IIC Journal of Innovation 5th Edition | Page 83

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: RESTful HTTP 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