After you have built your base IoT/I4.0 strategy and first business plan of your new service, one partial project will be to plan and design the sensor network. First you have to identify existing sensors in your environment you can use for your IoT/I4.0 project. This could be sensors that are already installed within manufacutring machines, engines, vales, buildings, etc.
If your use case is a new one or for an environment that do not have any sensors installed yet, you must highlight the following selection criterias.
1) What kind of physical reading you need for your solution? Or log data from existing machines. e.g. POS systems, ATMs, onboard computer, video cameras, RFID readers, etc.
2) In which environment you will install the sensors? Do you need an independent power supply? Is the sensor installed in a harsh environment (temperature, humidity, dust, vandal protection, etc.)
3) How can you connect the sensors to an secure network?
4) Cost of sensor maintenance and recalibration services (if needed)
5) Vendor independence of the used machineries within a manufacturing plant / factory
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