The Industrial Internet Consortium and the EdgeX Foundry Announce Liaison

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ByChantal Polsonetti
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The Industrial Internet Consortium and EdgeX Foundry announced they have agreed to a liaison. Under the agreement, the IIC and the EdgeX Foundry will work together to align efforts to maximize interoperability, portability, security and privacy for the industrial Internet.

Joint activities between the IIC and the EdgeX Foundry will include:

  • Identifying and sharing best practices

  • Collaborating on test beds and experimental projects

  • Working toward interoperability by harmonizing architecture and other elements

  • Collaborating on common elements

  • Periodically hosting joint seminars

     

The IIC 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. The agreement with the EdgeX Foundry is one of a number of agreements made by the IIC Liaison Working Group.

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