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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See [ IIC-IIRA2015 ] IIC: PUB: G5: V1.0: PB: 20170228- 12-