Under this agreement, the organizations will promote the digital economy by preventing fragmentation and by harmonizing various aspects in the IIoT. Joint activities between the IIC and the oneM2M will include:

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Industrial Internet Consortium® (IIC), the worlds leading organization transforming business and society by accelerating the adoption of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and oneM2M, the global IoT standards initiative, today announced they have agreed to work together to contribute to the creation and development of the Industrial Internet.

Under this agreement, the organizations will promote the digital economy by preventing fragmentation and by harmonizing various aspects in the IIoT. Joint activities between the IIC and the oneM2M will include:

Collaboration, review and two-way feedback pertaining to IoT use cases, requirements and reference architectures.
Feedback to oneM2M standards from IIC testbeds and interoperability events.
Feedback from oneM2M to IIC Industrial Internet Reference Architecture.
Joint workshops, showcases and interoperability events.
"The Industrial IoT brings a whole new set of specific requirements in comparison to consumer IoT. Deriving those specific requirements from market driven use cases as well as lessons learnt from operational driven testbeds, such as those developed by IIC, is the only viable option to develop the set of standards needed for IIoT." said oneM2Ms Technical Plenary Chair Dr. Omar Elloumi, of Nokia. "Formalizing our cooperation with the IIC is an important step in meeting these requirements. oneM2M has built an interoperability framework thats applicable within and across IoT application domains. We are excited to have the opportunity to work with the IIC to extend our footprint of standards"

"Horizontal technologies that enable scalability across a variety of industrial verticals are essential to the widespread adoption IIoT," said Wael William Diab, IIC Chair of the Liaison Working Group. "We are excited about working with oneM2M to ensure that interoperability remains a core tenet of the IIoT as we look to accelerate the growth of IIoT applications."

The IIC has already participated in oneM2Ms Industry Day, held in Memphis on July 13, 2017, with both organizations agreeing to meet regularly in the future to exchange information.

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 oneM2M is one of a number of agreements made by the IIC Liaison Working Group. For a list of current liaisons, click here.

About oneM2M

oneM2M is the global standards initiative that covers requirements, architecture, API specifications, security solutions and interoperability for Machine-to-Machine and IoT technologies. oneM2M was formed in 2012 and consists of eight of the world's preeminent standards development organizations: ARIB (Japan), ATIS (U.S.), CCSA (China), ETSI (Europe), TIA (U.S.), TSDSI (India), TTA (Korea), and TTC (Japan), together with six industry fora or consortia (Broadband Forum, Continua Alliance, GlobalPlatform, Next Generation M2M Consortium, OMA) and over 200 member organizations. oneM2M specifications provide a framework to support applications and services such as the smart grid, connected car, home automation, public safety, and health. oneM2M actively encourages industry associations and forums with specific application requirements to participate in oneM2M, in order to ensure that the solutions developed support their specific needs. For more information, including how to join and participate in oneM2M, see: www.oneM2M.org.

About the Industrial Internet Consortium

The Industrial Internet Consortium is the worlds leading membership program transforming business and society by accelerating the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). The IIC delivers a trustworthy IIoT in which the worlds systems and devices are securely connected and controlled to deliver transformational outcomes. The Industrial Internet Consortium is a program of the Object Management Group (OMG). For more information, visit www.iiconsortium.org.

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