Ontology Mapping-Based Semantic Reasoning with OPC UA for Heterogeneous Industrial Devices

Jing Bi, Rina Wu, Haitao Yuan, Ziqi Wang, Jia Zhang, Meng Chu Zhou

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Abstract

The advent of smart manufacturing in Industry 4.0 signifies the arrival of the era of connections. As an excellent communication protocol, Object linking and embedding for Process Control Unified Architecture (OPC UA) can address most semantic heterogeneity issues. However, its semantics are not formally defined at the application layer. To address the information silo problem caused by semantic heterogeneity, a method named Querying of Ontology Mapping-based OPC UA (QOMOU) is proposed. It extracts the information models of OPC UA servers into resource description framework triples, utilizes web ontology language for semantic enrichment and inference, and employs a semantic similarity model for event ontology mapping to improve query efficiency. The method's effectiveness is validated through functional queries using the SPARQL protocol in Apache Jena. The query efficiency is 5% higher on average compared to both structured query and extensible markup languages. Moreover, by employing a keyword-matching algorithm, the query accuracy of the existing heterogeneous data integration scheme is improved by 4% on average. This enhancement can boost the operational efficiency of Internet of Things systems based on the OPC UA architecture.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2024 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2024 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages4674-4679
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781665410205
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024
Event2024 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2024 - Kuching, Malaysia
Duration: Oct 6 2024Oct 10 2024

Publication series

NameConference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
ISSN (Print)1062-922X

Conference

Conference2024 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2024
Country/TerritoryMalaysia
CityKuching
Period10/6/2410/10/24

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Keywords

  • ontology
  • OPC UA
  • semantic heterogeneity
  • semantic similarity
  • syntactic interoperability

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