Industry IoT Consortium

From the drilling site to the refinery, O&G operators deploy pushers such as pumps, compressors, and turbines to transport highly inflammable products across thousands of kilometers through uninhabited spaces and ecologically fragile areas. An unplanned or accidental breakdown can have a catastrophic long term impact on the surrounding environment. Monitoring and keeping pipeline assets under surveillance is however a routine but equally daunting and critical task for any enterprise.... 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 →

In the last century, transportation, medical, power, and industrial systems were built from individual devices, usually programmed one at a time. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is changing all of that, transforming isolated programmable devices into intelligent networks of connected machines, such as autonomous cars, intelligent drone delivery systems, smart grid power systems, automated air traffic control, connected medical devices, robotic oil drilling, and more. As a result, these systems have unique computing requirements including real-time processing, complex data interconnectivity, integrated security, high performance, reliability, and scalability. ... Read more →

Through advances in control and robotics research, we can reliably deploy drones on manual or pre-planned trajectories. In the near future, we will even be able to anticipate collision avoidance and formation flights in commercial drones. A fleet of drones will be able to self-pilot itself to capture video several hours a day in smart cities and industrial sites, thereby collecting massive amounts of video data. To manage this volume of video data in real-time, drones need fog networks.... Read more →

Although technology has been largely viewed as a cost driver by the pharmaceutical industry, IoT is being widely implemented to turn this scenario around. Particularly, digital solutions, as well as increasing access to smartphones and social media can play a vital role in pairing patients with the right study at the right time.... Read more →

What are the economics behind the emerging market for fog computing? Fog computing enables advanced digital deployments in AI, IoT and 5G, and also creates new business models from new services. Yet there are additional economic factors at stake. In this article, we take a look at the network economics pricing policies and incentive mechanisms for networked or computing systems.... Read more →

As awareness surrounding Internet of Things (IoT) standardization continues to grow, more eyes are being drawn to interoperability and network infrastructure solutions. In working together to help drive industry awareness surrounding the benefits of TSN, Avnu and IIC hope to maximize industry interoperability between IIoT systems, while increasing portability, security and privacy for the industrial Internet now, and into the future.... Read more →

With the rapid growth of the Industrial IIoT and the wide diversity of stakeholders and industries involved, “getting on the same page” has become more difficult, yet more important than ever. The IIC Industrial Internet Vocabulary Technical Report v2.0 ensures all IIoT stakeholders are speaking the same language, avoiding what would otherwise be an IIoT ‘Tower of Babel.’”... Read more →

According to the FAA, last year more than 670,000 drones were registered in the U.S. alone. Drones – also known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) – are poised to transform key industries by providing cost-effective new services. While drones are really cool, so are all the ground support elements and software algorithms needed to make the operation of a large fleet safe and efficient. Many of these elements require local intelligence. That’s where fog computing and fog networking come in.... Read more →