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
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www.amazon.com/Enterprise-IoT-Strategies-Practices-Connected/dp/1491924837 & www.Enterprise-IoT.org
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