The Emerging IIC Verticals Taxonomy Landscape
This classification also helps identify verticals markets that can be used to organize and discuss
technical requirements. A vertical is a market in which vendors offer goods and services that
meet a particular set of usage, technical or regulatory requirements.
Both use cases are Industrial
Internet use cases.
Therefore, Medical Devices and
Home Healthcare are Industrial
Internet Verticals.
Medical Devices and Home
Healthcare are both in the
Healthcare Sector because they
both "deal with the maintenance
and improvement of physical and
mental health, especially through
the provision of medical services."
Figure 4: The organization scheme of the Verticals Taxonomy Landscape in regards to its application to two existing IIC use
cases.
Figure 4 (above) shows the organization scheme of the Verticals Taxonomy Landscape in regards
to its application to two existing IIC use cases.
Theoretically, use cases within a vertical will share requirements, but that is not always the case.
For example, the healthcare sector has many verticals such as medical devices (see: IIC UC0016)
and home healthcare monitoring (see: UC012). As another example, the IIC Safety Task Group
may choose 4-5 “safety critical verticals” that will sufficiently cover the safety requirements that
might arise in the Industrial Internet. Table 1 below, is an initial set of the Verticals for the
identified Sectors.
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