ODVA to develop standards for a common industrial cloud interface

ODVA's scope of work for developing the Common Industrial Cloud Interface will encompass two elements in the ecosystem for the industrial cloud: a cloud gateway appliance (Gateway) and an application program interface (API) for the transport of data from the Gateway to the cloud and from the cloud back to the ICS and its devices. Based on open and interoperable standards supported by multiple vendors, ODVA's new Common Industrial Cloud Interface will accelerate an architectural transformation inclusive of cloud computing to support device management, process analytics, notifications, remote access, virtualization, visualization and, in the future, control.

Integration of the Common Industrial Cloud Interface into ODVA¹s portfolio of information and communication technologies is one element in ODVA's Optimization 4.0 initiative, the umbrella under which ODVA aggregates its vision of the industrial Internet of Things as it relates to the realization of the fourth industrial revolution. To this end, the Common Industrial Cloud Interface will enable an enterprise architecture inclusive of cloud computing resources, based on industry standards, and will optimize high performance, secure communications between devices, an ICS and the cloud, as well as simplify common tasks that must be performed by the Gateway.

ODVA's view of its cloud ecosystem is agnostic with respect to the deployment of cloud computing resources in off-premise, on premise, public, private and/or hybrid models. Furthermore, ODVA's scope of work for its Common Industrial Cloud Interface excludes services and applications within the cloud itself.