Blueprint for the Industrial Internet of Things Originally presented on April 23, 2015. Watch replay: http://ecast.opensystemsmedia.com/542

1. Blueprint for the Industrial Internet of Things
Architectural Challenge & Approach
Stan Schneider, RTI CEO
IIC Steering Committee

2. What a Waste!
Communication Changes Everything

3. The smart machine era will be the most disruptive in the history of IT
-- Gartner 2015

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

5. The IIoT in Microcosm: Ultrasound Imagers
1991 2015

6. Transform Product Architectures
”BK Medical is truly redefining
Medical Ultrasound Imaging
The traditional single user /
single system approach is being
replaced with fully scalable and
distributed multi-user systems
…we selected the RTI Connext
DDS middleware as this gives us
all the flexibility and the
abstraction layer needed for the
future of Analogic Ultrasound”
-- Jesper Lomborg Manigoff, VP of
Engineering, Analogic Global
Ultrasound

7. Back office
Device, could
be wireless
View
anywhere
Cloud-based
analytics

8. DataBus
Distributed Ultrasound
Private cloud
Public cloud
Raw
Image
Secure

9. RTI’s Experience
• Designs exceed $1T
– Healthcare
– Transportation
– Communications
– Energy
– Industrial
– Defense
• 15+ Standards &
Consortia Efforts

10. Goal: build and prove a
common architecture
that interoperates
between vendors and
across industries
RTI’s role
Data management (lead), security (co-lead), use case
(lead), architecture, marketing
RTI CEO elected to Steering Committee (board)
Lead 4 testbeds

11. RTI Named Most Influential IIoT Company

12. IIoT Architectural
Challenges

13. Integrate Intelligent Systems
• The VW Driver Assistance
and Integrated Safety
system combines radars,
laser range finders, and
video to assist safe
operation
• The V-Charge program
demoed a self-driving
vehicle in 2014
• The system integrates with
existing CANbus through
VW Cargate™ ECU
• RTI enables advanced
reactive systems in
transportation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xQfKTAtyNU

14. Facilitate Plug-n-Play 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
• RTI middleware enables a modular
test environment that scales to
work with hundreds of devices

15. Interoperability between Subsystems
• 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
• Standards-based, data-centric
architecture breaks vendor
lock-in, drives interoperability
,and future-proofs the
architectural design

16. Provide a Common Platform
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

17. Improve Safety by Connecting Devices
• Hospital error is the 6th
leading cause of
preventable death
• The Integrated Clinical
Environment (ICE)
standard specifies
interoperability for
medical devices
• RTI Connext DDS ties
together many classes of
devices from many
vendors
“RTI Connext DDS met all our needs – whether
we’re handling 12 patients, or 200.”
-- DocBox Founder, Tracy Rausch

18. Control Mission-Critical Operations
• NASA KSC uses RTI for the
launch control SCADA for
Orion
• RTI delivered 300k points,
at 400k msgs/sec with 5x
the required throughput,
at 1/5 the needed latency
• Launch control, in-flight
monitoring, UAV tracking
ground station, LPD
recovery ship…all run RTI
DDS
• DDS connects thousands of
sensors and actuators

19. Work in Harsh Environments
• Joy Mining is the
world’s largest
mining equipment
manufacturer
• RTI Connext DDS
connects the
controller, operator
GUI, and historian
• Reliable, fast
connectivity
enables control,
debugging, and
system health
monitoring for
continuous mining

20. Create Software-Defined Machines
• RTI provides fast
backplane
communications for
telecom equipment
• RTI & Cisco recently
submitted an RFI for
Software Defined
Networking (SDN) to OMG
• RTI can update thousands
of switches in one action
• RTI Connext DDS supports
1000s of apps, 50k+
namespaces

21. Implement Multiple Security Boundaries
• System Boundary
• Network Transport
– Media access (layer 2)
– Network (layer 3) security
– Session/Endpoint (layer 4/5) security
• Host
– Machine/OS/Applications/Files
• Data & Information flows

22. Deliver Demanding Security
• The USS SECURE
cybersecurity test bed is a
collaboration between:
– The National Security Agency
– Department of Defense
Information Assurance Range
Quantico
– Combat Systems Direction
Activity Dam Neck
– NSWCDD
– NSWC Carderock/Philadelphia
– Office of Naval Research
– Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Lab
– Real Time Innovations, Inc.
• Objectives
– Immunize against cyberattack
and to rapidly recover when
impacted
– Determine the best
cyberdefense technologies
without impacting real time
deadline scheduled
performance
http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=79228

23. Enable Massive Scalability
• Raytheon uses RTI middleware
to control the new Zumwalt
DDG 1000 destroyer
• RTI DDS coordinates and
manages complex, diverse
onboard hardware and
software systems
• RTI connects hundreds of
computers, thousands of
applications, and more than
10m publish-subscribe pairs
• RTI middleware extends real-
time scalability

24. Unit DataBus
Unit DataBus
Sense Act
Think HMI
Machine DataBus
Think HMI
Machine DataBus
• Connect…
– Fast
– Seamless
– QoS controlled
– Secure
– Data centric
• From Sensor to
Cloud
• Across 80
Platforms…
• Over 12
Transports
Intelligent
Machines
Intelligent
Systems
Intelligent
Industrial
Internet
Cloud DataBus
Intelligent
System of
Systems Site DataBus
Sense Act
Think HMI
Machine DataBus
Unit DataBus
Hide
Complex
Topology
behind a
Single
logical
DataBus
Optimize with Analytics

25. Distribute Control
• Siemens Wind Power fields farms
of 500 turbines with 100m blades
• DDS implements fast control
within turbines and gust control
across the array and reporting for
predictive maintenance

26. Modernize Critical Infrastructure
• 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 meets the challenges
– Extreme availability
– Wide area communications
– Multi-level routing
– High security
– 300k data values
• RTI system live since Jan 2014

27. Move Intelligence to the Edge
MicroGrids connect generation,
load, and storage to optimize
usage and eliminate traditional
grid infrastructure
21st Century Distributed Structure
20th Century Central Structure

28. Span the IIoT with a Common Architecture
…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.

29. IIoT Architectural Approach

30. Communications Evolution
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
CORBA
Brokered
Daemon

31. It’s All About the Data
Data centricity enables interoperation, scale, integration
Unstructured files
Database
Data Centricity Data at Rest
Messaging middleware
DataBus
Data Centricity Data in Motion

32. Data Centric is the Opposite of OO
Object Oriented
• Encapsulate data
• Export methods
Data Centric
• Encapsulate methods
• Export data
Explicit
Shared
Data
Model

33. Data-Centric Connection = Data-Path Control
• Global Data Space
– Automatic discovery
– Read & write data in
any OS, language,
transport
– Redundant
sources/sinks/nets
• Type Aware
• QoS control
– Timing, Reliability,
Ownership,
Redundancy,
Filtering, Security
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”

34. The Future is Intelligent, Distributed Machines

35. Get Started in the Industrial Internet of Things
• RTI FastTrax IIoT
Strategic Consulting
– Architectural guidance
– Security design
– Cloud integration
– Business objectives

36. For More Information
• RTI site: www.rti.com
• Examples, forum, papers: community.rti.com
• IIC website: www.iiconsortium.org
• Email: stan@rti.com
• Connect on LinkedIn
• Free RTI Connext DDS Pro:
www.rti.com/downloads