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Hao Wu, Xianglong Ma, Yuxin Sun, Jing Lin, Jiangang Ji
Metrological Data Application Solutions in the Field of Marine Power

This paper addresses critical metrological challenges in marine power systems—including measurement deficiencies for 23 key parameters, digital fragmentation hindering cross-system data integration, and inconsistent standardization across lifecycle phases. This paper proposes a Cloud-Edge-Device Integrated Architecture with five functional strata: the Data Layer consolidating laboratory/vessel datasets, the Perception Layer enabling edge-computing acquisition via adaptive tools, the Platform Layer standardizing metadata through API services, and the Application Layer deploying predictive maintenance and lifecycle simulation. This framework establishes closed-loop data management for 53 critical parameters, resolving "unmeasurable/inaccurate/incomplete" data issues while implementing robust security via national encryption algorithms, RBAC/ABAC access controls, and blockchain-anchored trusted timestamps. Implementation demonstrates reliability improvement and accelerated design iteration, providing end-to-end metrological support compliant with international maritime standards.


Khaled M. Ahmed, Ali Q. Alanbari, Abdullah S. Alosaimi
A Python-based graphical uncertainty calculator with optimal propagation of uncertainty and Monte-Carlo evaluation possibility

A web-based uncertainty calculator for metrology professionals is presented in this paper. The system incorporates a Monte Carlo (MC) engine in accordance with GUM Supplement 1 and optimal first-order propagation that complies with the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM). A case study, algorithms, and architecture are described in detail. The findings demonstrate enhanced transparency, clear report generation (in PNG/PDF format) suitable for ISO/IEC 17025 documentation, and strong agreement between analytical propagation and MC evaluation. The benefits of integrating statistical simulation and rigorous analytical propagation in an intuitive web-based platform are emphasized. Users can view the installed script file and make changes to continuously improve its functionality using the editor-like text window that outputs the calculation results.


Khaled M. Ahmed, Mohammad D. Almelfi
Machine-readable data for measurements of total luminous flux using goniophotometer: a step toward digitalized metrology

The transition to digital metrology requires structured and machine-readable data for traceable measurement systems. This article presents a methodology for developing machine-readable data formats IES/LDT for total luminous flux measurements from Type C goniophotometers. A proposed data model aligns with digital calibration certificate (DCC) projects, enabling improved traceability, automation, and interoperability. IES (Illuminating Engineering Society) files are ASCII text files that contain photometric data for lighting fixtures. They are machine-readable and contain detailed information about how light is distributed from a fixture, including luminous intensity, distribution angles, and other relevant information. Lighting design tools and rendering software can use this information to accurately simulate how a fixture would behave in a virtual environment. An actual case study from an SASO-NMCC (National Metrology Institute of Saudi Arabia) illustrates how these methods enhance calibration and function with smart lighting systems.

Marian-Andrei Vieru, Cristian-Gyözö Haba
Characterization of the lighting system of hospital rooms

Artificial lighting in the hospital areas is equally essential for medical staff, patients, and their visitors. Adequate lighting can have beneficial effects on human health by contributing to the patient’s recovery process and also increasing the performance and efficiency of medical staff. In contrast, inappropriate lighting generates harmful effects on health and well-being. Thus, parameters such as luminous intensity, luminance, luminous flux, and illuminance provide information regarding the lighting system. Therefore, determining these parameters is a key factor in establishing and determining possible negative effects as a result of prolonged exposure to artificial light. In this context, a systematic study was carried out to determine the correlated color temperature, light intensity and UV index of artificial light from three hospital areas, including waiting areas, patient ward rooms, intensive care units, and operating rooms, and to evaluate the quality of the lighting system.

Federico Fina, Massimo Piotto, Simone Contardi, Fabio Leccese
Soil Digitalization Using Micro-Sensors

In this paper, we propose a method of data collection from different sensors through a software developed by Sensichips srl, SLM-Studio, which can then be compared with MLP machine learning models trained through training data available on the Sensichips website. The measurements performed by the SCW water sensors, the SCA air sensors and the SCP multispectral sensor can be applied in different fields of precision agriculture ranging from irrigation water monitoring to the health status of plants and soils up to the monitoring of the chemical-physical conditions of the air.

