The Industrial Internet of Things Volume G1: Reference Architecture

This technical report carries on the work of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) by refining and advancing the ‘Industrial Internet Reference Architecture’ Version 1.7 [1], published in June 2015. To assist the user community and increase usability, the Industrial Internet Reference Architecture (IIRA) is now published as Volume G1 of the comprehensive and all-inclusive ‘The Industrial Internet Consortium: Industrial Internet of Things (IIC IIoT)’. Please refer to ‘IIC IIoT Volume G0: Overview’1 for the IIC IIoT structure.

This definitive IIC IIoT collection will continually expand to represent the broad spectrum of technical, business and best-practices content providing guidance and recommendations, and sharing success stories and lessons learned, in the form of IIC technical reports, white papers and green papers. It will collectively provide guidance IIoT architects, business leaders, implementers and users at every level to optimize their endeavors at establishing IIoT systems, consummating the convergence of Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) to achieve the tremendous economic benefits IIoT has to offer.