New Service-provider and Business-model Disruption in the IIoT
App Developers for
End-user Applications
MULTIPLE AUTHORITIES
Data Assets
Data Owner
Legacy Data
Manager
Internal Command and
Control Functions & Apps
Energy
Brokers
Analytics & other
Data-service Engines
Transport
Brokers
Energy
Brokers
Multiple Platforms
Payment Flows
Figure 6: oneTRANSPORT Phase 3: Extended commercial model involving multiple brokers and rich, data-sets
Additional direct benefits to the local authorities will increase over time, coming from savings in
transportation subsidies and reduction in health services for pollution-related illnesses.
Indirect benefits to counties include reduced commuter journey times, a lowering in pollution
related expenditure and increased interest in local investment.
The multiple transportation brokers in this phase can coexist in one or multiple platforms
targeting specific sector needs.
2.7
Organizations can Expect Business-model Disruption from IIoT
Platform Innovations
Suppliers and users of IIoT solutions face a more complex business future, characterized by closer
interaction between businesses via partnerships and service-delivery eco-systems. In addition,
the magnitude of the IIoT opportunity will introduce operating-scale challenges, beginning at the
level of connected devices, gateways and sensors and the data they produce.
IIoT platforms will consequently be essential to automate service-enablement processes in order
to deliver high-quality IIoT applications at cost-efficient price points. IIoT platforms will also be
essential to support interoperability and to contain the impact of systems integration
investments each time two organizations or a company’s different business-units wish to
collaborate.
Standardized IIoT service-enablement plays a pivotal role in heterogeneous IT, OT and multivendor environments. The oneTRANSPORT trial, and its eleven participating organizations,
typifies such an environment. The trial also addresses many of the business, operational and
technical challenges arising from a matrix of multiple applications and multiple users. Under such
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