Industry IoT Consortium

Edy Liongosari, Chief Research Scientist at Accenture Labs, discusses his role in the IIC Thought Leadership Task Group and the Journal of Innovation, and looks at how the IIC organizes members toward common goals.

We are happy to announce the updated version of the Industrial Internet Connectivity Framework (IICF), a foundation document that guides the […]... Read more →

A typical multi-party asset tracking application involves shippers, receivers and a freight-carrier network with multiple stakeholders (e.g., manufacturer, distributor, provider, carrier) that have mutual obligations to deliver assets in time. Unfortunately, the traditional asset-tracking solutions have posed a multitude of concerns due to the lack of trustworthy and transparent information across the supply chain.... Read more →

By Xinxin Fan and Raullen (Qi) Chai, IoTex A typical multi-party asset tracking application involves shippers, receivers and a freight-carrier network with multiple stakeholders (e.g., manufacturer, distributor, provider, carrier) that have mutual obligations to deliver assets in time. Unfortunately, the traditional asset-tracking solutions have posed a multitude of concerns due..... Read more →

Read the Journal of Innovation here Digital transformation is hardly a new topic. From the early beginnings of the IT revolution, over six decades ago, organizations have leveraged digital technologies to digitize their information, digitalize their business processes to enhance their operational efficiencies, optimize the way they deliver value to... Read more →

By Frederick Hirsch, Upham Security Third in a series of blogs from the Industry IoT Consortium Trustworthiness Task Group. For a comprehensive look at trustworthiness foundations in IIoT, download our foundational document. Connected systems introduce risks to each other, so a single system cannot be effectively trusted unless the other... Read more →

By Bob Martin, MITRE Second in a series of blogs from the Industrial Internet Consortium Trustworthy Task Group. For a comprehensive look at trustworthiness foundations in IIoT, download our foundational document. Definition Trustworthiness The degree of confidence one has that the system performs as expected. Characteristics include safety, security, privacy... Read more →

By Marcellus Buchheit, Co-founder of WIBU-SYSTEMS AG, President and CEO of WIBU-SYSTEMS USA First in a series of blogs from the Industry IoT Consortium Trustworthiness Task Group. For a comprehensive look at trustworthiness foundations in IIoT, download our foundational document. Trustworthiness, and confidence in that trustworthiness, are essential aspects of... Read more →

By Erin Bournival Dell Technologies The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is a rapidly expanding world of connected objects. As IIoT systems proliferate, large amounts of data are consumed by machine learning algorithms and shared between partners, customers, and others. IIoT is a technology environment in which integration and interoperability... Read more →

By Chuck Byers, Industrial Internet Consortium The Industrial Internet Consortium is pleased to bring you the 17th issue of the IIC Journal of Innovation, “Applying Solutions at the Distributed Edge.” IIC is a well-respected thought leader on edge computing and fog computing, and distributed computing. We have task groups active... Read more →

The power to convey information in a simple form. Patterns help reduce complexity and make it easier to design sustainable systems. Why collect and share patterns via the Industrial Internet Consortium's patterns collection initiative? For the good of the industry: efficient innovation, knowledge transfer, and more. Learn more.... Read more →

By Rance J. DeLong and Ekaterina Rudina MILS builds on and extends a long tradition of work on architectural approaches to security to provide methods and tools to create high-assurance architectures for secure information sharing and dependable systems. These approaches aim to leverage system architecture to prohibit an unauthorized subject... Read more →

By Kym Watson, Fraunhofer IOSB Complex things in an IIoT system require more advanced information models with well-defined underlying ontologies, extensible semantic description capabilities and data structures. Sharing and reuse of data between applications is a big challenge in building IIoT systems. Knowledge models for a specific application tend to... Read more →

By Chaisung Lim, Korea Industry 4.0 Association The BizOps for Digital Transformation in Industries (BDXI) framework is an innovation framework—an explicitly described framework that offers a guide to implement BDXI process concretely. In BDXI, BizOps means “BizDevOps” integrating IT and OT, applicable to innovation of business models, products and operation... Read more →

By Jim Morrish, Founding Partner, Transforma Insights Digital transformation (DX) is a type of disruption. It will unlock new possibilities in business models, value propositions and operational efficiency. Competitive dynamics will ensure that entire industries must transform to become a market leader or keep pace with market leaders, or face... Read more →

By Jason Robert Rameshwar, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago The need for social distancing, mask wearing, touchless systems, and reliable ICT infrastructures are critical during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Caribbean. Manual systems, such as user-activated thermal sensors or hand sanitizer dispensers, or even the... Read more →