The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) — which, along with Industrie 4.0 is developing the framework for the Industrial Internet of Things — has published the second edition of its Journal of Innovation, a biannual publication written by IIC members, featuring articles about “Industrial Internet technologies and services that are disrupting the global economy.”
The theme of the 76 page June 2016 edition is “How IIoT is disrupting markets and the economics behind the disruption.”
It contains the following articles
- “Toward a Safe and Secure Medical Internet of Things”
- Hamed Soroush, Real-Time Innovations
- David Arney, MD PnP Interoperability Program, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Julian Goldman, MD, Partners HealthCare System and MD PnP Interoperability Program
- “The Internet of Things in Retail: Redefining Brick and Mortar Stores”
- Geeta Rohra, IoT Practice, Tata Consultancy Services
- “New Service-provider and Business-model Disruption in the Industrial Internet of Things”
- Rafael Cepeda, MBA, PhD, InterDigital Europe
- Ken Figueredo, MBA, PhD, InterDigital Solutions
- “The Emerging IIC Verticals Taxonomy Landscape”
- Robert Martin, The MITRE Corporation
- Aaron Soellinger, Sentient Science
- “Manufacturing – Opportunities for Innovation”
- Foram Mehta, Tata Consultancy Services
- Nitin Gupta, Tata Consultancy Services
- “Industrial Internet: Towards Interoperability and Composability”
- Shi-Wan Lin, Thingswise
- Bradford W. Miller, GE Global Research
The IIC has more than 240 members from 30 countries. It was founded by AT&T, Cisco, General Electric, IBM, and Intel in March 2014 to “Catalyse and coordinate the priorities and enabling technologies of the Industrial Internet.”
Converging IIoT reference architectures
The IIC and the Germany-originated Industrie 4.0 movement have each developed a reference architectures for the Industrial Internet of Things: the Reference Architecture Model for Industrie 4.0 (RAMI4.0) and the Industrial Internet Reference Architecture (IIRA). In March 2016 they met to discuss the potential alignment of their efforts.
The IIC reported: “The meeting was a success, with a common recognition of the complementary nature of the two models, an initial draft mapping showing the direct relationships between elements of the models, and a clear roadmap to ensure future interoperability. Additional possible topics included collaboration in the areas of IIC testbeds and I4.0 test facility infrastructures, as well as standardisation, architectures and business outcomes in the Industrial Internet.
The meeting had been proposed by Bosch and SAP, which are members of the steering committees of both organisations. Following the meting an informal discovery group comprising Bosch, Cisco, IIC, Pepperl + Fuchs, SAP, Siemens, Steinbeis Institute and ThingsWise was formed to continue exploring potential alignment between I4.0 and IIC.
After a subsequent meeting in Chicago in May 2016, the IIC announced that the two organisations had “laid a foundation for working on concrete results with a joint roadmap [with] the main focus on the areas of standardisation and joint testbeds/test environments. … [and] follow-up meetings have been scheduled in order to build up on the positive dynamics of the meeting.”