Enrico Picariello, Francesco Picariello, Ioan Tudosa
Preliminary Experimental Assessment of an IoT-Based Fatigue Monitoring System for Industrial Operators

Operators’ well-being is essential to implement the Industry 5.0 framework. To this end, this paper presents the first experimental results of a wearable IoT system for monitoring the muscle fatigue of operators on assembly lines. The system is completely modular and composed of 4 subsystems: i) a system for the acquisition of physiological signals, an IMU-based system for the acquisition of inertial data, an RFID glove for tag recognition, and an Indoor Positioning System for the evaluation of operators’ movement. For each task, operators can express a fatigue rating from 1 to 5, and a bagged decision tree classifier was used for the classification of muscle fatigue. From the results obtained, it is possible to note that the model can predict muscle fatigue with an accuracy higher than 90%.

Cai Qingwei, Francesco Pilati, Francesca Calabrese, Matteo Zendri
Designing a Fatigue Monitoring Sensor System with Industry 5.0 principles

In the Industry 4.0 era, the focus has been on replacing human operators with industrial robots to reduce labors costs. However, it has led to various social and environmental challenges. Industry 5.0 aims to enhance human-robot collaboration (HRC) in intelligent manufacturing environments, promoting both efficiency and flexibility while prioritizing human operators’ health and well-being. This study reconfigures a new HRC systems, optimizes layout, and introduces a new Internet of Things (IoT) structure to monitor human-centric manufacturing processes. By utilizing medical-grade sensors for real-time collection of physiological data, the system ensures privacy compliance. The collected data are input into a artificial intelligence algorithm to achieve two main objectives: evaluating operator’s health levels and identifying the most efficient movement patterns during the manufacturing process. This research has significant implications for enhancing operator health and well-being in industrial settings.

Nina Perić, Moulham Alsuleman, João Gregório, Paul Duncan, Michael Chrubasik
Supporting Medicines Manufacturing through Semantic Technologies

Pharmaceutical manufacturing involves complex, highly regulated processes that generate large volumes of heterogenous data. While highly valuable, this data is often siloed across systems and not easily interoperable, limiting its useability for provenance, advanced analytics and AI as well as automated decision-making processes. This paper presents a semantic technology driven use case to address these issues through the integration of a pharma-based digital architecture with established domain ontologies to support intuitive, semantically rich queries over manufacturing data. The work presented lays the structural groundwork to integrate sensor and event-based observations, linking them to higher-level domain structures in the future using ontologies such as SSN and the Industrial Ontologies Foundry ontology stack, a key requirement for a fully digitalised, interoperable and linked industrial workflow promoting industry 4.0 principles.

Nicola Zingirian, Marco Profeti, Federico Botti
Single-Device Integration of Legal Metrology and Third-Party Software via Virtualization

Integrating process-support functionalities within legal for trade-certified metering heads is a significant challenge in the digital transformation of industrial metering. In this context, we present a virtualized software architecture successfully implemented on the TEX® electronic metering head by IDEX/Sampi S.p.A., a commercially available, legally certified metrological device. The resulting system includes a host machine running legal metrology software and a virtualized guest machine managing auxiliary functions, which may be developed by third-party integrators. The guest handles the display, keypad, and I/O ports when no measurement is in progress. During measurement, the legal metrology software takes preemptive control to ensure legally relevant pulse counting, visualization of metrological data, printouts via sealed printers, and data storage in a database with read-only access for the guest system. This approach enables software extensibility without requiring frequent re-certifications while maintaining regulatory compliance, data integrity, and system flexibility. The proposed solution advances modern industrial metering, as demonstrated in a real-world use case.

Martin Koval, Gertjan Kok, Maximilian Gruber, Shahin Tabandeh, Martin Staněk
Infrastructure requirements for metrological distributed sensor networks

Distributed sensor networks (DSNs) are increasingly being deployed in various systems, indicating a more active implementation of digitalisation in the field of metrology. DSNs bring a wide range of benefits in the management of processes, where we are now looking not only at real-time monitoring, but also at advanced process optimization based on efficiently acquired data, support in the creation of digital twins, the prediction of future states such as calibration or service maintenance, the usage of artificial intelligence, and much more. For DSNs to operate efficiently and reliably, it is essential to properly establish the network infrastructure and identify the associated requirements at the design phase, including metrological aspects. This paper proposes a structured set of infrastructure requirements and metrological design guidelines that enable long-term reliability, traceability, and data quality in DSNs, and discusses practical approaches to sensor architecture, network topology, calibration strategies, and QA/QC (Quality Assurance/ Quality Control) planning tailored to metrological applications.

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