Outcomes, Insights, and Best Practices from IIC Testbeds: Intelligent Urban Water Supply Testbed
latest Big Data, Machine Learning and Cloud
Computing technologies into a turn-key
solution for IIoT. It is among the very first
systems in the industry by design, capable of
performing on-the-fly analysis of live data
streams at low latency distributed in the
Cloud, on the Edge or in IoT gateways.
Thingswise also provides guidance in overall
system design and advanced analytics.
IIC T ECHNICAL F OUNDATION
The foundational technical documents
produced by the IIC have been instrumental
in this testbed. The architectures in the
testbed are based upon the IIC’s Industrial
Internet Reference Architecture (IIRA). Since
the approval of this testbed, other IIC
frameworks have been in development or
released, such as the Industrial Internet
Connectivity Framework (IICF). They too
provide good guidance in designing the
testbed system.
China Academy of Information and
Communications
Technology
(CAICT)
contributes to the testbed from standard
and security perspectives. CAICT has worked
with WPG in building security models,
evaluating security risk and helping WPG
enable security in end-to-end systems.
Security is complex and of the utmost
importance when it comes to systems
involving essential infrastructure such as
water supply. As the system matures,
commands may be issued to the system,
especially during diagnostics or repair work.
An intruder who penetrates the system in
the cloud would have an opportunity to
affect large areas of the water supply
operations, including interruption of service
or damage of the equipment. On the other
hand, an intruder who penetrates a pump
would be able to inject falsified data into the
network about water quality or usage. The
testbed works on how to prevent the system
from being penetrated and in the event of
penetration, ho w to limit the impact of the
actions an intruder may perform. The IIC’s
Industrial Internet Security Framework (IISF)
has been essential, in terms of analyzing
security requirements, assessing threats and
building security models to prevent the
threats.
Looking back, the testbed appreciates that
the IIC ecosystem provides an environment
that enables stakeholders to come together,
share resources and work cooperatively to
achieve common goals.
1. The IIC enables Operational
Technologies (OT) and Information
Technologies (IT) domain expertise,
business
models,
technology
providers and system implementers
to come together.
2. The ideas that have been shared and
discussed in the IIC, both in
technology and business, are very
important. The significance of these
ideas may go unnoticed at times, but
with all of these discussions and
presentations, the ideas gradually
seep into our mindset, making their
way into our business model
considerations
or
technology
implementations.
IIC Journal of Innovation
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