Social Networking of Instrumentation - a Case Study in Telematics

Abstract

The research work contributes to the design and implementation of the communication part for integrating remote instruments and drives via social networks (SN) into instrumentation communities. It is used the virtual instrumentation (VI) to manage objects that tweet on popular SN platforms applying the concept of the Internet of Things (IoT). Local and remote resource aggregation is based on National Instruments (NI) data acquisition and distribution hardware in a NI software environment. NI LabVIEW-for-Twitter solutions (starting with simple authentication) are extended, integrated with various third party services and validated in a complete remote monitoring proof-of-concept workbench with a closed loop for alarming-compensation. Solutions are extendible to Machine-to-Machine communication (M2M) IoT scenarios for telematics, monitoring or control, and can be connected to intelligent systems based on powerful servers for cloud computing.

Keywords

• application programming interfaces
• computerized instrumentation
• data acquisition
• social network services
• twitter