Manufacturing Industry Automation Using IoT Devices
An industry-funded project to automate some of their existing workflows using IoT devices alongside Big Data Analysis.
This was an industry consultation project that focused on the utilization of IoT components to harmonize the various manufacturing industry-grade equipments in terms of data collection, recipe management and big data analysis to provide real-time status update to their various stakeholders. One particular emphasis of this project was the usage of SECS/GEM protocol to communicate to some of their modern equipments and retrofit older equipments with capabilities of communicating with the centralized server using SECS/GEM as well.
Project Duration: 01/05/2017-01/02/2018
Project Members:
- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Selvakumar Manickam (PI)
- Dr. Shankar Karuppayah
Shankar Karuppayah is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director at the Cybersecurity Research Centre (CYRES), Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), which he joined as Senior Lecturer in 2016. He is also the Founder & CEO of BitRanger Sdn. Bhd., a USM cybersecurity spin-off established in October 2023 that translates research and innovation from USM/CYRES into operational cybersecurity capabilities, including OwlSight, an outsourced Security Operations Centre platform.
He obtained his B.Sc (HONS) Computer Science from Universiti Sains Malaysia in 2009 and his M.Sc. Software Systems Engineering from King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok (KMUTNB) in 2011. In 2016, Shankar obtained his PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) from TU Darmstadt, where his research on advanced techniques for monitoring peer-to-peer botnets later formed the basis of his Springer book, Advanced Monitoring in P2P Botnets: A Dual Perspective.
His research has since expanded from P2P botnet monitoring and malware analysis into broader areas including intrusion detection, cyber threat intelligence, machine learning for cybersecurity, IoT and cyber-physical security, network security monitoring, and the translation of cybersecurity research into deployable, operational technologies.