Outcomes, Insights, and Best Practices from IIC Testbeds: Track & Trace Testbed
algorithms then detect how the forklift is moving by the changing patterns on the floor. This is what is called inertial localization. It uses relative distance that reduces the number of markers needed on the floor.
A laser technology also exists, outside the features of this testbed, which bases the localization on the laser technology, and can be used either / or. There is a testbed and there is a technology which gives forklifts the possibility to move out of the building. Markers could also be used on the floor outside, or use a GPS device, which then uses GPS information for the localization. The localization technology on the device, on the asset, is much more precise, much more accurate and does not depend on line of sight. There are many possibilities for related applications using inertial localization.
IIC RESOURCES AND INTERACTIONS
When the testbed began, the IIC’ s Industrial Internet Reference Architecture( IIRA) was in its early stages of drafting. As the IIRA developed, the testbed team engaged in many helpful exchanges with the IIRA authors. The IIRA is a work product of the
IIC’ s Technology Working Group and this testbed team worked closely with the IIRA authors to develop and apply the domainspecific views which convey the fundamental principles of the IIRA. When phase two began, it was much easier to reuse the key concepts that had been developed in the first phase. For example, when onboarding SAP, the testbed team was able to develop a shared language and share the same understanding of the reference architecture. This enabled the collaboration process to move forward much more quickly than if the IIRA had not already been established and accepted as the common architecture framework for developing interoperable IIoT systems.
Another working group of the IIC is the Business Strategy and Solution Lifecycle Working Group, or BSSL WG, of which Dirk Slama is co-chair. This Track and Trace Testbed was used to help shape the key elements of BSSL WG, in particular, the planbuild-run perspective of BSSL WG( See Figure 1, below). Dirk is also the co-author of the book, Enterprise IoT: Strategies and Best Practices for Connected Products and
Figure 1: BSSL WG Plan-Build-Run Perspective
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