State of the Art M2M/IoT Solutions

M2M Evolution: Closing the Gap between IT and OT

Las Vegas, 8.11.2014

Jon Woodland

IT/OT Gap Overview • Information Technology (IT)

– Providing data for corporate decision making and support of corporate

business process

– Homogenous architecture to allow readiness, pervasiveness and cost containment.

– Rapid adoption to new computing trends

– Virtualization => Internet => Cloud => Mobility => BYOD

• Operational Technology (OT)

– Providing data and control to operationally transform products and services

– Task Oriented – specific purpose -

– Highly customized service specific systems designed to specific assets

– Silos of proprietary architectures specific because to task

• IT/OT Integration –

– Nature of OT is changing.

– Devices are increasing becoming multiservice end points serving multiple

applications

– Need to learn from best practices in IT

The Internet of Things Understanding Legacy Architectures - Monolithic

One-to-One data relationship

between the Host and field

equipment.

Custom applications are

required to access data

Multi-Drop Polled Circuits

Operation

Consoles

FEP Host

Custom

Application

ERP

Modeling

Engineering Custom

Application

Enterprise Applications

The Internet of Things Legacy IoT Architectures – Implementation Barrier

One-to-One data relationship

between the services (devices) –

monolithic solutions.

Custom applications are required

to access data

Custom

“Monolithic”

Applications

Enterprise Applications

Location # 2

Location # 3

Implementation

Barrier

Location # 1

WAN / Internet

The Internet of Things Architectural Approach for more effective M2M Solutions

What needs to be done:

• Flexible, IT centric M2M hardware & software platforms

• Decoupling of consumers and producers of data

• Single flexible & manageable M2M infrastructure

But …

• “Minimal-invasive” approach

• Integrating legacy systems, preserving investments

• Reduce cost (WAN, cellular, implementation, operations)

The Internet of Things Architectural Approach for more effective M2M Solutions

What needs to be done summary:

Decoupling Producers & Consumers of M2M Device Data

+ Integrating, Consolidating and Computing at the Edge

The Internet of Things – Step 1 Decoupling Producers & Consumers of M2M Device Data

Many-to-Many data relationship

between the business applications

and the devices

Enterprise Applications

Location # 3

Location # 1

Location # 2

Enterprise Service Bus

For M2M Device Data

M2M

Integration

Platform

The Internet of Things – Step 2 Integrating, Consolidating and Computing at the Edge

M2M Smart Services Gateways

integrate and consolidate at the

remote location

Enterprise Applications

Location # 3

Location # 1

Location # 2

M2M Intelligent

Edge

Internet of Things End to End Solutions in IoT

Devices

System

Infrastructure

Application

Infrastructure

Layer

Application

Layer

M2M

Integration

Platform

Communication

Infrastructure

Field Infrastructure

IaaS

Server

Datacenter

iPaaS

aPaaS

SaaS

Enterprise Applications

SIM Management &

Provisioning Platforms

Mobile

Carriers Other

Carriers Satellite

OT Infrastructure

/ Device Cloud Internet

Big Data

Business Intelligence / Analytics

Application

Enablement

Device & Data

Management

Cloud

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