Despite a spate of initiatives and alliances around the Industrial IoT (IIoT), there is a sense of chipping around the edges and gathering low hanging fruit rather than driving broader collaboration across the field. There have been a few wider collaborative activities aimed at drawing in larger numbers of partners in all relevant sectors spanning the field, but so far these seem to be at the stage of identifying and overcoming obstacles to progress. Such constraints are both technological and commercial, since collaboration is required between enterprises that are either unfamiliar in dealing with each other, or wary of partnering because they are competitors. Neither of these barriers are insurmountable, because technical issues are already being overcome, while necessary collaboration…