AVnu Alliance’s Industrial Focus to Open New Paths Across the Industrial Internet

AVnu Alliance (Alliance), the industry consortium driving open standards-based deterministic networking through certification, has announced the creation of a new Industrial market segment. The move appears to be based, in part, on standard Ethernet’s expanded range, functionality and application with the evolution of the Audio Video Bridging (AVB) standard into Time Sensitive Networking (TSN).  Those new TSN capabilities, in turn, provide the industrial community with the ability to use standard Ethernet to support highly reliable and precise synchronized networking appropriate for industrial control.

Along with the news of its expansion into the industrial control market, the Alliance also announced three new members: Belden, with its Hirschmann, Tofino Security, GarrettCom and Lumberg Automation brands, is a leader in mission-critical industrial network infrastructure. General Electric (GE), is leader in the creation of infrastructure with advanced technologies to safely and reliably distribute, protect and control electricity. National Instruments (NI) is a leading test, measurement and embedded-systems provider for engineers and scientists.

Editor’s Note: AVnu Alliance is responsible for guiding the specification for new applications to simplify the process for engineers and designers to build products. It had previously announced support for TSN in automotive applications (i.e., drive-by-wire and autonomous driving). According to the organization, the Industrial sector, a market estimated to be worth $150 billion annually, parallels the type of work that Alliance members have been doing in the Automotive sector, and creates a pathway to the future of the Internet of Things (IoT) and, for end-users across industry, the Industrial Internet.

The Alliance ‘s Industrial Advisory Council has been established to help manufacturers and end-users learn more about the organization and standards, as well as become involved in shaping the future of industrial networking. For information, contact administration@AVnu.org.