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Use case onboarding is the primary emphasis of an individual facility and its key stakeholders who focus on addressing solutions such as:
Use case onboarding involves five sub-capabilities, as outlined in the following figure and described in this section.
Device onboarding assesses people, process, and technology competencies for onboarding an end-point device such as a gateway, sensor, actuator, camera, machine, process equipment, 3D printer, and any IIoT device. For example, to onboard a sensor, a facility must evaluate its competency to:
Gateway connectivity is focused on evaluating gateway readiness for the:
Network readiness is the availability of network infrastructure that is secure, robust, and reliable for data movement in a multicloud environment, such as the device edge, gateway edge, compute edge, and on-premises or regional data center. The readiness is assessed based on target application performance requirements including latency and bandwidth to support a use case.
Application readiness means the availability of host application to realize the use case functionality. More than one application may be required to satisfy a use case. These applications reside at the compute edge, near edge, or cloud, and are made available in multiple ways, including applications that are:
Compute readiness indicates the availability of compute and storage servers that are required to support the use case functionality. It is evaluated for required workload management based on data volume, data variety, and data velocity.