Abstract
Industry 4.0 was publicly introduced in Germany in 2011 and is known as the fourth industrial revolution, whose goal is to improve manufacturing processes and increase the competitiveness of the manufacturing industry. Industry 4.0 uses technological concepts such as Cyber-Physical Systems, Internet of Things and Cloud Computing to create services, reduce costs and increase productivity in industry. This paper aims to explore the use of context-aware applications in Industry 4.0 in order to assist workers in decision making and thus improve the performance of factory production lines. This literature review is part of the project “Continental AA’s Factory of the Future” (Continental FoF) and will integrate a context-aware system in Industry 4.0 of the mentioned company, which is a manufacturer of radio frequency devices for the automotive industry. This systematic literature review identifies, from the researched solutions, the concept of context and context-awareness, the main technologies used in context-aware systems, how context management is performed, as well as the most used integration and communication protocols.
This work was supported by the RD Project “Continental Factory of Future (CONTINENTAL FoF)/POCI-01-0247-FEDER-047512”, financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), through the Program “Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização (POCI)/PORTUGAL 2020”, under the management of AICEP Portugal Global - Trade & Investment Agency. This work also funded by the R &D Project “A-MoVeR–Agenda Mobilizadora para o Desenvolvimento de Produtos e Sistemas Inteligentes de Mobilidade Verde”, financed by POCI European Structural and Investment Funds (FEEI).
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This work was supported by the RD Project “Continental Factory of Future (CONTINENTAL FoF)/POCI-01-0247-FEDER-047512”, financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), through the Program “Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização (POCI)/PORTUGAL 2020”, under the management of AICEP Portugal Global – Trade & Investment Agency.
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Monteiro, P., Lima, C., Pinto, T., Nogueira, P., Reis, A., Filipe, V. (2023). Context-Aware Applications in Industry 4.0: A Systematic Literature Review. In: Mehmood, R., et al. Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Special Sessions I, 20th International Conference. DCAI 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 741. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38318-2_30
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