Industry IoT Consortium
In 2016, the Industrial Internet Consortium gained agreement upon an understanding of the term “trustworthiness” and its effect on design and operation of an industrial system. At the core of that understanding was a definition of trustworthiness and the designation of five characteristics that define trustworthiness.... Read more →
So why are businesses talking so much about IoT? Well, in simple terms it supports the process of getting information more quickly, it embraces different technologies to collaborate, and the purpose is to deliver more value than the previous process before it. Sounds exciting, right? But why are people and businesses still confused about what IoT can do for them? In my opinion, many technology businesses believe they can do everything, and the reality is that they can’t! IoT is about an ecosystem, teamwork and capable systems.... Read more →
The volume of data being generated by genomics research per day is doubling every seven months – comprising critical dosage and formulation information along with trial safety signals. The current IT infrastructure is incapable of handling this flow, let alone store and share it securely. Having recognized this problem, organizations are developing cloud-based platforms as clinical and medical data repositories with embedded analytics capabilities.... Read more →
John W. Koon interviews Helder Antunes, Chairman of the OpenFog Consortium. They discuss OpenFog's progress and the organization's goals for the future.... Read more →
The IIC, through its Liaison Working Group, has worked to build coalitions in the industry via liaison relationships that foster deep collaboration, with the goal of accelerating IIoT adoption and realizing the economic and social gains.The liaison relationship between IIC and IVI, is an example of this type of collaboration.... Read more →
Differing viewpoints around ownership of the development and enforcement of endpoint security mechanisms has been an ongoing debate. Does it reside within the realm of IT or OT? IIoT has blurred traditional IT and OT infrastructure boundaries and added a level of confusion to the inevitable convergence of the two realms, particularly in regards to security. Both IT and OT need to understand the risks imposed by new or existing IIoT devices connecting to the Internet and the corporate network. And, both need to know how to track and manage these risks as a team.... Read more →
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 →
We’re in the middle of another industrial revolution. We’re seeing the digitalization of business processes and operations, and transformation in how goods and services are designed, produced, and delivered. As part of this transformation, organizations are moving to self-healing systems where automation is used to reconfigure networks, systems, and processes improving availability, reliability and quality of their services and products. This article explores the exponential growth of data from sensors and connected devices, and how organizations can manage the increasing pace of change.... Read more →