Bridging the Industrial IoT Gap
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The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is already transforming how manufacturing and energy firms build, maintain, sell, and deliver their products and services. With the explosion of connected devices and their data, however, the looming challenge will not just be in how we connect those devices to one another and manage them, but how to connect them meaningfully and reliably to the traditional IT and business processes they power. Marty Pejko of Centerity Systems explains how their software solution unifies the IIoT environment by interfacing directly to connected devices/sensors using any protocol, overlaying a single common data model for device interoperability, and then pushes that data to the edge and Cloud to perform analytics. He then shows how their customers achieve holistic operational visibility by correlating the OT (Operational Technology) and IT performance and organizing that data according to real business processes from a single console.
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Bridging the Industrial IoT Gap
- 2. True IIoT Business Process Awareness Translating Technology Data to Business Meaning BusinessIT
- 3. Outline Phases of IIoT Unification Operational Technology (“OT”) o Challenges: Fragmentation, Diversity & Security Alignment with IT Infrastructure & Applications o Challenges: Redundant Tools lack Cross-Domain Correlation Business Services o Challenges: Silos of Data & Poor Service-Level Awareness
- 4. IIoT Projects Challenges Very Complex Systems at Deployment & Throughout Life-Cycle • Multiple Communication Methods, Complicate Connectivity & Interoperability • Diverse Data Models increase Management Complexity • Service Use Case & Ecosystem Definitions Change • Custom-made Sensors and Actuators are expensive COTS (off-the-shelf) devices are affordable but not tailored for Security, Service Model and Communication Requirements
- 5. Centerity’s IIoT End-to-End Solution device/sensor connectivity Agent system connectivity Ecosystem MGMT • Wide connectivity support for any communication method, protocols and IT technologies • Single abstract service model can translate data at runtime into business & operational service views • Dynamic ecosystem scalability and maintainability • Adjusting COTS devices to the ecosystem’s security and communication requirements with no firmware changes • Secure device intercommunication across the entire ecosystem
- 6. Connected Device Abstraction Centerity overlays a single user- defined abstract data model across a service to manage disparate connected devices via the same model.
- 8. IIoT End-To-End Discovery, Data Collection & Translation Thread MQTT WebSockets AllJoyn REST HTTP HTTPS TCP CoAP BLE GATT IoTivity Thread MQTT WebSockets AllJoyn REST HTTP TCP UDP CoAP BLE GATT IoTivity UDP HTTPS WiFi Bluetooth 6LowPAN Zigbee Z-Wave WiFi Bluetooth 6LowPAN Zigbee Z-Wave Translator IT Infrastructure Big Data & Advanced Technologies
- 9. IIoT End-To-End Discovery, Data Collection & Translation Thread MQTT WebSockets AllJoyn REST HTTP HTTPS TCP CoAP BLE GATT IoTivity Thread MQTT WebSockets AllJoyn REST HTTP TCP UDP CoAP BLE GATT IoTivity UDP HTTPS WiFi Bluetooth 6LowPAN Zigbee Z-Wave WiFi Bluetooth 6LowPAN Zigbee Z-Wave Translator IT Infrastructure Big Data & Advanced Technologies
- 10. Complete Data Flow Visibility for IIoT
- 11. Enterprise-Class Distributed Architecture Enterprise Server Management Distributed Node Distributed Node Distributed Node Distributed Node Distributed Node
- 12. Multi-Tenant Environment Monitoring Customer A Customer B Customer C Customer D View environments according to customers, business processes, and user permissions, regardless of deployment method
- 13. • IoT / IIoT Devices • Big Data – Hadoop, SAP HANA etc. • Converged / Hyperconverged infrastructure – Nutanix, Vblock, FlexPod etc. • Cloud Technologies – Pivotal, Openstack, AWS etc. • Others Containers (Docker etc.) Hypervisors (VMware, Citrix etc.) Applications – Event logs, Syslogs, Rest, etc. Connectivity / networking DB (Hana, NoSQL etc.) Storage And much more… Advanced Technologies Out-of-the-Box
- 14. IIoT End-to-End Visibility & Management BSMDiscoverSCAN1 2 Visualize3 Correlate & Monitor 4 Integrate5
- 15. ……………….…….… ………………..………… ………………..…… ………………..…… ………………..…… Network ………………..…….… ………………..………… Sensors Cloud End Points Edge Single Version of the Truth Business Service SLA
- 16. ……………….…….… ………………..………… ………………..…… ………………..…… ………………..…… Business Service SLA Network ………………..…….… ………………..………… Sensors Cloud End Points Edge Single Version of the Truth
- 20. Predix Use Case Real-Time Coverage & Monitoring of the Edge Integration with 3rd Party Products (VCE –Vision) Provides End-to-End In-Depth Visibility Allows Remote Monitoring w/ Managed Services Option
- 21. Centerity IIoT Added-value Measuring SLAs for IoT/IIoT Platforms • Business/Process Visibility across all Ecosystems • Assuring High-Level Services • Single-Pane-of-Glass Approach Improving Business/Process Health with Minimal Unplanned Downtime • Bridging Operational Technologies (OT) & Information Technologies (IT) • Improve Troubleshooting Process / Automated Root Cause Analysis • Introduce Proactive vs Reactive Management Approach • Increasing Efficiency while Reducing Operational Complexity, MTTR & OPEX
Editor's Notes
- This is the crucial starting point for maintaining performance in any complex technology environment and it guides the philosophy of Centerity, which is to translate technology data into business meaning. Because only by viewing an IoT business environment holistically can you recognize every potential point of failure and see the true impact of one component on the performance of another. Centerity makes the impact on your business service performance your starting point, whether it’s your wind farm, Oil Rig, or smart city street lighting, and from there you can dive into specific technologies and KPIs.
