The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has announced its new Industry Connect Service (ICS) pilot project, which will see the IIC play matchmaker between industrialists that have a desire and the vendors that can provide that service. It is pitching this as open to all, regardless of size, with the lessons learned being fed back to the community by the IIC. The new strategy seems like an attempt to inject some pace into the market, and comes only a week after the IIC released a joint white paper with OneM2M. The industrial sector is a bit of a contradiction in the IoT. It is one of the most advanced fields, but simultaneously, it is an island unto itself, where many would…