Industry IoT Consortium

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 →

By Farid Bichareh, CTO, AASA, Inc. (Excerpted from IIC Tech Brief Digital Transformation in Manufacturing: Key Insights & Future Trends) The global pandemic is shaping a different world. In this new world, despite the short-term decrease in demand, in the medium-to-long run, the COVID-19 digital transformation impact seems to be... Read more →

By Seth DeSantis, Director, Brilliant Manufacturing P&E, GE Aviation (Excerpted from IIC Tech Brief Digital Transformation in Manufacturing: Key Insights & Future Trends) GE Aviation started its IIoT journey during the second quarter of 2015. That journey started when a group of engineers were looking to code custom PLC logic... Read more →

In an increasingly connected world, managing device and user identities as well as the relationships among various entities faces significant challenges due to the lack of IAM standards for IoT... Read more →

By IIC Thought Leadership Task Group Co-Chairs: Edy Liongosari, Chief Research Scientist, Accenture Labs, and Mark Crawford, Director, Standards Strategy, SAP As of this publication date, there have been more than 50.5 million cases of COVID-19 worldwide and more than 1.2 million deaths[1]. The virus has been detected in nearly... Read more →

By Michael Thomas, SAS Systems Architect, SAS (Excerpted from IIC Tech Brief.) AR is the digital augmentation of the physical world. The term is most popularly applied to wearable headgear that projects the digital augmentation directly on the wearer’s view of reality. Commonly, this is achieved by projecting the augmentation... Read more →

Organizations can either adopt change willingly and proactively, or forcibly by market demand. Any choice in the matter faced an unlikely dictator this year in the form of a worldwide pandemic. One that some organizations had no choice but to scale in ways they had only previously envisaged, within the context of a long-term strategy.... Read more →

Once recognized as slow to adapt to technology, the construction segment is now an industry on the fast track. By connecting start-ups with major industry organizations, the Industrial Internet Consortium's Smart Construction Challenge enabled implementations of the next-gen smart construction digital ecosystems.... Read more →

Disruptive technologies are transforming all industries into digital industries and repositioning them to reap the benefits of Industry 4.0. In the industrial context, digital transformation (DX) is primarily a business objective.The IIC has captured the many challenges and technological hurdles that accompany this journey along with guidance in their recently published white paper, Digital Transformation in Industry.... Read more →

We pride ourselves in our resilience and our ability to think and invent our way out of a crisis. Technological optimism has been one of the engines of modern life, and its promise has often held true in the past. Time and again, technology has helped us master the challenges of history. At the same time, we have become reliant on it, and too often willfully ignorant of the consequences.... Read more →

Wireless connectivity is needed to achieve the agility demanded by Industry 4.0, particularly in large scale manufacturing facilities. Currently wireless is only used sparingly, typically with unlicensed spectrum technologies. Several competing wireless technologies are emerging as candidates for Industry 4.0, including WiFi-6 for unlicensed spectrum, and 4G-LTE and 5G in licensed spectrum bands. Recent 5G technology releases have incorporated key capabilities for Industry 4.0, such as ultra-reliable low latency connectivity, Ethernet-TSN integration, and a variety of features for massive machine type communications.... Read more →

We lost a beloved colleague earlier this week. I wanted to take this time and space to express our gratitude for having the great fortune to have known Brett Murphy in his too-short life and share how important he has been to us. Brett Murphy has been a member of... Read more →