Pre-Integrated Architectures for sustainable complex Cyber-Physical Systems

The paradigm of Cyber-Physical Systems is spreading widely across several industrial domains such as Automotive, Construction, Energy, Health, Manufacturing, Smart Cities. But the system architectures, processes and operations related to these Cyber-Physical Systems are reaching a high level of global complexity, which is difficult to sustain by the different stakeholders. In addition, new ambitious constraints are being added to the list of requirements that these Cyber-Physical Systems must comply with.The purpose of this paper is to propose the concept of pre-integrated architectures as solutions to improve the development and operational processes of these complex Cyber-Physical Systems. An outlook of the practical implementations and impacts in four industrial domains will be provided, in relationship with the developments performed in the CPS4EU project.

1. Introduction

As mentioned in the Multi-Annual Strategic Plan of the ECSEL Joint Undertaking [1], "the potential of the upcoming industrial era 4.0 is based on the combination of two novel technologies, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and the Internet of Things".