Cyber-physical Systems

10Applications

This chapter addresses different cyber‐physical systems (CPSs) enabled by the information and communication technologies (ICTs) presented in the previous chapters. The idea is to employ the concepts presented so far in order to analyze several examples of already existing applications related to industrial plants, residential energy management, surveillance, and transportation. The focus here will be on the CPS itself without considering aspects that are beyond the technology, such as governance models and social impacts, which will be discussed in Chapter 11. Specifically, the following applications will be covered: (i) fault detection in the Tennessee Eastman Process (TEP) [1], (ii) coordination of actions in demand‐side management actions in electricity grids [2], (iii) contention of epidemics [3], and (iv) driving support mobile applications [4]. The first two will be dealt with in more detail, while the other two will be part of exercises.

10.1 Introduction

Back in Chapter 1, it was argued that the deployment of CPSs does not require a theory specially constructed to apprehend their particularities. After a long tour covering basic concepts (Chapters 2–6), the definition of the three layers of CPSs (Chapters 7 and 8) and key enabling ICTs (Chapter 9), actual real‐world realizations of CPSs related to specific applications will be presented here. The approach taken considers a generalization of the framework introduced in [1, 5], where seven questions are ...