Industrial Internet Consortium

How IIoT and “Smart Pumping” can Contribute to Solving the Global Water Crisis

By: Hussain Ahmed – OEM Segment Program Manager, Schneider Electric, & Eric Vatonne - HVACR Pumping OEM Segment Leader, Schneider Electric This blog originally appeared as a Schneider Electric Blog on March 14, 2016. Scarcity of water resources, growth in urban population, environmental regulations and process inefficiencies are all contributing... Read more →

Smart Factories: a Symphonic example of the Industrial Internet in Action

By Cheryl Rocheleau, Verticals Marketing Manager at the Industrial Internet Consortium. As the world of traditional manufacturing fuses with digital manufacturing, organizations are tapping into a level of technical orchestration never attainable before. Symphonies of systems facilitate real-time interactions between machines, assets, systems and things. This is the Smart factory;... Read more →

Innovation at Every Level: The IoT and other Transformational Developments

By Jean-Pascal Tricoire, Chairman & CEO of Schneider Electric. This blog post originally appeared on the Schneider Electric site at http://blog.schneider-electric.com/smart-cities/2016/04/06/innovation-every-level/. The way we currently manage energy is unsustainable. Three megatrends are provoking an important increase in energy demand: Urbanization, industrialization, and digitization. Today we still depend on unsustainable CO2-emitting... Read more →

Building a Business Case for the Industrial IoT

By Roger Pilc, EVP, Chief Innovation Officer at Pitney Bowes The following blog post was submitted by Roger Pilc, Chief Innovation Officer, Pitney Bowes and originally appeared on the GE Digital Industrial Internet blog. The Internet of Things (IoT) is already a familiar concept for many consumers. Common devices now... Read more →

Industrial Internet of Things - IIOT enabled “Connected Care” solutions can save Lives!

By Jayraj Nair, Head - IoT Practice, Infosys In 1999, a seminal study was conducted by the Institute of Medicine that estimated up to 98,000 patients were dying in hospitals per year due to preventable medical errors. Since then additional studies have found that this number could be much higher,... Read more →

Exciting new partnership - SAP and Bosch partner on an IoT Testbed

By Tanja Rueckert, EVP IoT & Customer Innovation Unit, SAP SE SAP provides Internet-of-Things Applications following guidance from Plattform “Industrie 4.0” and Industrial Internet Consortium As announced by Bosch @Bosch ConnectedWorld, SAP is working with Bosch and other international partners to combine the technical standards of Germany’s “Platfform Industrie 4.0”... Read more →

Cooperation Among Two Key Leaders in the Industrial Internet

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and Plattform Industrie 4.0 announce their joint interest and activities with plans to conduct technical meetings to further explore each’s reference architecture, identify mappings, differences and enhancements on both sides, discuss common testing, and work together for the benefit of interoperability of systems from the different domains. Read more →

Don’t compromise on connectivity: – Why Cisco’s plan to acquire Jasper draws attention to key area of IOT

Lars Jerkland, VP of OEM, Asavie Cisco’s acquisition of Jasper overnight has set the Internet of Things world buzzing even more, if that were possible. Everybody’s talking about the IoT, and it’s not hard to see why: who wouldn’t be drawn to the possibilities of smart cities, connected cars, or... Read more →

2015: The Year Things Came Together

By Julie Pike, Sr. Digital Content Manager, Industrial Internet Consortium 2015 was an exciting year at the Industrial Internet Consortium. Not only did we hit the 200-member milestone (to date, we have 230 members hailing from 27 countries), but we also earned a larger role in Industrial Internet thought leadership... Read more →

Standing at the Doorway to the Next Industrial Revolution

By William Ruh, Vice President, GE When the Industrial Internet Consortium was launched last year, our goal was bringing together organizations to accelerate the growth of a new ecosystem for connecting smart machines, advanced analytics and people at work. It’s an understatement to say that I’m delighted by the progress... Read more →