Industry IoT Consortium

Edge computing, fog computing, mist, cloudlets, thing-to-cloud continuum and fog-to-cloud continuum, elasticity, multi-tenancy, data gravity. When it comes to the state of computing infrastructure and operations for the IoT, these are just the tip of the iceberg of terms that have percolated to the front page of today’s tech lexicon. If you’ve ever wondered what it all means, how it’s all put together and what the benefits are, you’ve come to the right place.... Read more →

Three of the main goals of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)community are (1) clarify the rich but often confusing landscape of IIoT connectivity, (2) set a stable long-term foundation for IIoT interoperability and architecture strategy, (3) provide practical, useful and tangible guidance for IIoT connectivity requirements assessment, technology evaluation and selection. The ‘Industrial Internet Connectivity Framework’ (IICF), published by the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) in February 2017, accomplishes these goals.... Read more →