What’ s New at the IIC
takes time, of course, at least six months, we think. Appropriately for the first half of 2018, our focus is energy and utilities.
Because these verticals and systems are global, we must partner with bodies that are experts in that area. This includes technical work, of course, but it also involves stimulating interest. This is the background for the first event of our Global Event Series focused on Energy and Smart Grid, partnering with the US-based National Institute of Standards and Technology( NIST) and hosted by The MITRE Corporation. The Global Event Series will continue with its focus on Energy on May 25 th in Espoo, Finland, immediately following the 2Q2018 Member Meeting in Helsinki. Additional information on this and all upcoming IIC events may be found on our Resource Hub at www. iiconsortium. org / events.
GROUP ACTIVITIES
IIC’ s newly formed Automotive and Automotive Security Task Groups fired up with their first full member-meeting sessions in Reston. The task groups will provide IIoT guidance to the automotive industry vertical and direction to the IIC’ s activities in automotive.
The Security Working Group met with IIC liaison organizations with the intent of making progress toward turning requirements into standards. This group also published an Endpoint Security Best Practices whitepaper, a concise document that equipment manufacturers, critical infrastructure operators, integrators and others can reference to implement the countermeasures and controls they need to ensure the safety, security and reliability of IoT endpoint devices.
The Safety Task Group published a whitepaper addressing critical aspect of trustworthiness and a major concern in many IIoT systems. Safety is defined as“ the condition of the system operating without causing unacceptable risk of physical injury or of damage to the health of people, either directly, or indirectly as a result of damage to property or to the environment”. The Key Safety Challenges for the IIoT whitepaper highlights four key challenges, explains why the current safety frameworks and approaches are inadequate, and recommends how the greater IIoT community should address them.
The Smart Factory Task Group offered a webinar entitled“ Create a Green Patch in Your Brownfield: Getting Started with IoT in Manufacturing” as a companion to the recently released whitepaper on the topic.
The Business Strategy Task Group released the video interview“ Capitalizing on the IIoT: Using the Business Strategy & Innovation Framework.” The video highlights the IIC Business Strategy and Innovation Framework and how its approach of offering guidance and best practices derived from industry experts facilitates an organized, disciplined approach to moving forward with IIoT.
The Liaison Working Group formed an Open Source Task Group that will identify open sourcerelated requirements in IIC deliverables; including open source requirements identified in the I 3 C initiative, technical reports, toolkits, use cases, testbeds and best practices.
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