Enabling automatic event detection for the pipe workshop of the shipyard 4.0

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In the era of Industry 4.0, Navantia is creating a Cyber-Physical System (CPS) for enabling automatic event detection in their pipe workshops. The enhanced identification of the numerous pipes of a shipyard and their traceability, from their origin and through their life-cycle, increase productive capacity and efficiency in the processes. The CPS proposed is able to transmit signals periodically, providing a pipe monitoring platform to leverage safety and strategic benefits, and giving support for emerging and innovative applications in process planning. This paper presents the design and implementation of an active UHF Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) real-time monitoring pipe system that makes use of fingerprinting and Received Signal Strength (RSS) stabilization techniques (Kalman filtering and Single-input Multiple-output (SIMO) techniques). Furthermore, it shows a first glimpse of the designed display module and how significant events in the pipe workshop are automatically detected and presented to the operators.