The Project

Traceable calibrations, harmonised treatment of measurement uncertainties, and industrial standards and guidelines, are the major components of a comprehensive metrological infrastructure that has enabled globalised manufacturing and international trade. Digitalisation and data science are rapidly changing almost all aspects of this landscape: e.g. sensors are becoming smart, large networks of sensors are being used together with ML algorithms to make automated decisions and manage production processes. The combination of these technological elements constitutes the FoF, a paradigm that is evolving rapidly worldwide.

The Met4FoF project addresses the resulting challenges with the following objectives:

  • To develop calibration methods for industrial sensors of dynamic measurements such as acceleration, force and pressure with digital data output (data streams) and internal digital pre-processing, including the extrapolation of the measurement uncertainty from individually calibrated sensors to other individuals of the same type by means of co-calibration and statistical modelling.
  • To develop and demonstrate methods enabling digital sensors to provide uncertainty and/or data quality information together with the measurement data.
  • To develop a cost-efficient in-situ calibration framework for MEMS sensors measuring ambient temperature for their integration into an industrial sensor network with metrological quality infrastructure.
  • To develop and assess data aggregation methods for industrial sensor networks based on machine learning and efficient software architectures, addressing synchronisation of measurements, making use of redundancies of measurements, taking into account uncertainty from calibration and network communication issues, including strategies for balancing cost versus uncertainty and explore methods to identify the measurement coverage and accuracy required for process output targets.