OPC Foundation and M2M Alliance form joint working group
OPC基金會和M2M聯盟成立聯合工作組

March 20, 2017 - The M2M & OPCF user group has been founded in order to document and spread best practices for building secure communication solutions and smart services based on device and machine data.

2017年3月20日——為了記錄和傳播基于設備和機器數據構建安全通信解決方案和智能服務的最佳實踐，M2M和OPC基金會用戶組成立。

Today’s devices and machines produce high-value data. For example, a production machine logs at which time it is used. However, the available data only becomes viable if it can be processed and used to improve a product, to offer a service, or to reduce the costs. For example, knowing the utilization of production systems can be used for offering overcapacities of the production system to other parties. Currently, the value of the available data is lost as the data is locked within its source.

如今的設備和機器產生高價值的數據，比如，生產機器可以記錄其使用時間段。不過，只有通過處理和使用可用數據來改進產品、提供服務或降低成本，現有數據才可行。例如，知道生產系統的利用率可以用于將生產系統的過剩產能提供給其他地方。目前，數據一旦束縛于其源頭，可用數據的價值就大大浪費。

Communication enables remote accessing to and processing of the data. Internet-based smart services enable new business cases, like production as a service, which mine the value of the available data. A prerequisite for smart services is that devices, machines, and smart services exchange data in a secure way. Otherwise, data, machines, and devices might get compromised or the value of the data is monetarized by external parties.

通信可以遠程訪問和處理數據。基于互聯網的智能服務可以實現新的業務案例，如生產即服務，挖掘可用數據的價值。智能服務的先決條件是設備、機器和智能服務以安全的方式交換數據。否則，數據、機器和設備可能會受到損害，或者數據的價值由外部方獲得收益。

Device and machine builders must ensure the data integrity and the data confidentially. Furthermore, they must guarantee that the sovereignty of the data remains to the data owner. Currently, many devices and machine builders struggling with these security challenges. Thereby, they give away the ability to use the data to improve their own products, services, and to reduce their costs. Nevertheless, the information to build secure solutions already exists within the M2M Alliance and the OPC Foundation (OPCF).

設備和機器制造商必須保證數據的完整性和數據的保密性。此外，他們必須保證數據的主權仍然由數據所有者擁有。目前，許多設備和機器制造商都在努力應對這些安全挑戰。因此，他們放棄了使用數據來改進自己的產品、服務和降低成本的能力。不過，M2M聯盟和OPC基金會已經決定為此搭建安全的解決方案。