TY - JOUR

T1 - A multi-level IIOT platform for boosting mines digitalization

AU - Minon, Raul

AU - Lopez-de-Armentia, Juan

AU - Bonilla, Lander

AU - Brazaola, Aitor

AU - Lana, Ibai

AU - Palacios, M. Carmen

AU - Mueller, Szymon

AU - Blaszczak, Michal

AU - Zeiner, Herwig

AU - Tschuden, Julia

AU - Quadri, Mohmammad Jusuf

AU - Garcia-Mila, Ignasi

AU - Bartoli, Andrea

AU - Gomolla, Norbert

AU - Fernandez, Alberto

AU - Segarra, Pablo

AU - Sanchidrián, José Angel

AU - Hartlieb, Philipp

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2024

PY - 2025/2

Y1 - 2025/2

N2 - This paper presents an innovative IIoT multi-level platform tailored to address the specific needs of the mining domain. The platform has been conceptualized and built in the context of the illuMINEation European project. For this purpose, mining specific use cases have been designed such as promoting underground safe areas, performing efficient mining operations or boosting predictive maintenance approaches. Then, specific requirements have been identified and, as a result, the platform has been developed. It consists of four-level layered platform: (1) edge devices layer to manage several sensors deployed in the mines; (2) edge box layer to provide in-mine operations such as filtering, streaming and processing; (3) fog layer which offers an overall perspective of each mine; and (4) cloud layer to centralize the data of all the mines and to provide powerful processing capabilities. In addition, the platform is robustly secured in terms of protecting communications confidentiality and access control and also provides a toolbox aimed at manipulating 3D complex images to obtain operable mine-domain novel user interfaces. Finally, a platform validation is proposed where three different use cases are explained to better show and demonstrate the capabilities of the platform.

AB - This paper presents an innovative IIoT multi-level platform tailored to address the specific needs of the mining domain. The platform has been conceptualized and built in the context of the illuMINEation European project. For this purpose, mining specific use cases have been designed such as promoting underground safe areas, performing efficient mining operations or boosting predictive maintenance approaches. Then, specific requirements have been identified and, as a result, the platform has been developed. It consists of four-level layered platform: (1) edge devices layer to manage several sensors deployed in the mines; (2) edge box layer to provide in-mine operations such as filtering, streaming and processing; (3) fog layer which offers an overall perspective of each mine; and (4) cloud layer to centralize the data of all the mines and to provide powerful processing capabilities. In addition, the platform is robustly secured in terms of protecting communications confidentiality and access control and also provides a toolbox aimed at manipulating 3D complex images to obtain operable mine-domain novel user interfaces. Finally, a platform validation is proposed where three different use cases are explained to better show and demonstrate the capabilities of the platform.

KW - Big data

KW - Cloud continuum

KW - Edge

KW - Fog

KW - Mine digitalization

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85202934351&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.future.2024.107501

DO - 10.1016/j.future.2024.107501

M3 - Article

VL - 163

JO - Future generation computer systems

JF - Future generation computer systems

SN - 0167-739X

M1 - 107501

ER -