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maintenance time. It is a low cost,
out-of-the-box solution.
Monitor
The second step was to create a
viewing platform that was
revolutionary in comparison to the
normal control room where the
operators sit physically looking at a
series of monitors.
We have developed a proprietary
application (MOSAICOAPP) that
allows operators (from now on
named followers) to be able to monitor the
system via mobile, no longer requiring
physical presence in the control room.
Figure 8 MOSAICO Digital TWIN
Mobile
Cloud
Above all, it was important to make the data
available within the communication
platform that was being created. This could
be a virtual place available to everybody: the
cloud. The choice to move to the cloud was
absolutely innovative compared to the
existing business models that foresaw the
presence of data on physical servers
inside the company data center.
Employing a mobile device in a control room
of an industrial plant and using software in
the App version instead of the traditional
industrial automation software reserved for
specialized technicians represents a difficult,
evolutionary leap. This choice has allowed a
To educate followers about this
change, I tried to use the new digital
operational tools they apply in their
personal lives already. In this case,
we positioned data into a dedicated
Dropbox account. This choice has
allowed us not to force ourselves to
build a proprietary cloud platform
with all the complications in terms
of costs of development and
Figure 9 MOSAICO App Monitoring Page
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