Profiling Context Awareness in Mobile and Cloud Based Engineering Asset Management

This paper presents an analysis of the potential and a methodology for handling context events and adaptations in maintenance services. A significant number of industrial IT systems employ data models and service frameworks whose design specifications where drafted on the basis of functional requirements for non context-aware systems. Such systems were modular in nature but little care was taken for providing data fusion in a context-aware manner. Though system intelligence might have been a feature for a subset of such systems, two major requirements kept implementations away from wider adoption: (i) refactoring and reengineering of the system’s base services (ii) customising and modifying the structure of a data model tightly connected with inter-process organisation. This paper discusses a methodology for injecting industrial asset management systems with modelling semantics and software mechanisms that enable context awareness via portable clients and applicationagnostic data fusion services.