- So with that being said, I’ve outlined this discussion to focus on unifying Industrial IoT environments from a performance management perspective in three phases: 1.) The operational technology or connected devices and sensors 2.) The wider IT environment that supports those connected devices and networks 3.) The actual business processes in the service of which all the technologies operate I will then take a moment to put what you have learned in the context of GE Predix, before a brief recap and Q & A.
- IoT environments are necessarily complex and that complexity presents operational challenges not just in deployment, but throughout the system’s lifecycle. So what are some of these challenges in connected industrial environments? 1.) The variety of communication protocols and data models used by these devices and sensors complicate connectivity and interoperability and make managing the ecosystem difficult. 2.) Often you might want to switch out devices for a different brand or change protocol methods, so even if you can tune the ecosystem for deployment, an enterprise system is dynamic, so your service use case and ecosystem definitions will be in constant flux. 3.) Finally, depending on the environment, you may have a mix of custom and generic Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) devices, which each bring unique challenges. Whereas custom devices are fine-tuned to the environment but expensive, COTS devices are comparatively cheap, but are not designed for the ecosystem’s security, service models, or communication requirements. So, let’s look point-by-point at how Centerity meets these challenges.
- First of all, Centerity is deployed as a software-only platform comprising a single console for management and monitoring with agents sitting on edge devices or any hardware on the network to pull data from connected sensors, manage the devices, and translate data into various protocols and data models at runtime for device interoperability. The platform supports nearly any device protocol, be it standard and low-level or non-standard and more complex. If there is ever a communication method that is not already supported in the system, our development team can build a plugin for integration in a matter of hours or days, at most. And as environments change, Centerity is able to scale dynamically, discovering and adding new devices extremely quickly. If COTS devices are added to the environment, you can use Centerity to quickly adjust those devices to the security requirements of the ecosystem without having to touch the firmware. Lets look deeper at this translation process.
- Centerity’s abstraction layer is able to overlay a single user-defined abstract data model across a service to manage disparate connected devices via the same model. Using the Centerity API translator, you can bind your desired common abstract language to the device’s specific language, essentially hiding the lower-level device protocol from the service or business logic manager, and allowing for communication with other devices.
- The distributed architecture of the system allows you to connect and make interoperable devices residing on different local networks in an event-driven fashion, as though they were sitting next to one another. Expanding this virtual network requires simply running the Centerity Agent on a machine in the newly added local network. This can be deployed to connect directly to the device, behind a hardware hub, or via a service cloud.
- As this diagram depicts, considering the solution end-to-end, Centerity allows you to automatically scan for discoverable devices on any network, translate their non-standard protocols into standard protocols like REST API, etc. to send data to the gateway and cloud, and apply a single abstract data model for a service across any devices in that service for interoperability and common management.
- Thus, with the OT layer standardized, all supporting technologies at the Edge, in the service cloud, and on-prem can be incorporated into the environment to measure overall service availability on a single pane of glass.
- Here you can see the environment end-to-end as a series of points of failure, all monitored through Centerity. As I’ve just shown, the Centerity platform is able to monitor the performance data from the connected devices themselves, the connectivity to the edge and the cloud (WiFi, BLE, Zigbee, etc.), and then any IT devices, applications, or databases comprising or connected to the cloud, and ultimately present all that performance data in logical groups according to the industry or business process.
- Enabling this functionality is the federated scalability and multi-tenancy of the architecture and the phenomenal extensibility of the platform’s collector engine and methodologies. The enterprise architecture allows all distributed collector nodes and associated agents to report back to an enterprise node that manages the system. Regardless of where or how the collector nodes are deployed, the user still sees a single pane of glass according to their individual permissions.
- The multi-tenancy allows for environments and services to be accessed and displayed according to user permissions, so users only see what is relevant to them.
- In addition to the extensive OT device connectivity, Centerity has out-of-the-box integrations in place with all of the cutting-edge IT technologies you see here and many more. And you never have to worry about a new technology coming along that can’t be covered, because our flexible plug-ins allow us to build integrations to any technology with connectivity in a matter of hours or days. Your business’s services are constantly changing and incorporating new innovative technologies, so the idea of Centerity is to be ready for those inevitable shifts to make sure you don’t ever have gaps in coverage.
- To recap, Centerity allows you to scan, discover, and add to the system any devices or applications on a network. You can then visualize that environment from end-to-end, correlate performance data from every technology layer, and integrate the platform with any associated service to feed data (e.g. service desk, CRM, etc.). And finally, you can organize the environment and analyze its performance according to the actual services your business provides to its customers.
- Because the Centerity platform can extend to every technology in the Industrial IoT stack,
- Now to put this in the context of Predix, you can see how every point in the framework is visible and unified as a business process within Centerity.