Performance Analysis of a Proposed Architecture for Remote Construction Machines Diagnostics

The vehicle industry manufacturer is showing an increased interest in remote diagnostics by improving customer relationship management and commercial interest. The special nature of construction machines fact that architectures and applications proposed for vehicular communication are not optimized for these types of vehicles. This paper proposes a new remote diagnostic architecture based on IEEE 802.11n for construction machines communication to the infrastructure on site. The mobile Internet is used to transmit collected data to the central monitoring application. We discuss the possible network selection algorithms, mobility and security protocols that can be implemented on the On Board Units (OBU). The proposed architecture is based on Host Identity Protocol (HIP). This protocol introduces a Host Identifier (HI) for naming the endpoints and use intensive cryptographic operation for security and mobility management. Due to their minimal computing capabilities, many single board computers used as OBU themselves suffer from applications which need intensive CPU usage. Thus, a performance analysis of HIP, implemented on single board computers, is proposed by the end of this paper.