CAPABILITY

I³ has developed a range of capabilities around Collect, Connect, and Comprehend to address industry needs in Track, Monitor, and Optimise.

The I³ programme is now part of A*STAR’s Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech) which offers a full range of smart and sustainable manufacturing capabilities.

COLLECT

EFFICIENT SENSING

Reliable data collection under harsh outdoor conditions with or without readily available power source. Parameters that can be collected include motion, temperature, pressure, vibration and pH.

Packaging and ruggedisation of sensors. E.g. ability of sensors to operate at high/low temperature and pressure, corrosive environment and underwater.
Low power and energy harvesting solutions to prolong system longevity. E.g. MCU scheduling, piezoelectric harvesters, etc.
Sensor fusion to infer new conditions from multiple data sources.

CONNECT

Connecting the edge to the cloud in an intelligent and secure manner.

Communications in challenging environments. E.g. high steel, noisy, over long distances, etc.
Upcoming mobile communications. E.g. NB-IoT, 5G, etc.
Cyber-physical security to protect the system (device, network, data).

COMPREHEND

Integrated, agile IIoT system architecture for seamless system level analytics and interoperability.

Data fusion and multi-model data analytics for prognostics. E.g. predictive maintenance and anomaly detection.
Understanding the various standards and protocols in IoT.
Distributed ledger for trusted transactions in a supply chain. E.g. block chain.
Abstraction layer to enable interoperability across different platform systems & standards.
A digital control centre for real-time monitoring and decision making.
E.g. AWS, Google, Cloud, Microsoft Azure, etc.

TRACK . MONITOR . OPTIMISE

TRACK AND TRACE

For assets that are being deployed or products leaving the factory, getting a perspective of their location, condition and utilisation is critical in order to improve your business operations.

With your problem statements, we can develop customised solutions, with relevant sensors, communications protocol and IIoT platform, to enable you to locate and determine the condition of your assets or products in real time, and alert if action is required.

PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE

Data collected from sensors deployed on equipment can be analysed to aid in identifying potential failures. With our modelling algorithms, we can help you to move away from scheduled preventive maintenance to a predictive maintenance model. This will improve your machine uptime and utilisation, hence leading to better process quality and productivity.

RESOURCE OPTIMISATION

The asset "track and trace" offers real-time visibility of asset and product location, condition, and utilisation. Having a predictive maintenance model ensures that the assets and products are in healthy working conditions. Combined into a system, this enables the global management of all the assets and products within an organisation. The optimisation system improves the utilisation rate of individual assets, thereby reducing asset and product idling. This will in turn help you optimise your resource allocation and deployment, resulting in cost-savings without compromising productivity. These new insights may enable new business models be created.