Interoperability and Information Mobility Issues in Industrial Ecosystems

Communication protocols used in industrial ecosystems provide the information with mobility and ubiquitous capabilities. As industrial ecosystems expand to embrace new devices, services or communication technologies, and also due to the increase of the information being exchanged, the interoperability and mobility issues are starting to show up. These issues prevent the interconnection among ecosystems, thus, limiting information mobility. We review these problems arisen from non-standard implementations of communication protocols, and will point out other common problems for these implementations. Finally, we will remark the aspects that should be taken into account when designing methodologies to validate the information exchange mechanisms.