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 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING TRANSACTIONS  
 

VOL. 66, 2018 

A publication of 

 

The Italian Association 
of Chemical Engineering 
Online at www.aidic.it/cet 

Guest Editors: Songying Zhao, Yougang Sun, Ye Zhou 
Copyright © 2018, AIDIC Servizi S.r.l. 

ISBN 978-88-95608-63-1; ISSN 2283-9216 

Design of the Monitoring System of Chemical Industry 

Production Based on Internet of Things 

Jianwei Chai, Ping Liang, Meiling Yang 

Langfang Yanjing College of Vocational and Technical, Hebei 065200, China 

jianweichai66574@126.com 

The objective of the thesis is to study and discuss the design plan of the monitoring system of chemical 

industry production. The thesis introduces the key technology involved in the monitoring system of chemical 

industry production, and makes improvement through combining with the technical proposal of Internet of 

Things, and divides main function modules. The thesis builds the system with the commanding and monitoring 

functions, and makes improvement based on the practical work of chemical industry production.The chemical 

industry production under the functional module of Internet of Things can continuously guarantee the 

completeness of functions, which also provides technical support for the production in the future. 

1. Introduction 

The modernized chemical enterprises pay more and more attention to the safety of people and equipment, in 

addition to some precautionary measures for production technology, the monitoring system gradually 

becomes a powerful assistant management plan, the new technology emerged with the rapid development of 

information also changes traditional chemical industry production mode. The construction of chemical industry 

park is the product that the country coordinates and optimizes industrial resource and plans industry structure 

reasonably, and meanwhile, the industrial pollution is also the major factor and the source of environmental 

influence. Especially in chemical industry production, due to the special nature of the industry, it is very easy 

to have safety accidents during production process. Particularly, plenty of the dangerous chemicals are piled 

up in chemical enterprises, which exists a certain risk. Therefore, the thesis designs the monitoring system 

based on the technology of Internet of Things, which eliminates safety accidents that may appear in its infancy 

according to data mining and analysis, and provides professional and standardized technical support for safe 

production. And during the research process of the monitoring system, it needs not only to consider the design 

of system functions, but also to combine with practical conditions to analyze various factors of the costs and 

prevent the occurrence of major accidents. The monitoring system after completion will be an integrated 

remote-network information management platform that is convenient for upgrade, extension and management, 

can realize the overall control of the production process and meet the technical requirements of the 

modernized chemical enterprises for production. 

2. Literature review 

The concept of the Internet of things was first proposed by Professor KevinAsh-ton of the Massachusetts 

Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States in 1991. Then, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 

the United States established "Auto-ID" and proposed that "all things can be interconnected through the 

network", and the basic meaning of the Internet of things was clarified: that is, through the radio frequency 

identification (RFID), infrared sensor, global positioning system, laser scanner, gas sensor and so on 

information sensing equipment, to connect any items with the Internet for information exchange and 

communication, so as to realize intelligent identification, positioning, tracking, monitoring and management. 

However, with the development of science and technology, such as the development of sensor technology, 

information processing technology, network communication technology and computer technology, and the 

continuous integration of various information technologies, Liu and others believed that the meaning of the 

                                

 
 

 

 
   

                                                  
DOI: 10.3303/CET1866163 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Please cite this article as: Chai J., Liang P., Yang M., 2018, Design of the monitoring system of chemical industry production based on 
internet of things, Chemical Engineering Transactions, 66, 973-978  DOI:10.3303/CET1866163   

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Internet of things has changed greatly. According to the definition of the Internet of things school enterprise 

alliance on the Internet of things in China, at present, the combination of almost all technology with computer 

and Internet technology can realize the mutual communication between objects and can be incorporated into 

the category of the Internet of things (Liu et al., 2014). The development of the Internet of things is in the 

beginning stage, but it is becoming more and more important in the world. It is called the third wave of the 

world information industry after the computer and the Internet. Many countries in the world have made a lot of 

research and application in the Internet of things. The Auto-ID center of the United States is the leader of the 

research on the technology of the Internet of things. The main purpose of the laboratory done by Skowron is to 

reduce the cost of RFID tags and readers; and to design and establish a global infrastructure to effectively 

implement the Electronic Product Code (EPC) network (Skowron et al., 2016). 

The Internet of things is widely used in many fields, such as intelligent transportation, environmental protection, 

agricultural environment monitoring, public safety, industrial monitoring, safe home, medical care, and so on. 

