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Industrial Internet of Things standards in the works

OMAC, OPC Foundation and PLCopen collaborate on specifications that will allow their existing automation standards to share IIoT information.

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As the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) gains momentum, one of the biggest bottlenecks the manufacturing industry faces is the inability to share information between smart devices that may be speaking different languages. This communication gap stems from the multiple protocols that populate the plant floor. So, while you can put a sensor on a machine to gather data, the ability to push that information across a network and ultimately “talk” with other systems is a bit more difficult to do.

Now, there is a need for a plant floor lingua franca—or at the very least, a way to standardize data sharing across production line machines.

Understanding that it requires collaboration to create an IIoT interoperability standard, three automation groups have joined forces to create a foundation for sharing IIoT information.

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