The Future of DDS
THE FUTURE OF DDS
DDS has proven to be an effective standard to reduce the complexity of designing and integrating large scale mission- and business-critical distributed systems across a large variety of application domains , such as Defense and Aerospace , Transportation , Telecoms , Industrial Automation , and Energy .
The rise of the Internet of Things ( IoT ) has given DDS even more allure . Few other standards — if any at all — are so ubiquitously applicable to address the challenges of securely , efficiently , and transparently sharing information at any scale and in very heterogeneous computing and communication environments .
As a result , in the near future we will see DDS playing an increasing role as the underlying fabric — in a sense the nervous system — of IoT applications , especially in Industrial applications , such as Smart Grids , Smart Transportation , Smart Cities and Smart Factories .
Additionally , upcoming standards such as the eXtremely Resource Constrained Environments ( XRCE ) DDS will expand DDS ’ applicability to very constrained targets , i . e . with less than 100KB of total RAM , connected by constrained networks such as LoWPANS . XRCE DDS is due to provide the most efficient way for providing connectivity to these constrained devices , such as smart sensors or smart lightbulbs , minimizing computation and communication overhead .
In summary , DDS is already a very successful standard powering an incredible number of systems . In the near future we will see an acceleration in the adoption of DDS due to the rise of the IoT . Additionally , upcoming standards such as XRCE-DDS will expand DDS ’ applicability to “ extremely small things ”, thus creating by far the most applicable standard for IoT end-to-end and setting the premises for a massive adoption at a device level .
PrismTech has been involved with defining and evolving the DDS standard since its very early days . This has been an amazing journey , yet only a few steps toward achieving the full potential of the standard . The acceleration in adoption and its growing role as the data-sharing standard for the IIoT have the potential for making DDS an incredible success story .”
- Dr . Angelo Corsaro , Chief Technology Officer , ADLINK Technology Inc ., Chief Technology Officer , PrismTech
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