Data Exchange Standard for Industrial Internet of Things

Industrial Internet of things is becoming a boon to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) offering after-sales services such as condition-based maintenance and extended warranty for their products. These companies leverage novel digital information infrastructures to improve daily industrial activities, including data collection, remote monitoring and advanced condition-based maintenance services. The emergence of digital infrastructure and new business prospects via servi-tization and quality services encourage companies to collect vast amounts of data that have been generated in different stages of product lifecycles. Despite of the potential benefits, companies are unable to fully harness the opportunities presented by digital information infrastructure because there exist several platforms with variations in technologies and standards resulting in interoperability challenges. This becomes particularly critical when a company sells its products to several clients with different technologies. To overcome such challenges, we investigate the Open Messaging Interface (O-MI) and Open Data Format (O-DF), flexible messaging and data exchange standards that enable seamless integration of different systems. These standards enable interoperability and support time-centric, event-centric, and rate-centric modes of data exchange.