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IIoT Platforms Gartner

By 2025, 50% of industrial enterprises will use industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) platforms to improve factory operations, up from 10% in 2020.

Market Definition/Description

Gartner defines the IIoT platform market as a set of integrated software capabilities to improve asset management decision making within asset-intensive industries. IIoT platforms also provide operational visibility and control for plants, infrastructure and equipment.

IIoT Platforms

The IIoT platform  cost-effectively collects higher volumes of high-velocity, complex machine data from networked IoT endpoints. The IIoT platform also orchestrates historically siloed data sources to enable better accessibility, and improve insights and actions across a heterogeneous asset group through specialized analysis of the data.

The IIoT platform:

Monitors IoT endpoints and event streams

Analyzes data at the edge and in the cloud

Integrates and engages IT and OT systems in data sharing and consumption

Enables application development and deployment

Can enrich and supplement OT functions for improved asset management life cycle strategies and processes

The IIoT platform, in concert with the IoT edge and through enterprise IT/OT integration, prepares asset-intensive industries to become digital businesses. Digital capabilities are achieved by enhancing and connecting their core business with customers, suppliers and business partners.

The IIoT platform software that resides on and near devices — such as controllers, routers, access points, gateways and edge compute systems — is considered part of the “distributed IIoT platform.”

The platform provider must exhibit demonstrable value in terms of integration and interoperability with such applications, which include:

Enterprise asset management (EAM)

Computerized maintenance management systems (CMMSs)

Fleet management

Condition-based maintenance (CBM)

Manufacturing execution systems (MES)

Maintenance, repair and operations (MRO)

Product life cycle management (PLM)

Application portfolio management (APM)

Field service management (FSM)

Building management systems (BMSs)

IIoT Platform Capabilities

The IIoT platform  is composed of the following technology functions:

Device management — This function includes software that enables manual and automated tasks to create, provision, configure, troubleshoot and manage fleets of IoT devices and gateways remotely, in bulk or individually, and securely.

Integration — This function includes software, tools and technologies, such as communications protocols, APIs and application adapters, which minimally address the data, process, enterprise application and IIoT ecosystem integration requirements across cloud and on-premises implementations for end-to-end IIoT solutions. These IIoT solutions include IIoT devices (for example, communications modules and controllers), IIoT gateways, IIoT edge and IIoT platforms.

Data management — This function includes capabilities that support:

Ingesting IoT endpoint and edge device data

Storing data from edge to enterprise platforms

Providing data accessibility (by devices, IT and OT systems, and external parties, when required)

Tracking lineage and flow of data

Enforcing data and analytics governance policies to ensure the quality, security, privacy and currency of data

Analytics — This function includes processing of data streams, such as device, enterprise and contextual data, to provide insights into asset state by monitoring use, providing indicators, tracking patterns and optimizing asset use. A variety of techniques, such as rule engines, event stream processing, data visualization and machine learning, may be applied.

Application enablement and management — This function includes software that enables business applications in any deployment model to analyze data and accomplish IoT-related business functions. Core software components manage the OS, standard input and output or file systems to enable other software components of the platform. The application platform (for example, application platform as a service [aPaaS]) includes application-enabling infrastructure components, application development, runtime management and digital twins. The platform allows users to achieve “cloud scale” scalability and reliability and deploy and deliver IoT solutions quickly and seamlessly.

Security — This function includes the software, tools and practices facilitated to audit and ensure compliance. This function also establishes preventive, detective and corrective controls and actions to ensure privacy and the security of data across the IIoT solution.

2019

https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/industrial-iot-platforms

Hitachi Again Named a “Visionary” in Gartner Magic Quadrant for IIoT Platforms 2019

https://www.hitachivantara.com/ext/gartner-magic-quadrant-for-industrial-iot.html

https://www.ptc.com/en/resources/iiot/white-paper/gartner-mq-for-iiot

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IBM

Google

Intel

Microsoft

Cisco

Apple

SAP

Oracle

Samsung

Hewlett Packard

Ericson

Amazon.Com

GE

Qualcomm

AT&T

Orange

Blackberry

Facebook

Dell

Verizon

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News

February 2016

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83088.html


IoT Players

http://electronicsofthings.com/category/industry-players/

http://internetofthingswiki.com/iot-companies-you-must-know/653



5 Oct 2020
25 March 2016