IoT Retrofitting Approach for the Food Industry

Industrial food production is one of the biggest businesses that supplies most of the food consumed by the world. Despite being one of the largest industries, the lack of appropriate control and quality due to inefficient food management results in a lot of waste and cost ineffectiveness. With the emergence of Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0, the food industry can be benefited by adapting to these concepts and enhance the desirable quality of the products. In this paper, an advanced quality check method has been proposed by identifying influencing process parameters and proposes a retrofitting architecture for existing machines by implementing a hardware device capable of collecting vast amount of process data and integrating them with a cloud platform for further analysis.