THE IIOT DISRUPTION
The IIoT Disruption
Gartner , the world ’ s leading information technology research and advisory company , predicts that the Smart Machine era will be the most disruptive in the history of IT . That disruption will be led by smart , distributed infrastructure called the Industrial Internet of Things ( IIoT ).
While it will grow slower than the Consumer IoT , the IIoT will eventually have much larger economic impact . The IIoT will bring entirely new infrastructures to our most critical and impactful societal systems . Truly intelligent distributed machines will greatly improve function and efficiency across virtually all industries , including healthcare , transportation , energy , communications , and industrial control . The IIoT is crucial to the strategic future of most companies , even traditionally slow-moving industrial infrastructure providers . The dawn of a new age is clear .
DDS is the best open middleware standard for high-throughput and real-time applications available today . From the application layer down to the wire protocol , DDS has been architected to deliver the performance and dependability that modern Internet of Things ( IoT ) applications need as they scale up to span the globe , and scale out to incorporate individual embedded sensors and actuators . Life-saving medical devices , global stock trading systems , international air traffic control and power generation systems are just four of the many highly-reliable business-critical applications where DDS is in use today . EMC technology and products are architected to solve these most critical problems and DDS plays an important role in providing these solutions .”
- Dr . Said Tabet , Chief Architect for IOT Solutions , EMC
THE IIOT DISRUPTION
Unlike connecting consumer devices , the IIoT will control expensive , mission-critical systems . Thus , the requirements are very different . Reliability is often a huge challenge . The consequences of a security breach are vastly more profound for the power grid than for a home thermostat . Existing systems are already networked in some fashion , and interfacing with these legacy “ brownfield ” designs is a key blocking factor . Plus , unlike consumer devices that are mostly small networks , industrial plants , electrical systems or transportation grids will encompass many thousands or millions of interconnected points .
GE ’ s CEO , Jeff Immelt , famously said that if you go to bed an industrial company , you will wake up a software and analytics company . But , software and analytics can ’ t help industrial systems without data . True disruption requires a single data communications architecture that delivers the right data at the right time , spans sensor to cloud , interoperates between vendors , and crosses industries . That common technology will replace today ’ s mashup of special-purpose standards and technologies with an interoperable future . Data-centric communication based on DDS offers a scalable , reliable , fast , and secure infrastructure for the hugely connected new world .
DDS technologies provide a great foundation for secure dynamic distributed systems ; with both publish-subscribe and RPC architectures , and too many features to list , it is a proven high-performance communications platform .”
- Clark Tucker , President and CEO , Twin Oaks Computing , Inc .
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