インダストリアルIoTに関する日米独の最新動向

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This article reported on the latest industry-level activities and national policies of Industrial IoT in US, Germany and Japan.

All of the three countries positioned the development of Industrial IoT in the higher-level policies to make solutions toward social challenges, but their approaches are different. US takes an approach from IT, based on their remarkable IT competency and data analysis techniques. On the other hand, Germany and Japan take an approach from manufacturing, based on their manufacturing factories in the world. Those Industrial IoT-related activities establishes a partnership with each other and also with other players like China to bring their own advantages together.

It is considered that there are at least two common elements among the activities. One is the marketing that the function is much more enhanced to reduce uncertainty of market and technology and explore partnership. The other is "value co-creation scheme" such as reference architecture and test bed which enables members to design a new ecosystem beforehand from the perspective of open and close strategy.