China Signs IoT Interop Plan

Deal expands network of global agreements

By Rick Merritt, EETimes,, Nov. 08, 2016 – SAN JOSE, Calif. - China has agreed to align any national standards for the industrial Internet of Things with the work of the industry-led Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC). The deal is the latest of a handful the IIC hopes to knit into a global framework for IoT.

The IIC signed the memorandum of understanding with an academy under China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Wednesday. It already struck similar deals with German officials responsible for its Industrie 4.0 initiative as well as officials in Japan with a similar program.

Next on the list are deals in France, Chile, Kazakstan and other governments with national IoT programs. Beyond that, the IIC aims to add agreements making the deals multilateral so the IIC becomes an international hub of collaboration on IoT interoperability.

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