What’s New at the IIC
referring you to different areas in the IIC Resource Hub which are of direct relevance to
your project.
IIoT Maturity Assessment: This tool will enable you to understand your overall
organizational readiness for IIoT and highlight areas that may soon need to be
enhanced. We will also link to key IIC assets to help with your journey.
Security Maturity Model: This Practitioner’s Guide provides a pragmatic approach,
enabling implementation teams to communicate an IIoT system’s current state of
security through confident discussions with business stakeholders about the desired
state of security maturity, where gaps exist and a roadmap for achieving their goal.
Foundations
Architecture: The IIRA is a standards-based open architecture for IIoT systems. The IIRA
maximizes its value by having broad industry applicability to drive interoperability, map
applicable technologies and guide technology and standard development. The
architecture description and representation are generic and at a high level of
abstraction to support the requisite broad industry applicability.
Frameworks: There are a number of IIoT Frameworks publicly available including a
Business Strategy and Innovation Framework, an Industrial Internet Connectivity
Framework, an Industrial IoT Analytics Framework and a Security Framework. Our
Vocabulary Technical Report specifies a common set of definitions for effective
communication within the industrial internet ecosystem.
Best Practices: IIC best practices documents and white papers include three new
publications: Data Protection Best Practices, Managing and Assessing Trustworthiness
for IIoT in Practice and The Edge Computing Advantage white papers.
Community
Industry Leadership Councils: These councils consist of CxO’s and strategists in a
particular industry. The goal is to understand problems they face so IIC members can
address them, as well as to gather feedback from industry for incorporation into our
best practices, frameworks and architecture. So far, we have one industry leadership
council for manufacturing. An example of the kind of issue that might arise is a request
to specialize the IIRA to add a manufacturing viewpoint.
Ecosystem: Membership in the Industrial Internet Consortium is open to any company.
Our members represent large and small industry, entrepreneurs, academics and
government organizations with an interest in helping to shape and grow the Industrial
Internet. Non-members and technology end-users may participate by hosting Test
Drives and Testbeds and through the IoT Challenges Program.
Special Interest Groups: Closest to the technology are special interest groups (SIGs).
These groups focus on technologies across multiple verticals. Over-the-air updates, for
example, are especially valuable for automotive, but they are also useful for automating
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