School of Computing Science and Engineering

Course Code: CSIO4700 Course Name: IoT for Industries

IIoT Reference Architecture

Faculty Name: Mr. C.Vairavel Program Name:

 Prerequisite/Recapitulations

• Basic knowledge about IoT

 Objectives

• TO Study about Reference Architecture of IIoT

 Introduction

• The constant churning wheel of New Industrial IoT Platforms from vendors new
and old can be staggering for those working to specify overall systems that
address these opportunities.
• Whether it be Bosch or Cisco, GE or Hitachi, Honeywell or Rockwell
Automation, the various offerings stagger in their feature sets, and force the
customer to speak different languages.
• This is unfair to the to the specifier, as the definitions, structures, and points of
views all vary greatly.
• In working with clients in the industrial space, we were requested to speak a
common language and now we have one!
• The Industrial Internet Consortium published in 2017 a new revision to their
Industrial IoT Reference Architecture document (the IIRA).
 What is the IIRA?

• An architecture set at the highest level, the IIRA offers models, definitions and a
well-defined set of vocabulary.
• The document presents a core set of standards and a common ground for IoT
participants to frame development, documentation, communication and
deployment.
• The IIRA is at home in the midst of the battle between OT and IT
• Two already warring camps – those that manage sprawling enterprise-level IT
architectures and services, and those that run real-world-connected industrial
control systems, have long ago marked out their territories.
• The phrase “Industrial Internet of Things” alone demands this gap be bridged
and that these two parties calm themselves, and at the same time promises a
better future for all
 Why work together?

• Riding on continued advancement of computation and communication technologies, the

industrial internet can dramatically transform industrial control systems in two major themes:
• a) Increasing local collaborative autonomy: New sensing and detection technologies
provide more and more accurate data.
Greater embedded computational power enables more advanced analytics of these data
and better models of the state of a physical system and the environment in which it
operates. The result of this combination transforms control systems from merely automatic
to autonomous, allowing them to react appropriately even when the system’s designers did
not anticipate the current system state.
• b) Increasing system optimization through global orchestration: Collecting sensor data
from across the control systems and applying analytics, including models developed
through machine learning, to these data, we can gain insight to a business’s operations.
With these insights, we can improve decision-making and optimize the system operations
globally through automatic and autonomous orchestration.
 Industrial Internet Reference Architecture

• These two camps get equal consideration in their roles in the IIoT architecture
through the IIRA. The beginning of the IIRA document starts out with
VIEWPOINTS.
 Industrial Internet Reference Architecture

• The viewpoint is crucial to the IIRA design.

• The IIRA design starts with defining the shapes and forms of an Industrial
Internet of Things Architecture by starting with the viewpoints of the
stakeholders.
• Using the IIRA as a guide to develop a single case specific architecture
document, viewpoints are tied to the entire lifecycle process of the IIoT
architecture to be developed.
 Relationship among IRRA Viewpoints , Application scope
and System Life Cycle Process
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 Functional Domains

• As the IIRA progresses, the Viewpoints are tied into systems and classified into
five functional domains:

• Control domain
• Operations domain
• Information domain
• Application domain
• Business domain
 Functional Domains, Crosscutting Functions and System
Characteristics
• Control is highly valued, and
made to respond to not only
physical sensing, but also
operational and application data
(ie. a fully defined system).
 Three-Tier IIoT System Architecture

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 Mapping Between a three-tier Architecture to the
functional Domains
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 References

1. Vijay Madisetti and Arshdeep Bahga, “Internet of Things (A Hands-on-

Approach)”, 1st Edition, VPT, 2014
2. Michahelles, “Architecting the Internet of Things”, ISBN 978-3- 642-19156-5 e-
ISBN 978-3-642-19157-2, Springer
3. Francis daCosta, “Rethinking the Internet of Things: A Scalable Approach to
Connecting Everything”, 1st Edition, Apress Publications, 2013
4. CunoPfister, Getting Started with the Internet of Things, O‟Reilly Media, 2011,
ISBN: 978-1-4493-9357-1.
5. https://nasscom.in/system/files/secure-pdf/IoT_in_India_report_05072016.pdf