Toward Digital Transformation of Processes in Legal Metrology for Weighing Instruments

Abstract

The digital transformation of sovereign processes is a driving force to streamline and innovate processes for measuring instruments under legal control. Providing trust is the essential purpose of Legal Metrology and still a challenging task in the digital domain. Taking the strict legal framework into account, a distributed software architecture is presented that offers privacy, security and resilience. At the same time, the platform approach seamlessly integrates existing public and private infrastructures. Furthermore, a service hub is created with interdependent services that support the digital transformation of paper-based processes, such as verification and software update.Exemplary, these two central use cases are introduced, and its requirements and implementation approach are described. The main goal is to provide the same level of trust and security, by developing new digital concepts, infrastructure and remote processes for a unified digital single market.

Digital transformation: Towards process automation in a cloud native architecture

“…In the last years, a distributed microservice architecture has been built and designed explicitly in the domain of legal metrology with a focus on interconnecting external stakeholders [2], [3], [4], [5]. While the generic IT architectural design approach has proven to be successful, a similar approach will be pursued to digitally transform the internal process flow.…”

“…The envisioned distributed microservice software architecture borrows heavily from the concepts designed and developed in [2], [3], [4], [5] and adds the following requirements:…”

Secure Exchange of Digital Metrological Data in a Smart Overhead Crane

“…In the United States, National Conference of Standards Laboratories International (NCSLI) 141 MII & Automation Committee is developing the Measurement Information Infrastructure (MII) with a similar aim of making metrological information more available for the purposes of the IoT [37]. For legal metrology, similar digitalization initiatives include the European Metrology Cloud and its spinoff research project AnGeWaNt in Germany [38,39].…”

Digital Transformation: Towards a Cloud Native Architecture for Highly Automated and Event Driven Processes

“…In the last years a distributed microservice archtitecture has been built and designed explicitly in the domain of legal metrology with a focus on interconnecting external stakeholders [2,3,4]. While the generic IT architectural design approach has proven to be successful, a similar approach will be pursued to digitally transform the internal process flow.…”