Open Interconnect Consortium Partners With Industrial Internet Consortium To Create IoT Standards

The Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) announced a liaison agreement with the Industrial Internet Consortium Thursday to share information that will help streamline interoperability for the Internet of Things. With the use of 4.9 billion connected devices expected in 2015, “the need to create industry standardizations in IoT is increasing rapidly,” said an OIC news release. “Through this formal liaison, the Industrial Internet Consortium will share its use cases and architectural requirements focused on the industrial market,” the release said. “In turn, OIC will ensure that its specification and associated open source project (IoTivity) will deliver the necessary features in an IoT communication framework to meet the requirements and make the use cases not just real, but also easy to implement.” OIC members include Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, Samsung and Siemens.