Results, Insights and Best-Practices from IIC Testbeds: INFINITE Testbed
As another example, Asavie and Dell EMC, were discussing participation in the INFINITE Testbed when the activities and importance of the IIC were highlighted. Asavie joined the INFINITE Testbed in early 2016 and the Asavie PassBridge™ IoT Connectivity Platform delivers the underlying connectivity platform for the INFINITE testbed.
“ Asavie is fulfilling an important role in the industrial IoT community through their involvement with INFINITE. As the need for more dynamic systems continues to grow, organizations are utilizing mobile networks to connect to virtual systems. Asavie PassBridge technology enables companies prove the viability of doing all this in a secure and scalable manner on the INFINITE testbed.”- Donagh Buckley
As the discussion developed, Asavie recognized the value of IIC membership and joined the IIC shortly thereafter.
As the INFINITE Testbed grows, there are plans underway to expand the roles of existing partners, as well as add new partners. CIT has established a campus company to manage the day-to-day operations of the INFINTE testbed and to grow and develop the IIoT ecosystem of technology, partners and expertise. Any organization, regardless of size, sector or location can join the INFINITE testbed. A Membership model has been developed that offers members many benefits including access to the testbed resources, technological expertise and networking opportunities. This enables the offering of a truly open platform that will enable the growth of the IIoT ecosystem.
5. OUTCOMES
From the many use cases, in their varying levels of maturity, the INFINITE Testbed team has learned specific lessons, discovered and documented best practices and experienced outcomes that will help improve the lives of those living within the boundaries of the deployments and be the foundation for expanding the innovations to reach larger populations.
The INFINITE team developed a use case engagement process that takes into account the multivendor and multi-partner composition of the INFINITE ecosystem. This unified process is an endto-end integration of different partner and technological processes that combine to support all activities covering initial use case engagement with INFINITE customers, requirements specification, design, deployment, results and use case sign-off.
Bluelight: The results of the early phases of this use case are not publicly available but important factors were discovered that affect ambulance speed and transit times. The insights from this use case will drive improvements in service resilience and service flexibility for ambulance service.
Flood Event Advisory Service: This use case is not fully deployed but the testbed team anticipate impacts such as greater efficiencies through the automation of manual processes and improved accuracy of Flood Prediction events leading to better informed public.
- 58- January 2017