Alarm detection and monitoring in industrial environment using hybrid wireless sensor network

Cyber-physical production systems, relying on the latest development of computer science, information and communication technologies, manufacturing science and technology are leading the way to a new industrial age, defined by the fourth industrial revolution. In this paper we present alarm detection in the industrial environment using a hybrid wireless sensor network (HWSN). As wireless static sensors are highly limited in terms of sensing, computation, communication, battery life, and the actions they can perform, our framework includes an autonomous mobile robot as an integral part of HWSN. We propose the mobile robot navigation technique based on sensor nodes as tags attached in the robot’s environment to define a target point for a mobile robot inspection task. The experimental scenarios presented in this paper are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of alarm detection using the wireless sensor network with mobile robot inspection.