Design and Implementation of a Novel IoT Architecture for Data Release System Between Multiple Platforms: Case of Smart Offshores

The evolution of automation has reached marine operations in general and offshore operations in particular. Many facilities in these areas use the Internet of Things (IoT) to consolidate processes and improve data release systems. In addition, the IEC60870-5-104 protocol (IEC104) enables remote data release. This paper introduces and develops a novel IoT architecture that enables the continuous acquisition, evaluation, and release of data between platforms. Continuous data release is based on a dynamic configuration (DC) approach using the IEC104 protocol (DC-IEC104). The proposed approach thoroughly analyzes the structural model and communication process and then proposes a set of design tables according to the information object (type and amount) of the data to be released. In the application case, the data of the photoelectric composite submarine cables were successfully released with an average mean square error of 3.78 and an average processing time of 1.083 s. These results have been proven to be better compared to those obtained using three other approaches for data release.