Results, Insights and Best-Practices from IIC Testbeds: INFINITE Testbed
Success for INFINITE is not about a single organization but about the strength in depth and technical capabilities of its partners and ecosystem. The INFINITE proposition enables the testbed team to leverage Dell EMC’ s strong proposition in edge gateways as well as their large ecosystem of partners that OEM on their gateway solutions. Dell EMC provide the leading cloud and storage platforms for INFINITE. For Application Developer frameworks, INFINITE integrates Pivotal Cloud Foundry( PCF) which enables an open Platform-as-a-Service that supports a wide variety of programming languages, developer frameworks and application services. Pivotal is a subsidiary of Dell. At the Analytics layer, INFINITE has deployed the Pivotal Big Data Suite( BDS) services for PCF which include Pivotal HAWQ, Pivotal HD, Redis, RabbitMQ and SpringXD. Security is a key requirement for IIoT and the INFINITE testbed offers industry leading security solutions from RSA, a Dell subsidiary. The INFINITE testbed offers local and global connectivity through a dedicated mobile network Machine to Machine( M2M) Access Point Name( APN). Asavie aggregates connectivity from sensors, gateways and devices across multiple diverse networks into one single network, managing and securing the data as it flows to and from INFINITE. The INFINITE team are also developing relationships with a specialist sensor companies.
8. IIC INTERACTIONS
INIFINITE was approved( January 2015) by the Industrial Internet Consortium Steering Committee before the Industrial Internet Reference Architecture( IIRA) and the Industrial Internet Security Framework( IISF) were released. The INFINITE team plan to revisit the testbed alignment with the IIRA and the IISF to ensure compliance. They will also feedback their evidence-based experiences and many lessons learned from the use case deployments to the Technology and Security Working Groups who are charged with refining and updating the IIRA and IISF documentation for the IIC.
There is recognized value in being an approved IIC testbed, especially with the growing recognition of the importance of the IIRA and the IISF within IIoT. For some testbeds such as INFINITE which emerged prior to the IIRA and IISF publications, the future evaluations based upon these resources will provide the opportunity to showcase the testbed’ s alignment with the architectural considerations of the IIRA and incorporate the guidance on IIoT security developed in the IISF. The testbed team looks forward to showcasing its compliance with the IIRA and IISF especially as these technical documents have gained recognition.
9. CONCLUSION
INFINITE is an example of how diverse technologies such as sensors, connectivity, cloud, analytics and security can create new business models and value chains in the Industrial Internet of Things. In order to be effective, INFINITE requires strong partnerships between leading technology providers and business expertise from different domains and sectors to work on the common goal of seamless and interoperable Infrastructure. The innovations developing and in action in the INFINITE Testbed and its many use cases are delivering impacts including quality
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