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NIST Releases Draft Framework For Cyber Physical Systems Developers

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015

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NIST Releases Draft Framework For Cyber Physical Systems Developers

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on Friday released a draft Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) Framework document for public comment meant to help manufacturers create new systems that can work with other smart physical-computational systems.Cyber Physical Systems are “smart systems that include engineered interacting networks of physical and computational components,” the draft framework said.CPS is related to the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet that are all recognized as having great potential to allow innovating applications and…

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