Industrial Internet Consortium Signs MoU with China Academy of Information and Communications Technology

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), the global, member-supported organization that promotes the accelerated growth of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT).  Under the agreement, the IIC and CAICT will work together to help ensure interoperability for the industrial Internet in China.  The agreement is one of a number of agreements made by the IIC’s newly formed Liaison Working Group.

Joint activities between the IIC and CAICT will include:

• Identifying and sharing best practices
• Collaborating on testbeds and research and development projects
• Realizing interoperability by harmonizing architecture and other elements 
• Collaborating on standardization

  The Liaison Working Group is the gateway for formal relationships with standards and open-source organizations, consortia, alliances, certification and testing bodies and government entities/agencies. 

  Keywords: Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Open-Source, ARC Advisory Group.