The Emerging IIC Verticals Taxonomy Landscape
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INTRODUCTION
Many of the ideas, concepts, models and technologies concerning the Industrial Internet are
widely applicable across industrial sectors. The Industrial Internet, as described by the Industrial
Internet Consortium's (IIC’s) Industrial Internet Reference Architecture is “an internet of things,
machines, computers and people, enabling intelligent industrial operations using advanced data
analytics for transformational business outcomes. It embodies the convergence of the global
industrial ecosystem, advanced computing and manufacturing, pervasive sensing and ubiquitous
network connectivity.” Howeve