Industry IoT Consortium
Early in the evolution of the IoT, analysts and pundits were obsessed with the ability to connect billions of IoT “things” to the Internet. Not only were most of these predictions proven overly optimistic, but the linkage between sheer connectivity and meaningful business outcomes was loose, at best. We now witness a similar data deluge campaign: given enough data and clever computational techniques, we can make learning systems more “intelligent.” But is it enough?... Read more →
An early definition of artificial intelligence was one of “thinking machines” that could make decisions like humans, and with some people, elicited a fear that these thinking machines could actually replace humans in the manufacturing world. Today’s perception of AI, however, is geared more towards machines that exhibit human reasoning as a “guide to provide better services or create better products rather than trying to achieve a perfect replica of the human mind.”... Read more →
A big part of Industry 4.0 requires the successful integration of the supply chain into the manufacturing process. In the ideal vision, a close cooperation, with rapid information sharing, is established between suppliers, the manufacturer and end customers. But this vision demands a major paradigm shift from traditional manufacturing infrastructure.... Read more →
On May 17th, the Edge Lab is hosting a special conference celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Lab on the Princeton campus. “Edge10: A Conference on Edge & Fog” is open to the public and represents an important milestone for the edge industry. The conference will feature prominent leaders from the nation's leading research universities and industry, including large, established players and vibrant startups.... Read more →
Initiated in 2010, IoT Day is about sharing anecdotes to help raise awareness about the many ways the industrial internet impacts the world. This year, the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) celebrates our 5th anniversary, and we are participating with a social media campaign (#IoTDay) featuring member success, testbed results and the value of participating in the IIC ecosystem.... Read more →
The upcoming union of the Industrial Internet Consortium and the OpenFog Consortium, announced this week, will transform the future of industrial networks. The two organizations’ combined talents will enable us to capitalize on the undeniable momentum of the two largest and most influential international consortia in Industrial IoT, 5G and AI computing.... Read more →
The merger of the OpenFog Consortium and the Industrial Internet Consortium is a win/win/win for end users, Consortium members, and the industry overall. Both consortia share a pragmatic approach of developing specifications and testbeds and aligning the interests of a diverse set of stakeholders from throughout the broader community.... Read more →
Helder Antunes, Founder and Chairman of OpenFog Consortium, bids farewell to the organization.... Read more →
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is heralding a new wave of modernization, across many industries, with customers and internal stakeholders demanding advances in productivity, management, security, and flexibility across various verticals. However, IIoT deployments continue to face considerable head-winds in terms of (largely) manually managed infrastructure, that are mostly un-secure and setup as silos. Fog Computing offers an innovative solution to address these challenges by providing secure access to Operational Technology (OT) infrastructure within the framework of Information Technology (IT) toolsets.... Read more →
As more connected devices come into use across the industrial IoT (IIoT), traditional cloud computing architectures are no longer sufficient. Current centralized systems simply don’t hold up to the scale and security requirements of so many billions of IoT devices, including the secure storage, availability over intermittent network connections, access control, authentication, and real-time analysis of a near-constant data stream. The traditional approach involves moving data from the edge to a central server for processing, which increases latency and reduces available bandwidth across the network. Most importantly, however, the transfer of massive amounts of data from devices at the edge to a central system greatly increases the chance for a security breach, resulting in lost and compromised information.... Read more →