Design and development of Multipurpose Educational and Research Platform (MERP) for learning control & IOT technologies

Vision TN50 “Transformasi Nasional 2050” is encouraging institutions to produce more talent for digitalization and transformation of Industries. This transformation opens a new domain for Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Therefore, students are required to develops their skills and knowledge i...

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Main Authors: Embong, Abd Halim, Akbar, Muhammad Ali, Rashid, Muhammad Mahbubur
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spelling iium-689452019-04-18T07:09:08Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/68945/ Design and development of Multipurpose Educational and Research Platform (MERP) for learning control & IOT technologies Embong, Abd Halim Akbar, Muhammad Ali Rashid, Muhammad Mahbubur TA165 Engineering instruments, meters, etc. Industrial instrumentation TA168 Systems engineering Vision TN50 “Transformasi Nasional 2050” is encouraging institutions to produce more talent for digitalization and transformation of Industries. This transformation opens a new domain for Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Therefore, students are required to develops their skills and knowledge in the field of advance automation and robotics. There are a lot of automation or control labs available in the educational institutions that are not equipped with advance automation which are required for Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. This paper presents the design and development of a multipurpose educational and research platform (MERP) for learning IoT automation technologies. To develop a MERP, four requirements are outlined in this paper; (i) industrial standard controller to be used (ii) integration of the platform with the cloud computing (iii) develop a low-cost platform (iv) suitable for Industrial and Enterprise applications prototyping. To analyse the impact of MERP, students experience is evaluated on this developed platform in International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). The evaluation result shows the enormous improvement in student’s skills in term of learning new control technologies, especially Internet of Things (IoT). The proposed platform leverage students to design, control and develop IoT application that are in line with the industry 4.0. School of Engineering, Taylor's University 2019-04 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/68945/1/68945_Design%20and%20development%20of%20Multipurpose.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/68945/2/68945_Design%20and%20development%20of%20Multipurpose_WOS.pdf Embong, Abd Halim and Akbar, Muhammad Ali and Rashid, Muhammad Mahbubur (2019) Design and development of Multipurpose Educational and Research Platform (MERP) for learning control & IOT technologies. Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (JESTEC), 14 (2). pp. 747-762. ISSN 1823-4690 http://jestec.taylors.edu.my/Vol%2014%20issue%202%20April%202019/14_2_17.pdf
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topic TA165 Engineering instruments, meters, etc. Industrial instrumentation
TA168 Systems engineering
spellingShingle TA165 Engineering instruments, meters, etc. Industrial instrumentation
TA168 Systems engineering
Embong, Abd Halim
Akbar, Muhammad Ali
Rashid, Muhammad Mahbubur
Design and development of Multipurpose Educational and Research Platform (MERP) for learning control & IOT technologies
description Vision TN50 “Transformasi Nasional 2050” is encouraging institutions to produce more talent for digitalization and transformation of Industries. This transformation opens a new domain for Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Therefore, students are required to develops their skills and knowledge in the field of advance automation and robotics. There are a lot of automation or control labs available in the educational institutions that are not equipped with advance automation which are required for Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. This paper presents the design and development of a multipurpose educational and research platform (MERP) for learning IoT automation technologies. To develop a MERP, four requirements are outlined in this paper; (i) industrial standard controller to be used (ii) integration of the platform with the cloud computing (iii) develop a low-cost platform (iv) suitable for Industrial and Enterprise applications prototyping. To analyse the impact of MERP, students experience is evaluated on this developed platform in International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). The evaluation result shows the enormous improvement in student’s skills in term of learning new control technologies, especially Internet of Things (IoT). The proposed platform leverage students to design, control and develop IoT application that are in line with the industry 4.0.
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author Embong, Abd Halim
Akbar, Muhammad Ali
Rashid, Muhammad Mahbubur
author_facet Embong, Abd Halim
Akbar, Muhammad Ali
Rashid, Muhammad Mahbubur
author_sort Embong, Abd Halim
title Design and development of Multipurpose Educational and Research Platform (MERP) for learning control & IOT technologies
title_short Design and development of Multipurpose Educational and Research Platform (MERP) for learning control & IOT technologies
title_full Design and development of Multipurpose Educational and Research Platform (MERP) for learning control & IOT technologies
title_fullStr Design and development of Multipurpose Educational and Research Platform (MERP) for learning control & IOT technologies
title_full_unstemmed Design and development of Multipurpose Educational and Research Platform (MERP) for learning control & IOT technologies
title_sort design and development of multipurpose educational and research platform (merp) for learning control & iot technologies
publisher School of Engineering, Taylor's University
publishDate 2019
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/68945/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/68945/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/68945/1/68945_Design%20and%20development%20of%20Multipurpose.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/68945/2/68945_Design%20and%20development%20of%20Multipurpose_WOS.pdf
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