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16.03.05 Information Day on Embedded Systems - Call 5Jens Schumacher [email protected]
The Product Avatar Concept as a Platform for Networked
Embedded SystemsPresentation of a Proposed IP for IST Call 5
2.5.3 Embedded Systems
Jens SchumacherUniversity of Bremen
16.03.05 Information Day on Embedded Systems - Call 5Jens Schumacher [email protected]
IP Vision• To realise secure, swarming and fault-tolerant
Networked Embedded Systems by applying the Product Avatar concept:– Autonomous, intelligent entities self-organising in
an ambient environment– Implementation and evaluation of applied Product
Avatar concept in select, concrete industrial cases to realise the Intelligent Product paradigm
– Industrial take-up of concept on the basis of Open Source Product Avatar models and architecture
16.03.05 Information Day on Embedded Systems - Call 5Jens Schumacher [email protected]
Smart Dust + simple Sensors:
Smart Tags + Sensors
Etc.
Etc.
Can-BUS access
Automatic System Diagnostics
Positioning
Proximity detection
Safety sensors
Simple diagnostics
# of revolutions
Humidity
Air pressure
Temperature
Mobile Access
Sensor aggregation
Seamless roamingEvent-triggered
transmission
Sensor history
Smart Tags etc. for Perception & Control
16.03.05 Information Day on Embedded Systems - Call 5Jens Schumacher [email protected]
Hybrid World
Material Product / Real World
Product Avatar / Virtual Reality
Agent TechnologyKnowledge-based Systems
Enterprise Systems•ERP•CRM•SRM•PPC
Embedded Systems
RFIDSmart Tags
Auto-ID•EPC•PML•OMS•Savants
Product Model•STEP•IFC•…
Context SensitivityLocation Based ServicesAmbient Intelligence
Intelligent Production Environment
W-LAN, 3GB, ad hoc networks
Positioning & Navigation
AttributesVirtualPersistentUbiquitousFlexibleLow costIntelligentInteractive
Hybrid WorldAttributesMaterialTransientHardly mobileInflexibleHigh cost
16.03.05 Information Day on Embedded Systems - Call 5Jens Schumacher [email protected]
Task Management
Reasoning
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AVATAR
Information about the• Product structure (BOM)• Configuration• Status• etc.
Description of tasks to be performed by the product such as• Maintenance schedule• component acquisition• etc.
Description of the current situation such as• Location• Current task• Driver• Load• …
Information about the relations and constrains of master and context information
Composition of the Product Avatar
Transvision Vamp
16.03.05 Information Day on Embedded Systems - Call 5Jens Schumacher [email protected]
System Architecture
RFID, AmI,
Mobile Networks
PhysicalResource or
Product
Resource or Product Avatar
RFID Sensors
Reasoning/ Agents
…
CRM ERP
PDM
Ontologies
TaskMgmt
PhysicalResource or
Product
Resource or Product Avatar
ElectronicMarketplace
RFID, AmI,
Mobile Networks
Mobile Networks, Internet
ResourcePublishing, Searching
Customers,Consumers
Mobile Networks, Internet
Interaction
Mobile Networks, Internet
Negotiation,Interaction
16.03.05 Information Day on Embedded Systems - Call 5Jens Schumacher [email protected]
Dynamic Resource Discovery & Management
P2P Network of Registry Servers
Ecosystems / Electronic Marketplace
1. Publish XML Resource Description
Resource Avatar Resource publication & discovery analogous to Web Services
Resource Avatars publish Descriptions as XML Resource Description on Registry Servers in the Electronic Marketplace (analogous to publishing WSDL on UDDI servers)
Product Avatars search for suitable Resources in the Marketplace
Registry Servers forward searches for Resource Descriptions across the Marketplace similar to P2P applicationsand return results
Product Avatar begins negotiations with Resources selected by own reasoning
2. Search for Resources
Product Avatar
4. Autonomous negotiation
3. Results:ResourceDescriptions
16.03.05 Information Day on Embedded Systems - Call 5Jens Schumacher [email protected]
Relevance to the Strategic Objective
• The IP will apply the Product Avatar concept to provide a middleware and platform for secure, swarming and fault-tolerant Networked Embedded Systems
• Each physical entity is represented in the virtual world by a Product Avatar which allow heterogeneous physical objects to cooperate with each other autonomously and intelligently by means of agent and reasoning technology
• The IP is driven by ambitious future applications from a number of perspectives:– Intelligent & Extended Products (Added value through additional
services, enabling smart homes etc.)– Flexible, reconfigurable, autonomous production and
manufacturing– …
• Scalability & self-organisation through Product Avatar & P2P platform architecture
• Ad-hoc networking enabling for arbitrary objects in the hybrid world
• Open interfaces to 3rd parties guaranteed by Open Source platform & exploitation approach
16.03.05 Information Day on Embedded Systems - Call 5Jens Schumacher [email protected]
Benefits & Impact on the European Level
• Greatly increase production efficiency through a vastly more efficient allocation of production resources
• Complete transparency across the life-cycle– Greatly enhanced product quality– New after sales services
• Improved customer product acceptance and generation of new products and services
• Potential for new high value added services embedded in the Intelligent Product
• Powerful tools to move towards Knowledge Society• Supports transition to customer-driven market • Evolution of employees towards new roles and
competencies