A system for monitoring industrial processes using an upgradeable set of isofunctional smart nodes, for a distributed mesh network, each node of said upgradeable set of isofunctional smart nodes comprising a computer hardware architecture and a software stack, said system comprising:
- process monitoring sensors or process monitoring programmable controllers for monitoring a process or actuators for data acquisition of data, the data being injected into a data lake via the distributed mesh network,
- a central platform for mass data management allowing management and storage of the data lake,
- wherein said each node receives an execution order from a program hosted by another node of said upgradeable set of isofunctional smart nodes of the distributed mesh network, said program associating, with a communication module of said each node, an identifier specific to the node and a neighborhood identifier for implementing by execution on the computer hardware architecture of said each node, a set of functionalities comprising at least one functionality of functionalities of the software stack comprising:
- diffusion, in a form of time series, of the data collected or calculated by the upgradeable set of isofunctional smart nodes by combining two data diffusion modes:
- a systematic data diffusion mode wherein the data are diffused with a given resolution or criterion and to a given depth in the distributed mesh network, and an opportunistic diffusion mode wherein at least one neighboring node of said another node of said upgradeable set of isofunctional smart nodes concerned by an initial data request, autonomously records information or the data passing therethrough in a memory in order to rebroadcast said data passing therethrough or the information when a similar request to the initial data request is repeated;
- storing, in addition to the data from the process monitoring sensors or actuators or process monitoring programmable controllers of the industrial processes, a field or attribute indicating that the at least one neighboring node that is concerned is a parent of an object, referred to as a parent node;
- connecting said central platform to any isofunctional smart node of the distributed mesh network, by sending the identifier of the node to be modified, said node being remotely and dynamically modified even if a user is connected to a node of the upgradeable set of isofunctional smart nodes that is not the parent node of the object that is to be modified;
- wherein said each node comprises at least one software layer for storing and managing the object, for maintaining a current status of the object and using a stored list of neighborhoods of the upgradeable set of isofunctional smart nodes to which the upgradeable set of isofunctional smart nodes is connected for informing each neighboring node of a possible change of status of the object.