What Does Interoperability Mean for the IoT?
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The document discusses the significance of interoperability in the Internet of Things (IoT), particularly within the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and its impact on various industries. It highlights the role of RTI (Real-Time Innovations) in facilitating interoperability through the DDS (Data Distribution Service) standard, which allows seamless data communication across diverse systems and devices. The document emphasizes the need for a unified architecture to enable efficient integration of data across vendors, platforms, and applications, ultimately driving the next industrial revolution.
What Does Interoperability Mean for the IoT?
- 1. What does Interoperability Mean for the IoT? Stan Schneider, RTI CEO IIC Steering Committee Member
- 2. ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc. The smart machine era will be the most disruptive in the history of IT -- Gartner 2015
- 3. What is the Internet of Things? ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc. Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)Consumer Internet of Things (CIoT) Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
- 4. World Economic Forum 2015 • The Industrial Internet will transform many industries, including: – Manufacturing – Oil and gas – Agriculture – Mining – Transportation – Healthcare • …and dwarf the consumer side • Collectively, these account for nearly two- thirds of the world economy ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc.
- 5. 160+ companies Goal: build and prove a common architecture that interoperates between vendors and across industries
- 6. 160+ Companies, 22 Countries
- 7. The Industrial Internet Consortium • Ground Zero for the IIoT: 160+ members • RTI role – Data management (lead), security (co-lead), use case (lead), architecture, marketing, liaison, safety – RTI CEO elected to Steering Committee (board) – Lead 4 testbeds ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc.
- 8. RTI’s Experience • Designed into over $1 T of IIoT – Healthcare – Transportation – Communications – Energy – Industrial – Defense • 15+ Standards & Consortia Efforts – Interoperability – Multi-vendor ecosystems ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc.
- 9. RTI Named Most Influential IIoT Company ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc.
- 10. IIoT Interoperability Challenges ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc.
- 11. Interoperable Open Architecture Across Systems • Next-generation of – Lockheed Aegis – Raytheon DDG 1000 – Raytheon SSDS – LCS (Lockheed and GDAIS) – Raytheon LPD-17 – Many more, US and allies • Highly distributed systems include radar, weapons, displays, controls • Data-centric middleware breaks vendor lock-in, drives interoperability ,and future-proofs the architectural design ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc.
- 12. Plug-n-Play Interoperability Across Vendors • Audi hardware-in-the-loop simulation feeds realistic data to components for testing • The system offers plug-n-play between simulation vendor solutions • Data centricity enables a modular test environment that scales to work with hundreds of devices ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc.
- 13. Interoperate Between Intelligence and Legacy • The VW Driver Assistance and Integrated Safety system combines radars, proximity sensors, and video to assist safe operation • It helps avoid obstacles, detect lane departures, track eye activity, and safely negotiate bends • The V-Charge program demoed an auto-charging and parking vehicle in 2014 • The system integrates with existing CANbus through VW Cargate™ ECU • Data centric middleware enables advanced reactive systems in transportation ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xQfKTAtyNU
- 14. Interoperate Between Product Lines ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc. Revolution® "GE Healthcare chose the DDS standard because it can handle many classes of intelligent machines. RTI Connext DDS satisfies the demanding requirements of our devices and supports standardization on a single communications platform across product lines." -- J Gustavo Perez, General Manager for MI&CT Engineering
- 15. Interoperate Between Connected Devices • Hospital error is the 6th leading cause of preventable death • The Integrated Clinical Environment (ICE) standard specifies interoperability for medical devices • DDS ties together many classes of devices from many vendors ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc. “RTI Connext DDS met all our needs – whether we’re handling 12 patients, or 200.” -- DocBox Founder, Tracy Rausch
- 16. Interoperate Across Large Systems ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc. 1000s of patients, >100k devices
- 17. Interoperate Between Control Systems • NASA KSC uses RTI for the launch control SCADA for Orion • 300k points, at 400k msgs/sec • Launch control, in-flight monitoring, UAV tracking ground station, LPD recovery ship…all run DDS • DDS connects thousands of sensors and actuators ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc.
- 18. Interoperate Device-to-Cloud • Eze Software delivers financial trading software to more than 1,500 buy-side and sell- side institutions in 30 countries • DDS enables cloud connectivity for the Eze financial trading platform. ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc. Analytics Connext TCP (WAN) Client Client Client Client Logging Redundant, Load- Balanced Reliable Multicast Data Center Cloud Gateway Processor Gateway Processor Gateway Processor Gateway Processor Load Balancer (F5) ConnextInputBus Connext Processing Bus Monitor QueueQueueIn-memory workflow
- 19. Interoperate Between Teams • Raytheon uses RTI middleware to control the new Zumwalt DDG 1000 destroyer • DDS coordinates and manages complex, diverse onboard hardware and software systems • The system connects hundreds of computers, 1500 teams building thousands of applications, and more than 10m publish- subscribe pairs • Data centric middleware extends real-time scalability ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc.
- 20. Interoperate Between Plant Components • DDS controls the 6.8 GW GC Dam – Largest power plant in North America – Fastest-responding major power source on the Western Grid – Requires 24x7 operation • DDS met the challenges – Extreme availability – Wide area communications – Multi-level routing – High security – 300k data values • RTI system live since Jan 2014 ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc.
