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IIC rebrands and refocuses – moves from IoT tech blueprints to IoT business gains

The Industrial Internet Consortium has rebranded as the Industry IoT Consortium. The IIC acronym remains. Explanation for the name change was limited, but claims some “new direction” and arguably reflects the technology sector’s acceptance of the internet of things (IoT) as the common technological...

Li-Fi fixes shortcomings of 5G for industrial IoT, says Industrial Internet Consortium

In research for a new report on industrial AR, Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Farid Bichareh, smart factory chair at the Industrial Internet Consortium and chief technology officer at research and engineering firm AASA (and also at subsidiary LiFi solution provider 01LightComm). Bichareh...

Crossing the IT/OT divide – co-configuration and real scale (part 4)

This article continues from here. It is an excerpt from a full report, called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – from co-creation to co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale’. The report, part of Enterprise IoT Insights’ ongoing Digital Factory Solutions series, is...

Crossing the IT/OT divide – bridge-building and co-creation (part 3)

This article continues from here. It is an excerpt from a full report, called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – from co-creation to co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale’. The report, part of Enterprise IoT Insights’ ongoing Digital Factory Solutions series, is...

Crossing the IT/OT divide – the blame game and the magic box (part 2)

This article continues from here. It is an excerpt from a full report, called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – from co-creation to co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale’. The report, part of Enterprise IoT Insights’ ongoing Digital Factory Solutions series, is...

Crossing the IT/OT divide – IT solutions and OT problems (part 1)

This is an excerpt from a full report called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – from co-creation to co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale’. The report, part of Enterprise IoT Insights’ ongoing Digital Factory Solutions series, is available to download (for free)...

IIC intros industrial IoT match-making to connect tech buyers with tech sellers

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has introduced a new pilot programme called Industry Connect Service (ICS) to connect enterprises seeking digital change with experts in the field. It works like a industrial IoT dating service to connect tech buyers with tech vendors, to explore bespoke...

‘The future bubbles up’ – IIC on the principles and practicalities of industrial IoT

Stephen Mellor picks up where he left off, and where we left him: the challenge with industrial IoT to gain widespread adoption is as much to do with interpretation as with deployment. Different industrial disciplines have different demands, even if they sometimes appear the...

‘5G? My indifference is unbounded’ – IIC on the bigger battles for industrial IoT

This is just the beginning, says the Industrial Internet Consortium. Preoccupations with technology are only ever fleeting. The stakes are higher; the future is still being mapped out. 5G – so what? Who cares, really, so long as it works? Connectivity is a utility...

What’s the difference between an IoT sensor and an IoT actuator?

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has added new definitions of ‘IoT sensor’ and ‘IoT actuator’ to its updated ‘dictionary’ of technical definitions for the industrial IoT (IIoT) sector. These terms describe similar IoT devices with dissimilar definitions, it says. We consider these definitions, below. The...

There are only three IoT use cases, and one doesn’t exist yet – simplicity, scale, and the state of ‘things’

IoT Solutions World Congress, in its fifth year (2019), has the whiff of MWC about it. It’s in Barcelona, at the same venue, and the faces are familiar -- with a number of the European telecoms giants, big cloud brands, and systems integrators scattered...

IIC releases AI contract tool, IIoT security guides and IIoT maturity gauge

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) is piloting a contract automation tool that uses artificial intelligence to negotiate between industrial companies, without human involvement, to arrive at contract terms both sides can settle on. In recent weeks, the organisation has also issued comprehensive and constructive guides on trust and...

The Industrial Internet Consortium inks deal with the Trusted IoT Alliance

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and the Trusted IoT Alliance (TIoTA) announced they have signed an agreement to work together to advance their shared interests in the industrial internet field. Under the terms of the agreement, the IIC and the Trusted IoT Alliance will work together to maximize interoperability,...

Industrial Internet Consortium, OpenFog conclude merger process

The combined organization will focus on industrial, internet including the promotion of best practices for fog and edge computing The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and the OpenFog Consortium have concluded the details to combine the two consortia. Effective immediately, the organizations will work together under the IIC...

IIC shows how to optimise assets in smart buildings, machines in smart factories

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has announced results from a pair of testbeds investigating, alternatively, artificial intelligence (AI) for smart buildings management and ways to connect up old factories to new smart manufacturing tools. In the first case, Dell EMC and Toshiba have developed an...

Appetite for smart manufacturing grows, but the market remains troubled and confused

The appetite for new digital technologies is growing among manufacturers, with certain brands in certain sectors in certain regions experiencing a considerable uplift in performance. But the take-up of smart manufacturing solutions remains tentative, as companies are unsure how to start with digital change...

IIC brings in Australian IoT Alliance to help hammer out IIoT standards

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and the Internet of Things Alliance Australia (IoTAA) have agreed to work together to harmonise aspects of the industrial internet to help improve the digital economy. The pair said the two parties will combine their standardisation efforts in order to...

Eight crucial technologies to drive the digital revolution in smart manufacturing

The move to a ‘lights-out’ factory has already begun, but the developing transition requires an overhaul of industrial facilities, equipment, systems and people if it is to go the distance. Transformation of the manufacturing industry, or ‘vertical’ in service-provider parlance, must also make way...

IIC sets up automation testbed for print industry with Fujitsu, IBM, RTI, Toshiba

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has established a ‘smart printing factory testbed’ in collaboration with Fujitsu, IBM, Real-Time Innovations (RTI) and Toshiba to develop technologies to help the printing industry automate production and maintenance processes. The IIC said the group is using the testbed to...

The IIoT intervew: “Edge computing is the death of the cloud as we know it,” says IIC

Where is the edge of the data network, where compute power increasingly resides? This is the question industrial operatives are asking, as they look to combine advanced connectivity technologies and analytics techniques to bring new intelligence to their systems and processes. It is the...

Where is the IIoT edge? Four points on the edge-compute continuum

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has mapped out a “continuum” of edge computing in industrial settings, with the ‘edge’ variously located at certain points of remove from the data source depending on the technical requirements of the use case. For simplicity, it summarises four...

IIC releases industrial-grade ‘cookbook’ for edge computing

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has issued a white paper with practical guidance on edge computing in industrial internet-of-things (IIoT) settings. The publication seeks to define edge computing architectural functions and drivers, highlight key use case considerations. The IIC paper, called IIC Introduction to Edge...

Siemens to collaborate in Hong Kong smart city initiative

The German company said that the smart city hub will be powered by Siemens’ cloud-based IoT OS MindSphere Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) has signed an agreement with Siemens for the establishment of a smart city digital hub in Hong Kong Science...

Industrial Internet Consortium focuses on smart manufacturing

The agreement with MESA will focus on interoperability, portability and security for the industrial internet The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), a global organization seeking to accelerate the industrial internet of things (IIoT), has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association...