Model-Based Personalized Visualization System for Monitoring Evolving Industrial Cyber-Physical System

Monitoring Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPSs) is increasingly becoming essential, which requires the development of new approaches to capture data from an ICPS for visualization, automated analyses, decision making, and anomaly detection. Towards this end, first, we present requirements for enabling personalized data visualization for monitoring evolving ICPS during its operation. Such requirements were identified from our experience of designing and developing an industrial Automated Warehouse (AW). Second, the identified requirements were validated with a questionnaire-based survey by soliciting views of industry experts from the Software Monitoring Systems and Data Visualizations domains. Based on the analysis of the survey results, the need of developing personalized ICPS monitoring systems was confirmed as a step forward to enable the efficient detection of anomalies, improvement in productivity, and providing a better overview of the monitored ICPSs. Third, we developed a model-based visualization system (named as PAVS) for monitoring ICPSs, which conforms to the identified requirements, and was validated it with a dataset collected from a real AW developed by our industrial partner: ULMA Handling System, Spain. In the end, we also provide a set of lessons learned when PAVS was transferred to ULMA.