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However, there are few openly-reported practical project applications based on the IIoT up to now. For legacy automation devices in traditional industry, it is especially challenging to realize the upgrading of industrial automation adopting the IIoT technology with less investment. Based on the practical engineering experience, this paper introduces the automation renovation of a sewage treatment plant. The legacy automation devices are upgraded by the central controller of a STM32 processor (Produced by STMicroelectronics company, located in Geneva, Switzerland), and the WeChatApplet (Developed by Tencent company, located in Shenzhen, China) is used as the extended host computer. A set of remote monitoring and control systems of sewage treatment based on the IIoT is built to realize the wide-area monitoring and control of sewage treatment. The paper describes the field hardware system, wide-area monitoring and control application program, management cloud platform and security technologies in detail. The actual operation results show that the monitoring system has the requirements of high accuracy, good real-time performance, reliable operation and low cost.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s20082175","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,13]],"date-time":"2020-04-13T10:41:52Z","timestamp":1586774512000},"page":"2175","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":37,"title":["Renovation of Automation System Based on Industrial Internet of Things: A Case Study of a Sewage Treatment Plant"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"Wanhao","family":"Zhu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electrical Engineering, Guangzhou College of South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510800, China"}]},{"given":"Zhidong","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center of Smart Energy Technology, School of Electric Power, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China"}]},{"given":"Zifan","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electrical Engineering, Guangzhou College of South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510800, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Zhao, Y., Song, Y., Cui, J., Gan, S., Yang, X., Wu, R., and Guo, P. 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