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Digital Transformation (DX) projects require unique procurement skills to navigate the considerations needed when building an RFP. The procurement process for a typical IoT project is quite different from that of an enterprise software project. IIC offers online tools and help guide IIoT project managers and procurement managers/buyers through the sourcing process, from the make vs buy decision to the actual RFPs for a complete end-to-end DX project. Join IIC members as they walk you through the differences and how to set up yourself for success when embarking on your DX journey.

What you will learn from this webinar:

• How to architect a purpose built solution for critical infrastructure operators
• How IoT developers can leverage widely adopted standards like coAP and MQTT to streamline integration into third party networks and management software
• Strategies for reducing development complexity using sensor APIs
• How you can define a minimum viable product and demonstrate value to a customer
• How hardware solution providers can leverage pre-integrated data visualization and analytics tools to quickly prototype a solution and accelerate time-to-market

IoT devices (or things) are more ubiquitous than humans! There are approximately 7.62 billion humans on our planet, by the 2021 there may be more than 20 billion IoT smart devices resulting from the increase in demand from 5G. These devices are talking among themselves, perform streaming analytics, making intelligent decisions, communicating with us and providing valuable insights. They continuously produce, process, store, and transfer data. The outcome is a smarter, more reliable, responsive world that connects the digital and physical universes. Advancements in cloud technologies have further paved the way for the connected world, with edge devices leveraging the capabilities of cloud platforms for real-time processing, intensive computations, and big data analytics. Containerization and Kubernetes technologies are on the rise, immensely aiding the entire IoT ecosystem.

In this session, you’ll learn about IoT use cases involving containers and kubernetes in cloud platforms. Using an edge device deployment in cloud, you’ll see how these technologies enable real-time processing and decision-making. Regardless of the velocity, variety or volume of data generated, in motion or at rest, cloud-enabled IoT delivers on the outcomes of your business.

Digital Transformation (DX) projects do not follow a typical enterprise software procurement path. Join members of the Industrial Internet Consortium as they discuss how DX projects are different, what unique challenges they present, and the success factors for your DX project. IIC offers a collection of best practices and online tools to help guide IIoT project managers and procurement managers/buyers through the sourcing process, from the make vs buy decision to the actual RFPs for a complete end-to-end DX project. This will help you create and manage effective RFPs for DX projects, and provide guidance to ensure that you are getting the best possible solutions for the most affordable price.

Internet-connected devices, from point-of-sale payment devices such as signature scanners, to audit-logging devices such as printers and cash dispensers, have dramatically increased retail industry security threats. New threats are constantly emerging, and attackers are becoming more capable and organized. At the same time, compliance requirements for security and data protection are becoming more stringent. Retail organizations are rightly concerned about developing robust security and data protection plans.

Retail establishments need to take a structured, top-down approach toward setting goals and a means to assess the current security state, trading off investment against risk in a sensible manner. This webinar takes concepts identified in the IIC Industrial Internet Security Framework and the IoT SMM Practitioner’s Guide and will help retail organization stakeholders determine their security needs. First, business stakeholders use the model to define security goals and objectives tied to risks. Then, technical teams within the retail organization, or third-party assessment vendors, map these objectives into tangible security techniques and capabilities, and identify an appropriate target security maturity level.

Attendees will learn how to match their investment with their security needs as they migrate their point-of-sale devices within the IOT world.

Robocars will make life better and more efficient. But autonomous vehicles (AVs) that do everything drivers can do are still years or even decades away. And since operation with nobody in the car is critical for economic viability, we need a way to help the AV with “corner cases”. The best way to enable AVs sooner is to use human operators to suggest strategies when the vehicle gets stuck. That requires vehicle fleets to have control rooms. This session will examine the potential and challenge of practical teleoperation, including combining assistance strategies, control-center design, cloud computing, and 5G connectivity. It will also consider the architecture required to connect in-vehicle control and remote oversight. These systems should not be designed independently. AVs need a consistent architecture for the vehicle, control center, and cloud.

