IIC Debuts IIC Resource Hub

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) announced the IIC Resource Hub, a new interface to the industrial internet of things (IIoT) industry resources developed by the IIC, and a web-based tool called IIoT Project Explorer that guides users through the analysis and planning of their own IIoT projects.  The IIC Resource Hub not only references IIC resources including knowledge and expertise from IIC foundational documents, testbed insights, toolkits, demos and relationships with global standards and industry groups, but also provides actionable intelligence. It is designed for use across industries and among technical and business stakeholders in the IIoT. 

“There is nothing like the IIC Resource Hub on the market now,” says Dirk Slama, vice president of business development, Bosch Software Innovations and Chair of the IIC Steering Committee. “Members of the IIC have developed these essential resources for the industry so project managers and system architects don’t have to rely solely on intuition and prototyping in unchartered territory as they do today. The IIC Resource Hub will help lead to successful IoT implementations and facilitate the multi-billion dollar opportunities of the IIoT.”

The IIC Resource Hub comprises the following:

• IIC Body of Knowledge: This includes collaborative resources that have been developed, tested and published by industry leaders from the IIC membership, including: testbed overviews and outcomes, Insight Reports, IIC foundational documents (Industrial Internet Reference Architecture, Industrial Internet Security Framework, Industrial Internet Connectivity Framework, Business Strategy and Innovation Framework, Industrial Internet of Things Analytics Framework, and Vocabulary Technical Report), and select white papers.
• The IIoT Project Explorer: This is a web-based methodology for creating an assessment of an IoT project. The IIoT Project Explorer enables users to scope a solution and create a mutual basis for communication between technical and business project stakeholders. It also directs a quantitative method for developing implementation, rollout and growth plans. 
• Ecosystem Directory: This is a mapping of the IIoT ecosystem that categorizes IIoT products, services, researchers and end users, making experts searchable by their expertise.

“The newly launched IIC Resource Hub offers much needed clarity around IIoT project management and offers guided access to valuable resources for accelerating industrial IoT deployments,” says Dima Tokar, co-founder of MachNation, an IIoT platform and services testing and research company.

Other Explorers, under development as web-based toolkits will provide assistance with maturity modeling, security assessment and interoperability challenges.  

The IIC Resource Hub is an essential tool helping IIoT stakeholders strategize, analyze and plan IIoT projects. The IIC Resource Hub delivers actionable intelligence and is free and accessible at hub.iiconsortium.org/.

The Industrial Internet Consortium is a membership program transforming business and society by accelerating the industrial internet of things (IIoT). The IIC delivers an IIoT in which the world’s systems and devices are securely connected and controlled to deliver transformational outcomes. The Industrial Internet Consortium is a program of the Object Management Group (OMG). 

Sources: Press materials received from the company.