Zhang and others of Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics set up a monitoring platform based on 

the Internet of things for the noise monitoring at the airport (Zhang et al., 2014). The scholars of the Huazhong 

University of Science and Technology designed the remote monitoring system for the monitoring of the 

elevator status (Li et al., 2015). The researcher Zou of the Wuhan University of Technology built the remote 

monitoring system based on the Internet of things in the tunnel (Zou, 2016). The remote monitoring system 

can monitor vehicle speed, wind speed, vehicle information and so on. The Research Institute of Zhejiang 

University did a research on the intelligent production of agriculture. Fang and so on designed a hydroponic 

flower intelligent production system based on the Internet of things, which played an active role in production 

(Fang et al., 2016). For the safety production of coal mine, in the age of Internet of things, the personnel, 

machinery, equipment and infrastructure in the complex environment of the coal mine can be implemented in 

a more real-time and effective cooperative management and control through the Internet of things. Miao and 

Huo found that the mine Internet of things is to realize the visualization, digitalization and intelligence of the 

whole coal mine, digitize the comprehensive information of the production process, safety management and 

mine construction, and realize the comprehensive perception and dynamic cooperative control of the mine 

safety production process (Miao and Huo, 2015). Some scholars, Zhang and others thought that the important 

theory and key technology of the coal mine IOT system were the basis of remote control, emergency rescue 

and safety monitoring under the complex environment of coal mine. It was one of the important contents of the 

research of digital mine and underground unmanned mining (Zhang et al., 2015). In order to adapt to the 

widespread perception and mass information processing of the network of transmission and transformation 

equipment, Hu Zhiyuan proposed a communication network structure and implementation scheme suitable for 

the online monitoring and equipment asset management system of the power transmission and transformation 

equipment. The proposed flat mesh network structure supports the scattered and distributed processing of the 

collection points of the field information. In the network structure, the function entity of the aggregation layer is 

added to realize the effective control and management of the communication equipment and communication 

flow of the Internet of things. And the cable and wireless dual channel heterogeneous networking technology 

is used in the implementation scheme of the network to enhance the fault tolerance of the system. In order to 

improve the production efficiency of farmland grain crops, Zhang Jie and other scholars designed and 

constructed a remote monitoring system of agricultural environment based on the Internet of things, and briefly 

introduced the overall structure of the system and the design of the software and hardware. The system uses 

sensors to collect environmental information such as high temperature and humidity, solar radiation, rainfall 

and soil temperature and humidity. The data are processed and analyzed through the data service center, and 

the remote monitoring of agricultural environmental information is completed with the GPRS network. The 

experiment proves that the system can realize the remote monitoring function of farmland environment and 

production site, and is conducive to improving the level of agricultural fine management. The application of 

Internet of things in chemical enterprises requires the establishment of a comprehensive information 

management platform for enterprise production. The data collected automatically by sensors, RFID tags, 

cameras, and other sensing devices are transmitted to the platform through the network. The mechanical 

operation, gas, dust and other environmental parameters in each workshop, the daily consumption of material 

and material, the rectification of the hidden trouble in the field, the transportation of the products, and all kinds 

of daily tables are displayed on the monitor screen dynamically and in real time. At the same time, through 

mobile communication network, different data information is pushed to the handheld terminal of the relevant 

personnel. In addition, the use of Internet of things technology can also realize the functions of automatic 

statistics of raw material consumption, energy consumption self-energy detection, production equipment 

status detection and fault call, personnel identification and attendance management, so as to make the 

production process of chemical enterprises truly automatic and intelligent. In short, the monitoring application 

of the Internet of things has been around people, and has changed people's habits without knowing it. 

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To sum up, the applications of these applications in various fields have improved the automation level and 

management efficiency of operation management to a certain extent. However, there are limited functions of 

these systems, and the research on monitoring systems related to chemical enterprises is not much. 

Therefore, based on the above research situation, in view of the problem, this paper introduces a kind of 

chemical production monitoring and warning and emergency response system based on the Internet of things 

technology. In the chemical enterprise, a series of functions Internet of things system, such as equipment 

state monitoring, data interconnection and intercommunication and automatic analysis, accident rapid warning 

and emergency intelligent decision making are set up in chemical enterprises. The new system uses the 

technology of Internet of things to improve the automation management level of the enterprise, thus making 

the whole chemical enterprise become a comprehensive network management system which integrates 

security, production, monitoring and early warning. The application of Internet of things technology makes 

enterprise production safety higher, and enterprise management is more time-saving, labor-saving and 

intelligent. 

