What’s New at the IIC: Reimagining Business and Industry
and diverse. Train-to-ground wireless communication networks must be more reliable
and secure, and must provide more sufficient bandwidth resources.
The services include Communication Based Train Control (CBTC), Passenger Information
System (PIS), CCTV monitoring, trunking communication and Train Control and
Monitoring Systems (TCMS). Multiple wireless technologies support the different
services. To guarantee critical service, two Wi-Fi-based networks carry critical and
noncritical services respectively, operating with vendor-specific extensions. They are not
standardized or interoperable. The IIC LTE for Metro Testbed plans to replace existing
non-standard networks with a standard single-technology-based network tailored to
metro railway requirements and meeting the needs of the urban rail industry for service
functions, performance and reliability. The LTE for Metro Testbed will serve as a
benchmark and technical resource for future urban rail communications.
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Testbed Results: Best Practices for Developing and Deploying IIoT Solutions
IIC testbeds are where the innovation and opportunities of the industrial internet—new
technologies, new applications, new products, new services, new processes, new
business models—can be initiated, thought through and rigorously tested to ascertain
their usefulness and viability before coming to market. The IIC portfolio of testbeds
includes nearly 30 testbeds, all in various stages. IIC recently published a whitepaper
offering key insights based on a compilation of testbed outcomes. This whitepaper, “A
Compilation of Testbed Results: Toward Best Practices for Developing and Deploying IIoT
Solutions,” offers lessons learned about project initiation, planning/management,
establishing the value of platforms, dealing with brownfield constraints or limited
resources, deploying supportive technologies such as machine learning and artificial
intelligence (AI) and mistakes to avoid.
The authors interviewed many testbed sponsors and participants, and the paper includes
learnings from the following testbeds:
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INFINITE (INternational Future INdustrial Internet Testbed) Testbed
Track and Trace Testbed
Time Sensitive Network – Flexible Manufacturing Testbed
Distributed Energy Resources Integration Testbed
Intelligent Urban Water Supply Testbed
Smart Factory Web Testbed
Manufacturing Quality Management Testbed
Smart Manufacturing Connectivity Testbed
Factory Operations Visibility and Intelligence Testbed
Deep Learning Facility Testbed
Smart Printing Factory Testbed
Smart Machine Learning for Predictive Maintenance Testbed
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