor Networking for the IIoT
F
actories of all sizes are incorporating
automation at ever increasing rates.
Among the reasons for that are reshoring,
the idea that automating factories is
a way of lowering labor costs for U.S.
manufacturing so that domestic manufacturing
becomes more cost-effective
when you compare it to the costs of offshoring.
You can take advantage of the
much lower labor rates in many countries,
but you have to add in the costs of
more complex management and logistics,
as well as the costs of shipping.
And then there's the U.S. labor shortage,
the difficulty of finding enough
people who are willing to work in factories,
while at the same time, a significant
portion of the existing workforce is
aging toward retirement.
And of course, the increasing productivity
gains due to automation are good
for the bottom line. Automation not
only reduces the costs of production in
the long run, but it also helps maintain
reliable high-quality results and consistently
predictable time frames.
The downside of automating an existing
factory is the initial investment, not
just in dollars, but also in the necessary
down time for making such basic changes.
Figure 1. Analyzing maintenance data to forecast machine maintenance. (Image: Kristian/Adobe Stock)
However, most factories already have some
automated processes using PLCs and other
industrial controllers, generally running
independently of each other, so that's a
head start. The next step is to integrate
all of that into a single network - the
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).
Edge AI Akida offerings (example spectrum)
MCU
MCU+ML
(Not optimal but within performance range)
(MCU carries a lot of computation)
-S
With Min-Spec or
Mid-Spec MCU
-E
EitherStandalone
or with Min-SpecMCU
Object
Detection
Advanced
Speech
Recognition
Object
Vibration
Detection
Anomaly
Detection
Sensor Edge
Figure 2. (Image: BrainChip)
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Keyword
Spotting
Sensor
Fusion
Low-res
Presence
Detection
Gesture
Detection
Gesture Classification
Recognition
Biometric
Recognition
(Classification
+ Localization)
Advanced
Sequence
Prediction
Video
Object
Detection
and
Tracking
Ideally the factory network should also
connect with the office network, to enable
management to make more informed decisions.
And it should enable connecting
to the cloud for complicated analytics and
large data storage - as well to the internet
for connectivity beyond the factory.
MPU+GPU+ML
(Higher end, higher cost, higher power)
-P
With Mid-SpecMCU
or Mid-Spec MPU
Vision
Transformer
Networks
Network Edge
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