Monitoring and alarm interpretation in industrial environments

The 'ALARM' research group has been running two years as a multi-labs group within the French National Program on Artificial Intelligence PRC-IA. The group's objective was to bring together representatives of the academic and industrial worlds in order to analyze, on real applications, the various p roblems raised by alarm interpretation and to define the potential benefits of AI techniques in this field. This paper presents the conclusions stemmi ng from the analysis and discussions which took place during this period. I t describes the industrial applications which the members of the group deal t with and compares them in a table with respect to several criteria identi fied as the most significant.