A comparison of the Internet of things and industrial Internet of things reference models

Abstract

The rapidly growth of the Internet of things (IoT) applications lead to billions of the connected to the Internet device around us. Now we can see the next step – Industrial IoT (IIoT) as the fundament of the Industry 4.0 concept. Industrial Control Systems (ICS) widely used in various industrial applications and now we can use Internet to the online monitoring any kind of controlled processes. Industry 4.0 means that product lifecycle will be completely controlled by manufacturers and customers with online tools. IoT and IIoT design and implementation usually based on some rules according to the reference models (RM), which are vary from one application to other.