What’s New at the IIC: Reimagining Business and Industry
IoT Challenges – Winners
The series of IoT Challenges announced in Spring 2019 wrapped up Round 1 of the Smart
Buildings Challenge with winners announced at Bosch Connected World in February 2020. The
Smart Buildings Challenge presented contestants with a set of smart building problems faced by
building operators and investors, as well as a set of parameters required of the solutions.
Technology suppliers developed solution proposals, alone or with partners, and competed for
the opportunity to deploy pilot implementations to fulfill the requirements outlined by the
challenge. A jury selected the winners from a pool of 39 entries from 26 contestants. The winners
were:
• Cubelizer S.L., who won for Smart Space Flow Analytics;
• Aedifion and Thing Technologies, who won for both the Smart Metering in Multi-Tenant
Commercial Buildings and Smart Automated Building use cases; and
• Holisticon and its subsidiary Markenwerk, who won for Smart Building Cockpit.
Winners receive the opportunity to deliver a live proof-of-concept in a shopping mall supported
by Deka Immobilien, ECE and TÜV SÜD. Technology partners providing technology for the
challenge included Bosch, Microsoft and Security and Safety Things. Additional finalists for the
Smart Buildings Challenge were BuildingMinds, Cloud Studio, G2K Group, Limitless
Insight, Moeco, Oriient New Media and Umajin.
Technical Documents
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Digital Twins for Industrial Applications: Definition, Business Values, Design Aspects,
Standards and Use Cases
Digital twins are recognized as a key technology for realizing the promises of Industrial
IoT, yet there is still much confusion surrounding the topic. On the heels of the November
2019 edition of the Journal of Innovation, IIC members published a whitepaper
highlighting use cases as a way to illustrate an industrial IoT use case and its twin. “Digital
Twins for Industrial Applications: Definition, Business Values, Design Aspects, Standards
and Use Cases” is available for download and can be used by business and technical
leaders to gain a better understanding of the concept of digital twin and its industrial
applications in the technical context of building up new IIoT systems and improving
existing ones, and in the broader business context of advancing their digitalization
process.
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Advancing the Industrial Internet of Things, a joint whitepaper
A new joint whitepaper released by the IIC and oneM2M reveals how developers seeking
to reduce complexity when designing IoT and IIoT systems can leverage different
architectural approaches side-by-side to enable faster time-to-market of new industrial
services and use cases. This collaborative work demonstrates how two leading IoT
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