Bluetooth based Sensor Monitoring in Industrial IoT Plants

Internet of Things adoption in traditional and slow changing industrial plants such as power, water, oil-gas and chemical has proven to be beneficial in providing business value by transforming the way data is utilized in decision-making and visualization. Typical industrial IoT use cases involve acquiring data from sensor devices in plant and communicating the same to internet for local or remote monitoring and control. The sensor data acquisition in an industrial plant thus becomes paramount as the same acquired data is used for bringing out the underlying knowledge of system. IoT typically requires a local, low power wireless communication to acquire data from sensor devices and local gateway that is connected to internet for local or remote monitoring and control. This paper describes how Bluetooth low energy (BLE) technology can be used to connect sensor nodes to Internet-based services and applications using gateway in an industrial plant. It also investigates the performance of BLE technology as a local communication for sensor device monitoring.