Title
Virtual Sensors: a Tool to Improve Reliability
Abstract
Virtual sensors is a powerful concept applicable in new application domain like health-care, entertainment, fitness, sport, social interaction etc. tanks its capability of integration of new components and functionality. Actually, virtual sensors can potentially use heterogeneous physical sensors in order to combine different types of data to compute a measurement. The concept “virtual Sensor” allows to apply the principle so-called analytical redundancy. This point is important because it allows to also achieving the objective of extending reliability and availability of the application domain without adding extra hardware complexity. Starting from the previous consideration, Virtual Sensors (VS) can be candidate to offer a solution to reduce the criticality of high-risk failures increasing their detectability and predicting the related failure mode. VS and the validation procedure in the measurement process allowed by their use, offer a new tool in the Industry 4.0 scenario. In the paper, an example of virtual sensor devoted to monitoring different sections of an inverter dedicated to photovoltaic application will be analyzed. In particular, will be shown how it is possible to monitor the temperature of the CPU employed on the control board.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/MetroInd4.0IoT48571.2020.9138173
2020 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Industry 4.0 & IoT
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
Virtual sensors,redundancy,measurement uncertainty,target uncertainty,failures,FTA
Conference
978-1-7281-4892-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Loredana Cristaldi14514.08
Alessandro Ferrero2477.13
Marco Macchi300.34
Amirabbas Mehrafshan400.34
Pasquale Arpaia59529.77