IIC Journal of Innovation 4th Edition | Page 43

Outcomes, Insights, and Best Practices from IIC Testbeds: Track & Trace Testbed Services, 1 which includes a complete summary of the application of the IIRA to the Track and Trace Testbed and an analysis of the testbed from the BSSL WG point of view. assist in identifying, through its liaison relationships, the standardization bodies with whom the testbed team could work to develop new standards. For phase two, the IIC’s Industrial Internet Security Framework was available to the testbed team and was used as a checklist to assess the cybersecurity of this Industrial Internet system – a critical consideration in manufacturing and supply chain. Figure 2, below, offers a graphical depiction of these interfaces in a layered approach which also reflects the increasing complexity of a standards stack. The items on the left side reflect the tools and assets being tracked. The elements on the right side reflect the corresponding enterprise system. The arrows in the middle represent the APIs. Three horizontal layers have been identified. One layer, which is completely generic and agnostic, is a general purpose localization API that applies both to forklifts as well as process tools. And here, the Track and Trace Testbed only differentiates between indoor and outdoor, but it can be applied to different kinds of assets, and also different kinds of localization technologies. S TANDARDIZATION From the point of view of standardization, the testbed objectives can best be described with a diagram depicting the correlations between the tools and assets being tracked and the corresponding enterprise systems. The testbed team is trying to extract reusable interfaces that would open this testbed to solution components from different vendors. In analyzing both horizontal and vertical types of interfaces, the testbed team has not found any established standards. The IIC could then The testbed team has discovered there are many different localization technologies based on cameras, laser, ultra-wide band, Figure 2: Track & Trace Open Source & Standardization 1 www.amazon.com/Enterprise-IoT-Strategies-Practices-Connected/dp/1491924837 & www.Enterprise-IoT.org 42 June 2017