Monitoring an industrial facilty employing industrial internet of things (IIOT) sensors using a tactical compute application

A method for monitoring operations of an industrial facility, the method comprising:

• providing a gateway device disposed at the industrial facility and operably coupled to sensors disposed at the industrial facility, wherein the gateway device is configured to execute tasks that:
• i) monitor alarms or triggers or other events related to operating conditions of the industrial facility;
• ii) identify a particular alarm or trigger or other event that is activated or set;
• iii) identify at least one risk associated with the particular alarm or trigger or other event that is activated or set;
• and
• iv) dynamically construct a causal network to evaluate the at least one risk, wherein:
• the construction of the causal network involves querying and processing a domain-specific knowledge graph;
• and
• the processing the domain-specific knowledge graph extracts a sub-network from a much larger causal network using do-calculus.

A method for monitoring operations of an industrial facility, the method comprising:

• providing a gateway device disposed at the industrial facility and operably coupled to sensors disposed at the industrial facility, wherein the gateway device is configured to execute tasks that:
• i) monitor alarms or triggers or other events related to operating conditions of the industrial facility;
• ii) identify a particular alarm or trigger or other event that is activated or set;
• iii) identify at least one risk associated with the particular alarm or trigger or other event that is activated or set;
• iv) dynamically construct a causal network to evaluate the at least one risk;
• v) evaluate the causal network and generate a list of questions to evaluate the at least one risk;
• vi) generate or receive a list of actions or indicators corresponding to the questions that can be computed by scarce computational resources of the gateway device based on automated analysis of sensor data generated from the sensors disposed at the industrial facility;
• vii) compute the actions or indicators based on automated analysis of sensor data by the scarce computational resources of the gateway device;
• viii) use the actions or indicators as input to the causal network to evaluate the at least one risk;
• ix) communicate a questionnaire to at least one human expert to obtain additional actions or indicators corresponding to the questions, wherein the additional actions or indicators are provided by the at least one human expert without the gateway device analyzing sensor data generated from the sensors disposed at the industrial facility;
• and
• x) use the additional actions or indicators as input to the causal network to evaluate the at least one risk.