Trusted IoT Alliance merges with Industrial Internet Consortium

Last Friday, The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) announced it is joining forces with the Trusted IoT Alliance (TIoTA) to combine memberships and drive industry collaboration.Members of the two organizations will now work under the IIC to research, develop and promote practices relating to internet of things (IoT) systems including blockchain. Founded in 2014, US-based IIC fosters the use of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), while TIoTA has been working on integrating distributed ledger technologies (DLT) and IoT. TIoTA started three years after the IIC and boasts members such as the IOTA Foundation, Chronicled, ConsenSys, Bosch, Siemens, Cisco and KPMG.