Connectivity Framework
1 : Introduction
Chapter 8 highlights the standards that meet the requirements of core connectivity , and are suitable for serving as core connectivity standards .
Chapter 9 provides guidelines on how to open up domain-specific connectivity technologies , via a core connectivity standard . It recommends completing the worksheets to identify the core connectivity standard closest to the domain-specific connectivity technology . It also makes some suggestions for a core connectivity standard based on the primary functional domain ( see Figure 1-1 ) of applicability for the connectivity technology .
1.5 AUDIENCE
The intended audience of this document is system architects , solution architects , technology evaluators , technology decision makers , business strategists and business investment decision makers .
1.6 USE
The document is intended to be used a guide map , that can be read in its entirety in sequential order . Chapter 7 can be skimmed on the first pass , and serves as a ready reference for a deeper dive into a specific technology .
The worksheet in chapter 6 is meant as a tool for practitioners . It can be used to map out connectivity technologies of interest , in the rich landscape of connectivity .
We do not take a prescriptive approach . Instead , we provide , in the hands of system architects , a tool ( see chapter 6 , assessment template worksheets ) that , given a system ’ s requirements , will help determine the most suitable connectivity technologies and core connectivity standards .
1.7 RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER IIC DOCUMENTS
The ‘ Industrial Internet of Things , Volume G5 : Connectivity Framework ’ ( IICF ) is one of many framework documents of the IIC technical publications ( see Figure 1-3 ) that extend from the Industrial Internet Reference Architecture ( IIRA ) 1 .
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