Research on monitoring-object oriented measurement system integration architecture

Distributed measurement systems (DMSs) have become a common practice in many industrial applications. These systems are commonly developed by specific technologies and platforms. This situation brings a lot of difficulties for the seamless integration and unified access of measurement systems. To address this problem, a novel monitoring-object oriented architecture based on web services is proposed, which offers a universal client for accessing different measurement systems and then facilitates system integration under the heterogeneous environment. By extracting the common characters of measurement applications, we first present the whole architecture design and then describe the detailed implementation which includes the deployed services, customizable configurations and component-based system design. In order to validate the feasibility of the proposed architecture, a prototype system of household appliances testing is developed. The results show that the proposed architecture is feasible and effective.