A Practical Guide to Using the Industrial Internet Connectivity Framework
1. Do you know what “ICT” stands for and
does it describe what you do?
2. Is the cellular network your primary
connection technology?
3. Are your target applications largely
composed of moving parts?
4. Can the components of the system
tolerate intermittent connections and
loosely-controlled latencies?
5. Will the system leverage services
provided by a communications provider
such as a telco?
they usually also heavily leverage LAN,
local wireless or WAN networking
technologies in their designs.
3. There is a potential future market for 5G
wireless integration of fixed assets such
as manufacturing cells. However, this
technology is still years away. oneM2M
performs best for mobile assets. One
especially powerful aspect is that
oneM2M abstracts differences in
protocols to those devices. Thus, it can
integrate different ways to connect to
similar devices.
4. Cellular mobile systems are not reliably
connected. Thus, applications must not
fail when communications are offline for
a few seconds or minutes.
5. oneM2M system designers assume a
cloud backend in their designs. The core
of oneM2M is the standard services layer
that is provided by a telco or its partners.
These questions differ in character from the
questions about the previous technologies.
OneM2M results from cooperation among
many mobile wireless providers. It targets
networks of mobile devices that
communicate mostly or only through the
base-station infrastructure.
The following points examine why oneM2M
is implied by these questions:
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1. Surprisingly, most target users of DDS
and OPC UA cannot even correctly define
the name of oneM2M’s target industry
as Information and Communication
Technology (ICT). There are, of course,
exceptions. But, if you consider yourself
in the ICT industry, then you need to
consider OneM2M: It was designed for
you.
2. The core design of oneM2M is to define
services that mobile devices can use to
cooperate and integrate. If you are going
to use those services, you need to
connect to