The Industrial Internet Consortium Announces the Industrial Internet Vocabulary Technical Report v.2.0

NEEDHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#IIConsortium—The
Industrial Internet Consortium®(IIC), the world’s leading
organization transforming business and society by accelerating the
adoption of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), announced version
2.0 of the Industrial Internet Vocabulary Technical Report. The report
provides IIoT vocabulary terms and definitions that enable all
stakeholders in the IIoT ecosystem, from system architects to IT
managers to plant managers to business decision makers, to communicate
with each other effectively.

The IIC Vocabulary Technical Report v2.0 is the foundation for the
collective body of work from the IIC, ensuring that consistent
terminology is used throughout all IIC publications. This includes the
Industrial Reference Architecture (IRA), Industrial Internet Security
Framework (IISF), Industrial Internet Connectivity Framework (IICF) and
the Business Strategy and Innovation Framework (BSIF) that collectively
comprise the IIC IIoT suite.

“The Industrial Internet comprises a diverse set of industries and
people with various skill sets and expertise. Often, concepts and
terminology in one field will have different meanings in another,
leading to confusion,” said Anish Karmarkar, IIC Vocabulary Task Group
Chair, and Director, Standards Strategy & Architecture at Oracle.
“Industrial Internet projects succeed when participants can communicate
using common vocabulary terms and definitions. The IIC Industrial
Internet Vocabulary Technical Report v2.0 ensures all IIoT stakeholders
are speaking the same language, avoiding what would otherwise be an IIoT
‘Tower of Babel.’”

The Industrial Internet Vocabulary Technical Report v2.0 was developed
by members of the IIC Vocabulary Task Group, which is part of the IIC
Technology Working Group, comprised of software architects, business
experts, and security experts. The group analyzed the previous version
of the report and made the following updates:

• Interdependent terms were aligned to create a cohesive whole.
• Terms were eliminated if they did not have a specific meaning in IIoT,
  if the dictionary meaning was already sufficient or if there were
  other terms that were better replacements.
• Terms were added following the publication of the IIC IISF and the IIC
  IRA V1.8.

“The IIoT is changing quickly and as such, the meaning of specific words
and phrases has also changed,” said Marcellus Buchheit, member of the
IIC Vocabulary Task Group, and co-founder of WIBU-SYSTEMS AG, President
and CEO of WIBU-SYSTEMS USA. “The vocabulary team reviewed nearly every
first edition term, removing 11 unnecessary terms, adding 16 terms and
redefining 11 terms. Our goal was simplicity, clarity, and relevancy to
the IIoT.”

New to version 2.0, the IIC Vocabulary Task Group voted to add the
prefix “IoT” to terms such as device, sensor, actuator and connected
their interdependencies with endpoint, component and interface to align
these terms as part of a cohesive whole. A definition for
“trustworthiness” was added following the publication of the IISF and
several terms, such as application domain, operations domain,
implementation viewpoint and usage viewpoint were added following the
publication of the IIRA V1.8.

“Vocabulary is where stakeholders come together from Working and Task
Groups to discuss and agree on the commonality across their interests,”
said Eric Harper, IIC Steering Committee Member and Senior Principal
Scientist, ABB. “The IIC Vocabulary 2.0 release continues this process
by generalizing architecture concepts to prepare the way for
contributions focused on edge computing and interoperability.”

The full IIC Vocabulary Technical Report 2.0 and list of IIC members who
contributed to version 2.0 can be found here
on the IIC website.

About the Industrial Internet Consortium

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transforming business and society by accelerating the Industrial
Internet of Things (IIoT). The IIC delivers a trustworthy IIoT in which
the world’s systems and devices are securely connected and controlled to
deliver transformational outcomes. The Industrial Internet Consortium is
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