This document delivers the first release of the i4Q RA, representing the first output of Task 2.1. T2.1 “i4Q Reference Framework” is devoted to the design of an architecture for IoT-based Reliable Industrial Data Services (RIDS) ready to deal with large amounts of data. To this purpose, the conceptualisation of the i4Q Reference Architecture follows the ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 “Systems and software engineering – Architecture”, starting from a deep understanding and alignment among the most common reference architectures in the manufacturing domain.
On the other hand, this document goes deeper into the state of the art and presents an analysis of the most recent releases of some relevant standard reference architectures for digital industries, industrial IoT and edge computing - namely those from the Platform Industrie 4.0 initiative (RAMI 4.0), the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIRA and OpenFog RA), the Big Data Value Association (BDVA RA), Digital Factory Alliance Initiative (Digital Service RA), the ISO Standard for Internet of Things (ISO / IEC 30141).
