ABSTRACT
Cyber Physical System (CPS) nameplate values change over time due to situation and strain. This chapter describes the future CPS as equipped with special assets named Functional Models to be uploaded to Centralized Support Infrastructure (CSI) for synchronization and data analysis. Functional Models are essentially software routines that are run against data sent by the CPS. In a nutshell, the microservice architecture is the evolution of the classical Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in which the application is seen as a suite of small services, each devoted to a single activity. Big Data technologies are becoming innovation drivers in industry. The CSI is required to handle unprecedented volumes of data generated by the digital representation of the factory in order to keep updated the CPS nameplate information. The speed layer is in charge of processing infinite streams of information. It is the purpose of the Speed Layer to offer a low latency, real-time data processing.