- 21. Interoperate Between Vendor Components of a Solution Goals • Efficiently use solar, wind, & EVs • Create an open marketplace • Prove viability DataBus Leads • RTI: DDS middleware and system integration • NI: Engineering software and hardware • Cisco: Grid communications Phases 1. Proof of Concept at National Instruments 2. Realistic simulation at Southern Cal Edison 3. Live test at CPS Energy San Antonio Grid of the Future
- 22. Data Centricity Enables Interoperability ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc.
- 23. ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc. Comic from xkcd.com
- 24. Data Centric is Different! © 2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc. Point-to-Point TCP Sockets Publish/Subscribe Fieldbus CANbus Queuing AMQP Active MQ Data-Centric DDS Shared Data Model DataBus Client/Server MQTT REST XMPP OPC Brokered ESB Daemon
- 25. It’s All About the Data Data centricity enables interoperation, scale, integration ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc. Unstructured files Database Data Centricity Data at Rest Messaging middleware DataBus Data Centricity Data in Motion
- 26. Data Centric is the Opposite of OO Object Oriented • Encapsulate data • Expose methods Data Centric • Encapsulate methods • Expose data Explicit Shared Data Model ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc.
- 27. Data Centricity Enables Interoperability • Global Data Space – Automatic discovery – Read & write data in any OS, language, transport – Redundant sources/sinks/nets • Type Aware • No Servers • QoS control – Timing, Reliability, Ownership, Redundancy, Filtering, Security ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc. Shared Global Data Space DDS DataBus Patient Hx Device Identity Devices SupervisoryCDS Physiologic State NursingStation Cloud Offer: Write this 1000x/sec Reliable for 10 secs Request: Read this 10x/sec If patient = “Joe”
- 28. Why Choose DDS? • Reliability: Severe consequences if offline for 5 minutes? • Performance/scale: – Measure in ms or µs? – Or scale > 20+ applications or 10+ teams? – Or 10k+ data values? • Architecture: Code active lifetime >3 yrs? ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc. 2 or 3 Checks?
- 29. Interoperability of the Word “Interoperability” “Interoperability” is meaningless without “between” ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc.
- 30. Interoperability Between Language, OS, Chip ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc. C on VxWorks ppc C# on Windows x86 Java on Android C++ on Linux Labview on Windows Excel on Windows Node.js on Cloud JavaScript in Browser DDS Databus Serialize native types to implement data model on standard wire protocol
- 31. Interoperability Between Data Models • Proximity • Platform • Language • Physical network • Transport protocol • Network topology ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc. DDS “DataBus” Seamless data sharing regardless of: Explicit Shared Data Model with Controlled QoS
- 32. Interoperability Between Networks ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc. Image Store Machine Domain Scanner HMI Machine Net Gantry Servo Machine Control (SRIO) Emitter Control Dosage Monitor ECG Sync Scanner Control Power System Patient Status Image Domain Image Databus Image Generation Scanner Data Acquisition Bridge data model and QoS across network types
- 33. Interoperability Between Devices Map unique devices to standard, common data model ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc.
- 34. Interoperability Between Standard Implementations ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc. OCI ETRI PrismTech IBM RTI TwinOaks
- 35. Unit DataBus Unit DataBus Interoperability Between IT & OT • Connect… – Fast – Seamless – QoS controlled – Secure – Data centric • Across 80 Platforms… • Over 12 Transports ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc. Intelligent Machines Intelligent Systems Intelligent Industrial Internet Cloud DataBus Site DataBus Intelligent System of Systems Unit DataBus Sense Act Think HMI Machine DataBus Think HMI Machine DataBus Sense Act Think HMI Machine DataBus Hide Sensor- Cloud complex topology behind a single logical DataBus
- 36. Interoperability Between Subsystems & Protocols • Bridge – Data models – Protocols – Security domains • Isolate subsystems – Control export – Filter access – Translate models ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc. Other protocols Routing Service Pluggable Adapters Transformation Engine System Super System Subsystem Subsystem Subsystem Subsystem
- 37. Interoperability Between Security Entities • Per-Topic Security – Control r,w access for each function – Ensures proper dataflow operation • Complete Protection – Discovery authentication – Data-centric access control – Cryptography – Tagging & logging – Non-repudiation – Secure multicast – 100% standards compliant • No code changes! • Plugin architecture for advanced uses ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc. CBM AnalysisPMU Control Operator State Alarms SetPoint Topic Security model: • PMU: State(w) • CBM: State(r); Alarms(w) • Control: State(r), SetPoint(w) • Operator: *(r), Setpoint(w)
- 38. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_interoperability Bridge transports transparently Physical Standard protocols (DDS) “Typesafe” shared schema (IDL/XML) Industry-specific, standard data models Interoperability Recommendation ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc. Interoperability is about sharing Data Model and QoS
- 39. The Real Challenge: Span the IIoT ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc. …the “Industrial Internet” <will> start the next Industrial Revolution. Joe Salvo, GE; Founder of the IIC The real value is an architecture that spans industries and unites sensor to cloud.
- 40. Build the Right Future ©2015 Real-Time Innovations, Inc.