Industrial Internet Consortium, Edge Computing Consortium Sign Memorandum of Understanding

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), the world's leading organization transforming business and society by accelerating the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and the Edge Computing Consortium (ECC), a world leading organization driving edge computing industry development in the Internet of Things (IoT) area, announced they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to partner on shared interests of advancing the industrial Internet and edge computing. Under the agreement, the consortia will work together to maximize interoperability and portability for the industrial Internet.

Joint activities between the IIC and the ECC will include identifying and sharing IIoT best practices, collaborating on test beds and research and development projects, and collaborating on standardization.

"We are very excited about the cooperation between ECC and the IIC. We believe that an in-depth exploration of edge computing technology used in the industrial internet area will better meet the industrial customers end-to-end needs to promote the global industry digitization transformation." - Mr. Haibin YU, Chairman of ECC

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