Architecting the Industrial Internet

Integration

The components and applications in an IIoT solution produce varied data specific to their respective functions. This data was traditionally retained in their respective silos in field locations. To achieve a more thorough understanding of the business, data integration across these silos is required. For example, in telecom companies, revenue leakage occurs when calling services are provided, but these billable calls are not passed on to the billing system. Integrating network usage data, linked to devices with the billing systems, can uncover these unbilled calls.

Traditional systems use a process of extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) to extract data from one or more source systems, integrate and transform the data, ...