Method, system, and program storage device for managing tenants in an industrial internet of things

A system comprising:

• one or more hardware processors;
• an instance of an IIoT application operating on an IIoT cloud, the IIoT application coupled to an IIoT machine gathering data from a physical industrial machine not located on the IIoT cloud;
• an instance of a tenant service corresponding to a first tenant of the industrial application, the instance of the tenant service executable by the one or more hardware processors and configured to:
• use a template identified by the industrial application to provision the first tenant with the instance of the industrial application, the service template containing a plurality of service identifications representing a bundle of services assigned to a group in which the first tenant belongs;
• detect a request by the instance of the industrial application for a service identified by a first service name;
• send an electronic credential for the service name to the instance of the industrial application, the credential identifying an electronic address where an instance of the service identified by the first service name resides, the credential established using the service template;
• and
• the IIoT application executable by one or more processors and configured to:
• dynamically call the service identified by the first service name using the electronic address such that the application need not be restarted for a binding to take effect;
• wherein a different instance of the tenant service is created for each tenant of the industrial application and bound to the instance of the industrial application;
• wherein a location of the instance of the tenant service is identified by the instance of the industrial application by performing a lookup;
• wherein the instance of the industrial application operates on the IIoT cloud to provide access to the data gathered by the IIoT machine coupled to the physical industrial machine;
• wherein the data gathered includes time series data captured by one or more sensors on the physical industrial machine.

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions, which when implemented by one or more machines, cause the one or more machines to perform operations, the operations comprising:

• for each of a plurality of tenants:
• creating an instance of a tenant service for the corresponding tenant;
• binding the industrial application to the instance of the tenant service;
• registering a client identification for the corresponding tenant with a user account and authentication (UAA) zone;
• performing a lookup to locate a location of the instance of the tenant service;
• requesting credentials for the tenant from the UAA zone using the client identification;
• retrieving a service template corresponding to a group in which the corresponding tenant belongs, the service template containing a plurality of service identifications representing a bundle of services assigned to the group;
• instantiating an instance of the industrial application for the corresponding tenant;
• at runtime of an instance of the industrial application:
• detecting a request by the instance of the industrial application for a service identified by a first service name;
• retrieving an electronic credential for the service name, the credential identifying an electronic address where an instance of the service identified by the first service name resides;
• and
• dynamically calling the service identified by the first service name using the electronic address such that the application need not be restarted for a binding to take effect;
• wherein the industrial application operates on an IIoT cloud to provide access to data gathered by an IIoT machine coupled to a physical industrial machine;
• wherein the data gathered includes time series data captured by one or more sensors on the physical industrial machine.