Many large energy consumers, from higher educational campuses to manufacturers, are tasked with addressing their energy consumption with diminishing budgets in the aftermath of a global pandemic. Many of the advanced technologies needed to reduce energy consumption or increase energy resiliency come with financial barriers that stand in the way of progress. How are some campuses making necessary improvements to their energy infrastructure while also addressing their carbon reduction goals? How did they invest in upgrades when there wasn’t a generous budget line item in place? In this session, we will hear directly from an individual who was able to advance the energy efficiency and carbon reduction goals of his campus, using a unique Energy as a Service (EaaS) offering, with no up-front capital provided by his institution. What were the critical first steps? What were the key lessons learned and notable best practices? And most importantly, what were the results of the EaaS project and how has it impacted their planning for tomorrow.

In recent years, many organizations have made trustworthy software central to their mission. If your industrial systems are not trustworthy, it can lead to a string of faults and incidents that you simply do not want on your resume.

Conventional safety function is not designed to provide protection against malicious intentional parties but only against accidents and errors. Therefore, putting controls in place to optimize security and safety is a vital first step. Dr. Emrah Tomur, Master Researcher at Ericsson Research and Dr. Emilia Cioroaica; PhD Researcher, Fraunhofer IESE will share illustrative use cases from the manufacturing industry to demonstrate how vulnerabilities in functional safety can lead to operational downtime, intellectual property loss and even life-threatening consequences.

The webinar will conclude with best practices based on Industrial Internet Consortium guidelines, related standards and security features including current mobile technologies to mitigate effects of security threats on safety.

You have a transformational digital innovation – how do you finance it?

During this short workshop hosted by the Industrial Internet Consortium’s (IIC’s) Innovation Task Group, IIC member, Inspiralia, will provide an overview of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and the Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR) which is the largest federal funding opportunity in the US. Featured guest speaker, Luca Dalla Valle will cover the basics of SBIR/STTR programs, interests and needs of the Air Force and how to be successful in your proposal submission. Inspiralia has helped its customers both within the US and internationally obtain SBIR non-dilutive funding from several US Federal Agencies (AFWERX, NSF, NIH and others) in many different sectors like advanced materials, robotics, energy, transportation, biomedical and biological technologies, AI and others.

This keynote address will highlight IIC member Johnson & Johnson's journey to supply chain excellence. Sultan Aziz Senior Director, Product Supply Strategy Management at Johnson & Johnson will share the company's extensive experience in supply chain associated with pharma, over-the counter medications, and consumer goods and will share their best practices and guidance. Discover how IoT adoption, under the umbrella of the Digital Operating Model, is a critical component & enabler for the overall Supply Chain Innovation Engine.

* Start with customer and business needs & opportunities to DEFINE “What to innovate for” and direct & guide the innovation work to address business needs.

* Gain EXTERNAL INSIGHTS – discover and explore the broad & global innovation “Eco-System” for potential value creation opportunities, that fit the “defined needs”. SCOUT & SCREEN value creation opportunities and prioritize for further evaluation.

* EVALUATE the prioritized solutions, demonstrate & validate in a “Proof of Concept”

* TEST and proof feasibility of the solutions in the “Real World”, and gain understanding of the requirements for enabling factors.

* DEPLOY & SCALE the proven solutions as integrated & sustainable supply chain capabilities.

SAVORTEX® is a multi-award winning British IoT hand-hygiene technology company that has over 400 projects deployed internationally to multinational companies such as Gatwick Airport, The Shard, Euro Garages, Wates and RBS to name a few. Covid-19 has brought hand-hygiene to the forefront of global business, a sector forecast to grow from $2.7bn to $36.6bn by 2026. With 1 in 5 people not washing hands and considering that 80 percent of all infections are transmitted by touch, it’s costing employers $225.8 billion annually. During this webinar presentation, Syed Ahmed, Founder and CEO, will highlight the launch of the first Smart hand sanitiser which has the ability to report users who do not sanitise their hands as a hygiene risk and deny access if required, to make buildings safer.

Digital transformation is not a project. It is a transformational strategy led by a vision and powered by a committed program, and a range of technologies often involving multiple IIoT projects.

During this live webinar, Bassam and Jim, co-chairs of the Industrial Internet Consortium's Digital Transformation Working Group, and authors of the "Digital Transformation in Industry" white paper will discuss 3 categories of digital transformation initiatives: new business models, enterprise operations and customer experience. Usage scenarios will be shared to illustrate the potential impact of a wide range of technologies (such as Digital Twin, Data Security, Distributed Ledger, Servitization, AI and Analytics) available to enable digital transformation. The presenters will also discuss first steps for end users looking to gain a competitive advantages from the new technologies driving digital transformation.