3. Methods 

3.1 Technical proposal 

In Internet of Things, different equipment and intelligent objects are included in the extendable Internet and 

becomes addressable and well-determined. During the process the innovation of information and 

communication technology and economic development, one of key points has been remarkably transferred to 

the technology related to Internet of Things, which is widely considered as one of the most important 

infrastructures and one of the promotion and commitment strategies in the future. Its main purpose is to 

realize the interaction and integration of physical world and network space. The basic framework is as shown 

in Figure 1 as follows: 

Table 1: Data conversation 

Steps Phase Data type 

1 The data source Original data 

2 Data collection and registration Unstructured data 

3 The data processing Structured data 

4 The data analysis Processed data 

5 Data transfer Visual data 

6 Consumers Information 

 

Such a framework shall support the whole life cycle of data of Internet of Things, and explore the function that 

is able to realize large-scale data storage or preservation, aggregation and output in a long time. It is important 

that these infrastructures must ensure the security of data (completeness, confidentiality, availability and 

accountability system) and the protection of data ownership. And meanwhile, the big data processing needs 

powerful computing capability; there shall be executable data set strategies for event handling or in 

compliance with other demands on the trusted system. 

3.2 System design plan 

The plan must follow the regional safety monitoring and emergency integration management idea and be 

close to practical application demand of small and medium-size chemical industry parks, in order to realize the 

information service platform integrated with the enterprise environment monitoring and early warning and the 

emergency commanding management, comprehensively utilize modern and mainstream technology of 

Internet of Things, establish the environmental monitoring system for chemical industry parks, and then 

strengthen the dynamic supervising and managing capability of chemical industry parks, avoid the deficiencies 

of traditional manpower prevention and the delayed warning condition caused thereby, and improve the early 

warning and emergency rescue response efficiency for the accidents in the chemical industry parks. The 

specific flow process is as shown in Figure 1. 

 

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Figure 1:  

The environmental monitoring system designed and established in the system strengthens the regulation in 

advance and follow-up tracking management functions of the safety, health and environment protection of the 

enterprises, and combines the safety, environment and health management together, and makes the safety 

and environmental protection work of enterprises more standardized and scientific, carries out the daily 

activities, including classification, supervision for source of danger and safety inspection, and timely masters 

and implements the targeted guidance. This system is designed to conform to laws and regulations and 

supervision requirements on health, safety and environment, and to provide follow-up guarantee for the 

general policy and the implementation of specific objectives of enterprises, and also uses network storage 

array to save the production data and historical data. As the network storage is adopted with the mode of disk 

array, its security and reliability are higher than the storage method of common server, reduced the influence 

caused by hardware fault. When the master server of real-time database or the server of relational database 

breaks down, the configuration information and historical data will not be lost. The logical structure is as 

shown in Figure 2 as follows: 

 

Figure 2: The logical structure of the data integration layer 

The main function of the transmission layer is to realize data communication between the sensing layer and 

the application layer. The data transmission layer of the monitoring and emergency system of the chemical 

industrial park is composed of wired and wireless networks. By making full use of the advantages of wired and 

wireless transmission, the two are combined to carry out reliable transmission of environmental monitoring 

data collected by various sensors and monitor terminals. In order to ensure the stability, reliability and 

flexibility of the communication and transmission network in the large-scale monitoring and monitoring system 

of the chemical industrial park at the present stage, it is suitable to adopt the strategy of wired transmission 

and supplemented by wireless transmission. With the development of wireless communication technology, the 

wireless communication technology is expected to be used in the chemical industry park to replace the partial 

transmission task of the wired communication relying on the fieldbus and the optical fiber network. The wired 

main communication network composed of fieldbus and optical fiber can realize long distance data 

transmission from field monitoring to remote monitoring. Due to the large number of nodes, mobility and 

extensibility of outdoor wireless sensor monitoring system, the wireless sensor network is chosen to realize 

data transmission. The system has two subsystems: the integrated environmental database management 

subsystem and the emergency command subsystem. The environment integrated database management 

subsystem includes hazard management, hidden trouble management, accident and incident management. 

