Industry IoT Consortium

The tone of the many well-meaning discussions about the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) varies widely from one viewpoint of unbridled optimism about the seemingly endless possibilities to another filled with apocalyptic doom and gloom about the safety of the planet and everyone on it. Two extreme views perhaps, but there is no denying the fact that security is an issue that needs to be carefully addressed before any of those endless possibilities can become a reality in the industrial internet.... Read more →

New IIC White Paper: The Business Viewpoint for Securing the Industrial Internet By Evan Birkhead, VP Marketing, Bayshore Networks Part of the Industrial Internet Consortium’s (IIC’s) mission is to bring together different viewpoints to share information and find common ground for progress. Frankly, we haven’t encountered a topic more polarizing... Read more →

Far from the menacing stuff of Hollywood sci-fi movies, the reality is that smart machines represent a tremendous advancement for any industry that relies on machine technology... Read more →

IT and OT have had fairly separate roles within an organization. However, with the emergence of the Industrial Internet and the integration of complex physical machinery with networked sensors and software, the lines between the two teams are blurring... Read more →

Uncover what artificial intelligence, machine intelligence (MI), and machine learning (ML) actually mean and how they accelerate Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) data projects.... Read more →

With the increasing use of renewable energy sources at the edge of the power grid, increasing threats of cyber-attacks on the power system and aging infrastructure in the grid, there is an urgent, growing need for a new “smart” grid. This testbed provides a proof-of-concept environment in which to apply new IIoT technologies to challenges in deploying a smart grid.... Read more →

By Greg Conary – Schneider Electric’s Senior Vice President & of Head of Strategy. This blog originally appeared on the Schneider Electric Blog Site in May 2016. The next industrial revolution, Industry 4.0, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) – whatever you want to call it, is one of the... Read more →

By Andrew Miller, Senior Sales Engineer at Bit Stew Systems If we examine the root cause of an IT organization’s pain, it continues to be the inability to integrate data from many disparate and operationally focused systems. A recent survey1 found that only 18% of the respondents had extensively integrated... Read more →

An overview of the IIC Security Framework by Jesus Molina, Security Consultant, Fujitsu & Co-chair IIC Security Working Group Find Jesus Molina on Twitter: @verifythentrust or LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/molinajesus Let’s get this out of the way: Industrial systems are getting networked. Your house appliances will get networked as well soon... Read more →

The IIC congratulates Bit Stew for recently being named as a finalist for the British Columbia Technology Industry Association (BCTIA) BCTIA 2016 Technology Impact Awards (TIAs) in the 'Company of the Year' category. This blog contributed by: Mike Varney, Executive Director, Product Management & Strategic Initiatives, Bit Stew Systems Pervasive... Read more →

By: Hussain Ahmed – OEM Segment Program Manager, Schneider Electric, & Eric Vatonne - HVACR Pumping OEM Segment Leader, Schneider Electric This blog originally appeared as a Schneider Electric Blog on March 14, 2016. Scarcity of water resources, growth in urban population, environmental regulations and process inefficiencies are all contributing... Read more →

By Karen Dosanjh, Senior Director, Marketing & Communications, BitStew Systems. This blog originally appeared on the BitStew Systems’ Blog Page: Insights on the Industrial Internet of Things. BC Hydro is the primary electric provider in British Columbia, Canada, with more than 18,000 km of transmission lines, 260 substations, 41 dam... Read more →

Cyber Security: The Cornerstone of IIoT Adoption by Greg Conary – Schneider Electric’s Senior Vice President of Strategy This blog originally appeared on the Schneider Electric Blog Site. Over the past decade or more the need for cyber security in industrial automation and control systems has been accelerating at an... Read more →

By Cheryl Rocheleau, Verticals Marketing Manager at the Industrial Internet Consortium. As the world of traditional manufacturing fuses with digital manufacturing, organizations are tapping into a level of technical orchestration never attainable before. Symphonies of systems facilitate real-time interactions between machines, assets, systems and things. This is the Smart factory... Read more →

The data integration challenge is leaving many industrial enterprises feeling like they are drowning in data. This article by Alex Clark, Chief Software Architect at Bit Stew, shares insights on the heavy-lift involved in supporting your data management strategy. This Blog originally appeared on April 13, 2016 on Bit Stew... Read more →

By Jean-Pascal Tricoire, Chairman & CEO of Schneider Electric. This blog post originally appeared on the Schneider Electric site at http://blog.schneider-electric.com/smart-cities/2016/04/06/innovation-every-level/. The way we currently manage energy is unsustainable. Three megatrends are provoking an important increase in energy demand: Urbanization, industrialization, and digitization. Today we still depend on unsustainable CO2-emitting... Read more →