Call to action button/Call out button

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Hello, my name is V and I am Engineer in a factory where we have a lot of machinery.

I been given a project to create device that will allow operators of machines to call out maintenance team without actually going and looking for them in maintenance office.

Device has to be LTE or WIFI.
Device has to show live information on the monitor. AKA, when operator presses "CALL OUT" button on the machine, that shows up on the screen in the maintenance office.

Is that something what Arduino is capable of?

Please help me out as I have no idea where to start, what to use.

Workflow:

  1. Operator presses button on the machine (CALL OUT BUTTON)
  2. Device sends commands to cloud which then displays sent information on the SCREEN. (MACHINE 1 DOWN, downtime starts to count down until call out has been responded and timer reset)
  3. Engineer responds on call out repairs MACHINE 1, presses CALL OUT BUTTON twice and stops downtime counting on the screen, as well as on the screen MACHINE 1 shows as RUNNING.

Idea was to try and use Arduino Opla kit, use buttons as commands and us IoT Cloud as user interface, would that work?

Thanks for ideas and help in advance.

V

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The intention for this forum is to help new hobbyists learning and growing in programming and electronics. It's not intended to help the industry.
The industry should use their resources and hire the needed knowledge.

You ask for help to define and design an entire project. That is, in my opinion, not a mission for this forum.

If other helpers give other answers, You're lucky.

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That project was my initiative - the way I want to learn electronics.

I suggested this, and they just chucked it on me entirely, so got to learn and start somewhere.

Basically got to do it myself.

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Yes, you can do all that with arduino but you will need to start somewhere. For example, have you got an arduino? Get one up and running and load some basic tutorial sketches to learn how it works. It will be a number of tutorials before you get a button working in the way you want. Focus on that. Attach an led as an output. Once you can turn an led on and off you will need to research state machines, blink without delay and millis timers, then you need to define your output and decide how you communicate from the arduino to a screen remotely

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Pros and cons.

An old-fashioned wired annunciator may be more reliable and practical. Both wired and WiFi systems have their problems in an industrial setting. :thinking:

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Good point.
If you’re still keen to use wireless strategies, ensure the system includes some closed-loop or beacon strategy that can automatically identify orphans - so that alarms are not missed.

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Hello decalslab

déjà vu ?

I had read a similar request month ago.

Take some time and make a search request here:

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Have a nice day and enjoy programming in C++ and learning.
Дайте миру шанс!

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