1. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
Class 1:Background and Overview of IoT/IIoT
June 23, 2014 Charles J. Lord, PE President, Consultant, Trainer Blue Ridge Advanced Design and Automation

2. This Week’s Agenda
6/23 Background and Overview of IoT/IIoT 6/24 The Applications of IIoT 6/25 The Backbone of IIoT: IPv.6 6/26 The #1 IIoT Challenge: Security 6/27 IIoT: Where Do We Go From Here?

3. This Week’s Agenda
6/23 Background and Overview of IoT/IIoT 6/24 The Applications of IIoT 6/25 The Backbone of IIoT: IPv.6 6/26 The #1 IIoT Challenge: Security 6/27 IIoT: Where Do We Go From Here?

4. Internet of Things

5. So What *IS* the Internet of Things
A collection of unique objects gathered in an Internet-like structure
Term coined by Kevin Ashton in 1999
Proctor and Gamble, later MIT
Started primarily as tracking – was basis for RFID
Outgrowth in tagging: bar codes, QR, digital watermarks, etc

6. Ashton’s take on the IoT
“If we had computers that knew everything there was to know about things—using data they gathered without any help from us—we would be able to track and count everything, and greatly reduce waste, loss and cost. We would know when things needed replacing, repairing or recalling, and whether they were fresh or past their best. The Internet of Things has the potential to change the world, just as the Internet did. Maybe even more so.“ (2009)

7. Everything about Everything
IoT quickly grew from simply tracking some objects to the concept of tracking ‘everything of interest’
Depending on the definition, you can then monitor ‘parameters of interest’ associated with each object – not just location (and sometimes location is not of interest)
There are more than a dozen DIFFERENT definitions of IoT – and growing!

8. Ericsson: “We have a vision of 50 billion connected devices by 2020”
“Anything that benefits from being connected will be connected”
- IoT Devcon, 2014

9. So, What is the INDUSTRIAL IoT?
The IoT is now being thought of as two types of network, coined the Human IoT and the Industrial IoT
The “Human IoT” is characterized as having human interaction and low failure impact.
The “Industrial IoT” is characterized as operating without direct human interaction and oversight, sometimes with potential catastrophic failure impact.

10. Human IoT (HIoT) Human-controlled or at least monitored
Can include a person using a device (phone, tablet, computer, etc.
Includes most consumer and wellness devices, although there is crossover. For example:
If your connected home thermostat fails, in most cases you will detect this and it becomes a nuisance issue
A thermostat in an unoccupied dwelling, or in an industrial process, or in an area that must be kept at a certain temperature range for safety can cause a catastrophic failure

11. Industrial IoT (IIoT)
Primarily devices that work with one another without human interaction or intervention (M2M)
Robustness, controlled failure modes, security become primary issues
“Consumer” items can quickly cross over, as a phone app can control your home or even your car. Or monitor life-critical health issues.

12. SRI’s View: More Info, More Intelligence

13. Research versus Market
There are many diverse research efforts into the future of IoT, taking the concept in different directions
Many of these increase scope of object count and parameter type and number greatly into the realm of Big Data (TB and beyond)
BUT – What is the MARKET driving?

14. Main Markets Building Automation Industrial Automation Lighting
Commercial Transportation / Fleet Mgmt
Enterprise Asset Management
Smart Cars
Test and Measurement
Energy Grid (Smart Grid)

15. Communications Optical – bar code, QR, OCR, bio
Passive transponder – RFID
PAN – ZigBee, BTLE, LoPAN, other 15.x
WiFi (802.11x)
ISM
Cell (4G, 5G, 3GPP, CDMA, etc)
Wired xxbaseT, CAN, others
Others, “all of the above”

16. What to do with all this data??
“to the Cloud!!”
Big Data principles
Privacy, security will be huge areas for development
Regulatory issues that must be met today and in the future
Sampling and Monte Carlo
Trends, patterns

17. Growth Areas Sensors Product tracking from supply chain to end-of-life
Medical
Auto
Protocols and bridging between protocols
What to do with data overload – communications, analysis, storage

18. Autonomous Control Humans can be out of the loop Peer-to-peer Speed
Environment

19. Reliability Failure can be catastrophic
Known failure modes or “fail-safe”
Toyota gas pedal

21. Medical Example

22. Three Major Areas of Development

23. Just Some of the Communications Protocols Involved

24. Standards? Yeah, we got ‘em…

25. This Week’s Agenda
6/23 Background and Overview of IoT/IIoT 6/24 The Applications of IIoT 6/25 The Backbone of IIoT: IPv.6 6/26 The #1 IIoT Challenge: Security 6/27 IIoT: Where Do We Go From Here?

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