A Practical Guide to Using the Industrial Internet Connectivity Framework
CHOOSING A CONNECTIVITY STANDARD
In one key table, the IICF outlines the example use cases and application spaces of the various core connectivity options. The intention, and the effect, is to provide useful guidance to architects struggling with the confusing arrays of vendor and advocate claims. The table is reproduced below in the IIC Use Case Examples figure.
Let’ s take this process a bit further. It is possible to ask a few very simple questions for each technology option and quickly narrow the choices. These questions may oversimplify the problem, but they are a great starting point. The IICF identifies four potential“ core connectivity standards:” DDS, OPC UA, oneM2M, and RESTful HTTP. We analyze these in this section. MQTT does not qualify as an IICF“ core connectivity standard” because it does not have a standard typing system required for
Table 8-2 Non-overlapping system aspect examples addressed by the potential IIoT connectivity core standards IIC Use Case Examples. The IIoT space is so big that the primary users of the different technologies don’ t speak the same language. In practice, there are few applications that could reasonably make alternative choices. The real problem in the industry is the lack of understanding of the options. The IIC experts sorted the technologies into very clearly different“ boxes”. The choice is nearly as simple as identifying which box most sounds like you.
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