I²M²—The Future of Industrial Internet Monetization
Figure 6: Detailed IIoT System Business Structure (adapted from (IIC-IISF))
during manufacturing between all these
Component Builders. Traditional payment
methods do not guarantee that for example
the software builder of the BIOS will receive
the agreed amount for each sold desktop
computer, as it really depends on the
honesty of the computer desktop
component builder.
As shown in Figure 6, Components can be
hardware, software or services that, for
example, are running in the cloud. These
Components are not just installed in the
System, side by side, but may be embedded
(or stacked) into each other. Think about a
Component desktop computer which has a
hardware component CPU board with
another component CPU but also has
software as firmware (BIOS) and probably
access to a cloud service to update the BIOS,
all typically delivered from different
builders. Figure 7 shows the relationship
between the three types of Components and
the delivery and payment flow.
The owner of this exemplary desktop
computer does not see the complex money
flow between the builders of all these
Components but sees the paid amount for
the computer when it is finally spread out
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