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Tackling Critical Challenges towards Efficient CyberPhysical Components & Services Interconnection: The ATLAS CPS Platform Approach

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Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) comprise a rapidly expanding research domain incorporating various diverse ICT aspects. Consequently, such systems are characterized by high degree of heterogeneity regarding communication, hardware and software technologies. Additionally, a high number of challenges must be tackled before such horizontal architectures can yield useful services, that can be exploited by todays and future consumer electronics and respective vertical domains. Aiming to address such objectives, this paper proposes a holistic end-to-end CPS architecture based on message passing communication technologies able to support the inherent complexity of respective deployments spanning several areas of applied industrial research and development. In this context, this paper aims to serve as a roadmap on how existing, prominent technologies from different domains can be effectively integrated and address all changes while be applied in diverse application demands. This is achieved by analytically presenting the proposed ATLAS infrastructure emphasizing on integration of prominent consumer electronics technologies. Finally, the deployment of the proposed solution in different verticals is presented, highlighting i) the applicability of the system and ii) a resource conservative behavior advocating the integration with nowadays COTS embedded systems.

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Antonopoulos, C.P., Antonopoulos, K., Panagiotou, C. et al. Tackling Critical Challenges towards Efficient CyberPhysical Components & Services Interconnection: The ATLAS CPS Platform Approach. J Sign Process Syst 91, 1273–1281 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11265-018-1436-x

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