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Iiot Reference Architecture: Course Code: Csio4700 Course Name: Iot For Industries
Iiot Reference Architecture: Course Code: Csio4700 Course Name: Iot For Industries
Iiot Reference Architecture: Course Code: Csio4700 Course Name: Iot For Industries
• 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?
• 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
• 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
•
Mapping Between a three-tier Architecture to the
functional Domains
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