Industrial Internet: Towards Interoperability and Composability
Figure 8: Industrial Internet Functional Domains
The functional domains, Business, Information, Application and even Operations (which is similar
to OT-type systems), are similar to the IT systems which are increasingly built on Enterprise/Cloud
Computing platforms. So, conventional approaches in solving the interoperability problem may
still be applicable. However, new interoperability requirements emerge. A few key new
requirements are outlined below along with recommendations on some initial steps to address
them for the immediate term.
1. In order to ensure that common capabilities in the Operations Domain can be platformized and used to manage and maintain various kinds of industrial assets from various
vendors and across industrial sectors, it is highly desirable to establish interoperability
between the industrial assets in the Control Domain and the Operations Domain.
Establishing cross-industrial sector standards and providing Open Source
implementations are considered important steps for establishing interoperability
between these two domains, making it easy to connect to and effectively maintain the
industrial assets.
2. The need for interoperability between the industrial assets in the Control Domain and the
Information Domain. The most significant challenge in interoperability here lies in data
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