What’s New at the IIC: Reimagining Business and Industry
organizations are working together to advance the IIoT and digital transformation
through the creation of a robust, interoperable, flexible and efficient IIoT ecosystem. An
effort of the Liaison Working Group, IIC and oneM2M aim to help vertical markets achieve
interoperability and reusability by minimizing complexity and the cost of designing,
developing and deploying IoT and IIoT systems to shorten time-to-market and value-
creation cycles.
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The Industrial Internet of Things: Managing and Assessing Trustworthiness for IIoT in
Practice
Trustworthiness is the degree to which a system performs as expected in the face of
environmental disturbances, loss of performance quality and accuracy, human errors,
system faults and attacks. Assurance of trustworthiness is the degree of confidence one
has in this expectation. A system must be assured as being trustworthy for a business or
organization to have confidence in it. Depending on the context of the system and the
possible consequences of failures, the effort spent on achieving a specific level of
confidence will vary. With this whitepaper, the IIC hopes to raise awareness in industry of
the importance of trustworthiness, context and assurance; how to measure, analyze and
assess it; as well as how to manage and govern it.
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Software Trustworthiness Best Practices
Untrustworthy software has significant, even life-threatening effects in an industrial
context where trustworthy implementations are required for safe, secure, private,
reliable, resilient and functional systems. This paper provides a high-level overview of
software trustworthiness for developers, owners/operators and decision makers in IIoT
systems. Written my members of the Trustworthiness Task Group, this document
addresses various aspects of creating, acquiring and protecting software. It provides
practical and actionable best practices for recognizing, addressing managing and
mitigating risks and their sources, whether developed in-house or acquired.
Testbeds, Test Drives and Testbed Results
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Long Term Evolution (LTE) for Metro Testbed
Announced in March 2020, the new Long Term Evolution (LTE) for Metro Testbed led by
Huawei and partners is the first IIC testbed for the rail transportation industry. The LTE
for Metro Testbed shows the feasibility of adapting LTE for Metro technologies for the
urban rail sector.
Within metro systems, multiple types of wireless communication services are used for
train control and for management between devices on a moving train and facilities on the
ground. As information and communications technology in construction continues to
grow, the requirements for urban rail operational management become more stringent
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