Industrial Internet Ecosystem
R EGIONAL T EAMS
Regional teams facilitate local IIC activities in native languages and overcome cultural and time
zone differences to accelerate the adoption of the industrial internet. Two regional teams have
been established so far; the Indian Regional Team (IRT) and the German Regional Team (GRT).
The IRT held its first meeting on 2018-05-10 at the NASSCOM Center of Excellence in IoT in
Bangalore, India. The IRT also hosted a public forum on the topic of Accelerating the Industrial
Internet on 2018-05-11. The GRT, established in 2015, continues to conduct numerous activities
with the goal of connecting German IIC members and supporting the IIC’s visibility in the German
market. During this quarter the GRT held a second workshop of the GRT IIC research group where
results of the researchers and IIC artifacts were presented.
Regional teams are yet another example of ecosystem work. Contacts and more information
about regional teams are available at the Regional Teams site.
T ESTBEDS
Testbeds provide an environment for companies and multi-disciplinary stakeholders to team up,
prove out complex systems and gain real-world experience. With 29 approved IIC testbeds and
more in the pipeline, participants are generating best practices, recommendations and priorities
for standards organizations. The meeting had 16 testbed-update presentations along with five
concept testbed introductions and testbed platform presentations.
The Testbed Working Group recently announced the new Optimizing Manufacturing Processes
with Artificial Intelligence Testbed for the Manufacturing: Industrial Automation (automotive
components) market segment. Wanxiang Group is the testbed lead and its supporting members
are CAICT (China Academy of Information and Communications Technology), China Unicom, Dell
EMC, Thingswise and Xilinx.
P UBLICATIONS
Four new resources were published since the March edition of the Journal of Innovation. Two
publications specifically highlight testbed insights while two white papers elaborate on security
concepts and are built on concepts of the Industrial Internet Security Framework (IISF).
Testbed Insight Papers
The IIC Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) for Flexible Manufacturing Testbed published Time-
Sensitive Networks for Flexible Manufacturing Testbed: Characteristics of Converged Traffic
Types. The paper describes industrial traffic types that the IIC TSN for Flexible Manufacturing
Testbed supports and enhances the traffic type descriptions from the IEEE 802.1Q specification.
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