OPC Foundation and M2M Alliance form joint working group
OPC基金会和M2M联盟成立联合工作组

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——为了记录和传播基于设备和机器数据构建安全通信解决方案和智能服务的最佳实践，M2M和OPC基金会用户组成立。

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.

如今的设备和机器产生高价值的数据，比如，生产机器可以记录其使用时间段。不过，只有通过处理和使用可用数据来改进产品、提供服务或降低成本，现有数据才可行。例如，知道生产系统的利用率可以用于将生产系统的过剩产能提供给其他地方。目前，数据一旦束缚于其源头，可用数据的价值就大大浪费。

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.

通信可以远程访问和处理数据。基于互联网的智能服务可以实现新的业务案例，如生产即服务，挖掘可用数据的价值。智能服务的先决条件是设备、机器和智能服务以安全的方式交换数据。否则，数据、机器和设备可能会受到损害，或者数据的价值由外部方获得收益。

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).

设备和机器制造商必须保证数据的完整性和数据的保密性。此外，他们必须保证数据的主权仍然由数据所有者拥有。目前，许多设备和机器制造商都在努力应对这些安全挑战。因此，他们放弃了使用数据来改进自己的产品、服务和降低成本的能力。不过，M2M联盟和OPC基金会已经决定为此搭建安全的解决方案。