What’s New at the IIC?
T HE H IVE OF A CTIVITIES
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is set to transform business models in all markets.
Collaboration and mastery of new skills, such as those within IIoT, will be essential to business
success. With over 260 member organizations, and growing, the Industrial Internet Consortium
(IIC) is a hive of activity. And the hive provides a unique opportunity for collaboration and
experiential learning not found anywhere else.
IIC Quarterly Member Meetings (2017: Reston, VA; Berlin, Germany, Singapore, and Burlingame,
CA) provide an opportunity to network face-to-face with other members, gain new ideas, and
complete work within the groups. Working Groups, Task Groups and Contributing Groups work
virtually between quarterly meetings to keep projects and deliverables moving toward
completion. This first half of 2017 saw the publication of the Industrial Internet Connectivity
Framework (IICF), the Business Strategy and Innovation Framework (BSIF), the latest update to
the Industrial Internet Reference Architecture (IIRA) and a technical whitepaper, Industrial
Analytics: the Engine Driving the IIoT Revolution.
framework to develop interoperable IIoT
systems for diverse applications across a
C OMMUNICATIONS & C ONNECTIVITY
broad spectrum of industrial verticals in the
Connectivity refers to the infrastructure to
public and private sectors to achieve the true
enable
communication
between
promise of IIoT. Its importance is
participants. Without connectivity, there is
summarized by one of our members in this
no communication. Learn more about the
3-minute video.
Industrial Internet Connectivity Framework
from this video.
A DVANCED A NALYTICS
E MERGING O PPORTUNITIES
Additionally, members of the Industrial
Analytics Task Group have recently
published a technical whitepaper titled,
“Industrial Analytics: the Engine Driving the
IIoT Revolution.” Advanced analytics is at the
core of this next-generation level of
integration and, when applied to machine
and process data, provides new insights and
intelligence to optimize decision making
significantly
and
enable
intelligent
operations leading to transformational
business outcomes and social value. If data
is the new fuel, data analytics is the new
engine.
As the IIoT transforms businesses and
changes the competitive landscape,
collaboration and mastery of new skills will
be essential to business success. The
Business
Strategy
and
Innovation
Framework (BSIF) provides a high-level
identification and analysis of issues that any
enterprise will need to address and offers an
organized, disciplined approach to moving
forward successfully.
R EFERENCE A RCHITECTURE
First published in 2015, the IIRA addresses
the need for a common architecture
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