Business Strategy and Innovation Framework
within the enterprise is also important to direct the specific requirements and applications of IIoT solutions, and ensure that all parts of the overall organization work together to define how this should benefit all elements of the business. This collaboration also provides for proper budgeting of resources and development and ensures an equitable and effective use of resources.
This governance approach ensures representation of all elements of the business and that all elements are working together within the enterprise toward a unified view of IIoT introduction and implementation. It also ensures data and insight are used to benefit the entire business endto-end.
6.2 INDUSTRIAL IOT PLATFORM
The second foundational block underpinning the IIoT implementation framework is the IIoT industrial platform. In this section, we address three IIoT platform implementation issues.
� What is an IIoT platform? � IIoT platform selection parameters � Standards in the IIoT
6.2.1 WHAT IS AN IIOT PLATFORM?
From a functional perspective, an IIoT platform is a technical system that provides a range of enabling services to support the delivery of IIoT applications.
In the context of the IIC’ s testbed initiative, individual( vertical) applications such as asset efficiency management, micro-grid controllers, and factory operations rely on IIoT platform services to deliver robust, scalable, and secure applications to end users.
Figure 6-1 below illustrates the platform support requirements of an IIoT solution in relation to four applications, Apps # 1 to # 4. Each IIoT application communicates with its respective devices and sensors, via an enabling IIoT platform. Thus, App # 1 communicates with Device A and Device B.
Many IIoT systems operate on common infrastructure in the form of wide-area communications networks and cloud-computing platforms. However, while App # 1 and App # 2 share common infrastructure and services on Platform A, they do not interoperate. The term‘ silo solution’ is a common characterization of the combination of elements that constitute such an IIoT application stack.
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