Industry IoT Consortium

IIC members have identified many of the best practices and key challenges that lie ahead and summarized them in a technical white paper, Smart Factory Applications in Discrete Manufacturing. Authored by the IIC Smart Factory Task Group, the whitepaper provides a comprehensive summary of the benefits and business value of the Smart Factory, a description of the core IoT technologies, and discussion of the barriers to adoption.... Read more →

A new IDC FutureScape offers top 10 predictions for the Worldwide IoT in 2017. The research evaluates 10 emerging trends and ranks them in terms of their likely impact across the enterprise and the time it will take each prediction to go mainstream (meaning the middle of bellcurve of adoption). This blog breaks it down and summarizes the trends.... Read more →

Much has been written lately about IIoT endpoints and their many potential security vulnerabilities. As defined by the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), endpoints are devices that employ both computation and communications resources and expose functional capabilities. A thorough understanding of these vulnerabilities in relation to the IIoT system is crucial in addressing the architectural considerations required to protect endpoints.... Read more →