Speakers:
-Jim Morrish, Transforma Insights
-Bassam Zarkout, IGnPower Inc.
-Others TBA

*Rescheduled from 2020-Aug-13 due to technical difficulties. Please Join us!*

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) and the concept of Digital Health, specifically, connectivity between patients, clinicians, machines and care environments, is emerging as a powerful tool in addressing some of healthcare biggest challenges. Recent advances in the development of Real Time Location Systems (RTLS) for reliable monitoring of assets, people and processes in the delivery of care have overcome many barriers to both their implementation and adoption. RTLS allows reliable and accurate monitoring and tracking of critical assets and resources and importantly makes possible the application of real time Operational Analytics to the delivery of care. Such analysis fundamentally addresses better patient outcomes and cost management by optimizing patient flow, staffing, scheduling, asset tracking, resource utilization and greater personalization of care. Additionally, real time location data used with advanced Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence can generate critical insights and information about patient care delivery that previously were hidden or were difficult if not impossible to derive.

Recent wildfires in Australia and California have recharged the debate about fire management, terrestrial ecosystem complexity and dynamical control in the wake of irreversible climate change. With a widening gap between utilities locked in aging, proprietary ecosystems, unable to deploy modern technologies based on shared, trusted, open systems, several IoT opportunities emerge. Energy adaptive networks OpenOPF (Optimal Power Flow), is a first step towards a series of new IoT technologies targeted at solving robustness trade-offs in the wake of catastrophic disasters that could be prevented at scale

Much of the focus of IoT to date has been on relatively simple projects that generate a return relatively quickly. But more complex projects and more mission-critical projects can be more impactful in terms of process efficiency, value proposition, and industry transformation. In this presentation, Jim will present findings from the analysis of hundreds of IoT case studies, including analyses of different dimensions of complexity and market impact. He will explore two case studies in detail, highlighting how different profiles of complexity drive different profiles of skills required on solution design and implementation teams. Jim will include recommendations for how end users should best approach the opportunities presented by IoT.

Robocars will make life better and more efficient. But autonomous vehicles (AVs) that do everything drivers can do are still years or even decades away. And since operation with nobody in the car is critical for economic viability, we need a way to help the AV with “corner cases”. The best way to enable AVs sooner is to use human operators to suggest strategies when the vehicle gets stuck. That requires vehicle fleets to have control rooms. This session will examine the potential and challenge of practical teleoperation, including combining assistance strategies, control-center design, cloud computing, and 5G connectivity. It will also consider the architecture required to connect in-vehicle control and remote oversight. These systems should not be designed independently. AVs need a consistent architecture for the vehicle, control center, and cloud.

Traditional Over the Air (OTA) updates are known for delivering updates to only the system software. This presentation will introduce a secure methodology to now also update the functionality of the system hardware via the Rollouts service from the Bosch IoT Suite and RTI software. Using Xilinx Adaptable technology in conjunction with a secure cloud-based system from Bosch.IO, hardware updates can be instantaneously provided via RTI’s Connext Drive to all nodes in today’s connected vehicle. Connext Drive provides the connectivity framework, proven in operation and working closely with industry-standard organizations, such as AUTOSAR and ROS, to develop automotive frameworks and platforms that leverage the DDS standard. The presentation will conclude with a demonstration of this OTA Silicon methodology.

With each hack the security concerns surrounding IoT intensify. This has caused governmental institutions to act and provide IoT security guidelines and regulations to better protect their region. With many regulations and security standards being established it can be a challenge to decipher each standard to ensure worldwide compliance. In this talk we will discuss the evolution of government standards and how a standardized set of security requirements can speed time-to-security and protect devices and services that depend on their data. We’ll touch on the PSA Certified program, which includes a framework for securing devices and an accompanying multi-level security assurance scheme. The scheme has a concise set of security questions combined with lab evaluation, that builds on years of investment in IoT security and neatly aligns with new guidelines and regulations. This allows device manufacturers to ensure IoT security best practice, covering the needs of multiple regions and successfully unlocking the ability to enhance businesses models with trusted data.