You should now have gained an understanding of the scope of GRC and its possible implications when defining an IIoT architecture. In this chapter, we described some of the fundamental concepts in GRC and some of the many relevant international, domestic, and industry standards and certifications that might be considered as you define your architecture. We then briefly described how we would consider GRC in defining our supply chain optimization architecture used as an example in this book.

Existing standards and certifications continue to change over time. Many new standards for IIoT are under consideration, and industry consortia continue to be formed and converge upon new standards. This is particularly true, as the book was being published, in the areas of device discovery and management (and is part of the ongoing work defining the ISO / IEC 30141 standard for the IoT).

Our goal was to introduce this topic to you in this chapter. You should further explore these topics, researching on the relevant standards documentation that exist as you start your project, including the standards that your organization currently embraces and additional standards that would apply. Proper planning at this stage can help assure that you do not introduce incompatible solutions that will require expensive rework later.

Throughout the early chapters of this book, we focused on defining a supply chain optimization solution and the CEMENTruck Inc. example. The Industrial Internet consists of a wide variety of solutions and use cases today. In the next chapter, we will introduce several more examples and describe those in detail.