A Reliability Assessment of an Industrial Communication Protocol on a Windows OS Embedded PC for an Oil Rig Control Application

Abstract

The reliability is an important criterion for the applications. Especially when there are humans involved in activity. There are limited number of works addressing the reliability concerns of a digital industrial plant scenario with machine to machine (M2M) communications. Results on a windows embedded platform are rare as well. In this paper, we investigate the suitability of such devices for presenting the data of a digital oil rig to the humans. There can be two types of reads. A simple one regarding current values of observed variables. Also a period of their occurrences can be recalled, referred to as an Historic read. For the review made by Geological teams for residues of ore, an algorithm can consider both techniques. Our observations indicate: the simple reads are more resilient than the historical ones that represent a data past of a readable variable.