What’s New at the IIC
The Mining Task Group published an on-demand webinar “Applying IoT in Mining: Current
Capabilities & Future Pathways.” This is the first webinar of a series focused on the challenges
and opportunities of the industrial internet in mining.
L IAISONS
The Liaison Working Group continues to approve and pursue strategic technical relationships.
There are thirty-five liaisons in place, one liaison newly approved and more are being considered.
Joint workshops are held from time to time between the IIC and a liaison organization. A liaison
workshop was held with oneM2M on February 8 th . The joint workshop explored:
interoperability between emerging horizontal technologies that will enable scalability across
vertical industries,
how the IIC testbed program is helping to drive standards development and delivering
insights into specific industry requirements and
complex challenges, best practices and reasonable expectations for short and long-term
success.
Two new strategic liaison agreements were signed: The National Electrical Manufacturers
Association (NEMA), to align efforts to maximize interoperability, portability, security and privacy
for the industrial Internet. The second is the MulteFire Alliance in which we will work together to
promote the digital economy by harmonizing various aspects in the fields of the industrial
internet.
T ESTBEDS
Testbeds provide an environment for companies and multi-disciplinary stakeholders to team up
and prove out complex systems and gain real-world experience. With 26 approved testbeds (and
more in the pipeline), participants are generating best practices, recommendations and priorities
for standards organizations. In our first-quarter meeting, there were fifteen testbed update
presentations, along with concept testbed introductions and testbed platform presentations.
The Testbed Working Group recently announced the following:
Deep Learning Facility, targeting buildings & facilities and energy & utilities market segments.
The testbed partners and IIC members are: Dell EMC, Toshiba and Wipro.
Connected Workforce Safety will demonstrate how IIoT can be employed to improve worker
safety and worker well-being, while facilitating safety compliance and enabling safe work
practices. In turn, this testbed ensures safe work operations in industrial workplaces.
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