Industrial Automation by Development of Novel Scheduling Algorithm for Industrial IoT: IIoT Re-birth Out of Covid-19 Scenario

ABSTRACT

Internet of things is a progressive terminology as a future era of computing. The covid-19 outbreak that is drawn once in a hundred years’ experience to all the mankind and so as per the saying “necessity is the mother of invention”, nearly all scientific as well as technological fields are battled to develop various verticals like drugs discovery, health care, distant education and so the major challenge of managing industry with modest human resources. To maintain countries’ economic status high, as Indian industrial domain majorly contributes to GDP growth that further needs to be kept running in any predicament. The prolonged lockdown hampered the global economy and hence, this paper focuses on the Industrial IoT, where without human assistance, many key processes can be monitored and executed. As information technology (IT) employees can work from home, industrial processes can also execute various automation tasks using process scheduler. This paper presents the new CatchPro protocol request scheduling algorithm for IIoT which can be a great solution for unmanned process execution with the performance improvement of 2.56%. Paper also presents the methodology and framework for industrial automation using MQTT protocol, where manufacturing units can efficiently work with remote monitoring and automation of processes. This paper targets the three important roles as process execution without in-person process handling, algorithmic execution for scheduling of the industrial tasks, and more efficient execution of IoT protocols for machine-to-machine communication via sensor network. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.