Industrial IoT middleware using a multi-agent system for consistency-based diagnostic in cement factory

With the evolution of the internet of things (IoT) in several domains, and due to its big need in the industry, Industrial Internet of things (IIoT) becomes the suitable naming for this accompaniment IIoT changed the general view of the industry intelligently and over the internet This overlapping of IoT and industry requires special treatment when the system deals with heterogeneous devices in distributed environment and complex tasks In this paper, we propose a middleware solution based on multi-agents-system (MAS) to handle the distributed control of complex systems autonomously in industrial environment The proposed middleware enables M2M communications among system’s components In this work, we also addressed the distributed diagnostic for real industrial system using MAS with new suitable communication strategy to support the heterogeneity and interoperability issued in IIoT and assure real-time system monitoring and control Finally, we present a qualitative evaluation of the proposed solution on real case-study Keywords: industrial internet of things; multi-agents system; middleware; distributed diagnostic; manufacturing system.