The database design of the system includes two types of databases: geospatial database and safety 

production information database. They are shown in Figure 3 and Figure 4 respectively. 

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Figure 3: Environmental integrated management subsystem 

 

Figure 4: Emergency command subsystem 

4. Results and discussion 

The database of emergency system is mainly composed of the spatial database, the safety production 

management database and the emergency rescue resource information database. In the design of the 

database of the safety production business management, the Oracle relational database is used to access the 

data in the basic attribute database of the hazard source, including the real-time monitoring data of 

environmental risk sources, risk sources and hazard sources, basic information of plant areas, and basic 

information of risk materials in each plant area. Management information database includes user rights data, 

user basic information data and other information. The specific architecture is shown in Figure 5. 

 

Figure 5: Space and data warehouse system technology frame 

 

On the basis of economic economy, it is necessary to build the infrastructure according to the existing 

resources, purchase and deploy missing parts to reduce cost and repeat waste. In the investigation, it is found 

that the enterprise has built DCS (decentralized control system) system, part of the video monitoring system 

and the whole-plant-covered network system. However, it lacks the dangerous chemicals SIS system (Safety 

interlocking System), the various sensors and air pollution factor detector for monitoring the environment. Due 

to the great impact of the lack of part of the facilities on the realization of the functions of the environmental 

monitoring emergency system, it is recommended to purchase the relevant components and deploy and 

implement the specific environment to be detected in order to get the real-time data and the surrounding 

environment of the risk source, and transmit the monitoring data to the enterprise HSE server so as to realize 

the real-time monitoring and early warning of risk sources  

Real-time data transmission must ensure the security of transmission information. In this system, data 

transmission is considered to carry out on the basis of the original network system. Under the premise of 

security, the virtual private network (VPN) is used to establish a trusted security data connection in the 

network between the various parts of the factory. Through the network security technology such as VPN 

tunnel technology architecture and encryption technology, it must ensure that data transmission is not stolen. 

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Even if the content of data packet transmission cannot be read after interception, it must ensure the security of 

data transmission. A large number of video data transmissions will take up a lot of network transmission 

resources, and the message subscription mode is used, so video transmission and video display will be 

carried out when there is a  

With the idea of modularization and structured design, the architecture of ASP.NET is used to structure the 

whole system. The system adopts the hierarchical structure, and transmits and processes data according to 

UI presentation layer > BLL layer > DAL layer > MODEL layer. The data access layer (DAL) is used to operate 

the database. In order to reduce the workload, we can use OracleHelper to add, delete, revise and review the 

database. In this way, UI presentation layer is only responsible for ASP page representation and it is not used 

to operate the database. The system code is layered according to the process of request processing, so that 

the division of labor can be clear and the modification will be very easy. Furthermore, it can improve the use of 

code and reduce the coupling.  

For the security of the whole system, the login interface is designed. When entering the system, the operator 

needs to verify the identity information and enter user name and password to verify it. In order to ensure the 

security of the system, the login password is set up, and user permissions are designed. The access to 

different pages by different roles implements the setting of different functional permissions. The system main 

page includes: The system's functional menu, hidden information, and related accident information are 

displayed and processed to support a variety of data types, take advantage of the existing things in the 

environment, supports NoSQL and other new forms of accessing data to overcome low latency, provide cheap 

storage, and carry out cloud deployment and integration. 

5. Conclusions 

Safety and environmental protection are very important work contents for chemical production enterprises, so 

it is necessary to establish and perfect scientific responsibility system for production safety and environmental 

protection responsibility. In this paper, a comprehensive monitoring and management system is built for the 

whole process of chemical production, and it aims to improve the security supervision ability, predict the safety 

accidents and realize full coverage of the functions. The overall supervision system based on the 

environmental comprehensive management system and the emergency command system is constructed, 

including the hidden danger processing, the risk source discrimination, the auxiliary decision-making module, 

etc. Moreover, the wireless sensor network is designed to extend the service cycle in combination with the 

actual environment of the enterprise. In the data design, in addition to designing the traditional relational 

database, the spatial database is designed in order to make the environmental monitoring emergency 

information in the chemical park can be displayed on the electronic map intuitively. In addition, there are early 

warning plans for emergencies in the emergency system, and this provides an important theoretical basis for 

decision-making. With China's further emphasis on chemical production, the system will continue to be 

perfected and optimized, and its overall function will be further improved. 

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