The Emerging IIC Verticals Taxonomy Landscape
Start with a use case
Does the outcome of the use case require a high
degree of safety, security, reliability, resilience, or
privacy?
Yes
An Industrial
Internet Use Case
Yes
No
In the context of
its dependencies…
Is the use case depended upon by other
systems/components that require a high degree
of safety, security, reliability, resilience, or
privacy?
No
Not an Industrial
Internet Use Case
Figure 5 shows a decision process that illustrates the prevailing IIC Technical Perspective regarding the classification of a use
case as an “Industrial Internet Use Case”.
With a database of existing use cases catalogued by their level of required key system
characteristics, each prospective use case can be evaluated in comparison with the known
profiles of Industrial Internet systems.
Figure 2 illustrates key system characteristics of a known IIoT Use Case, along with the level of
key system characteristics for the prospect 13 . The IIRA highlights the characteristics that are
particularly important for IIoT systems: Safety, Security, Reliability, Resiliency and Privacy, but
there are others that may be important for any particular IIoT System. Simply put, if a use case
requires some mixture of safety, security, reliability, resiliency and privacy, then it’s likely an
Industrial Internet use case.
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The chart is merely an illustration of a particular methodology, not meant to be taken literally .
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