Connectivity platform fosters open architecture for IIoT

Connext DDS is designed to address the performance, scale and resilience requirements of the IIoT. The middleware delivers the low-latency and real-time QoS needed to monitor and control physical-world processes.

Furthermore, it provides the non-stop availability and security essential for mission-critical systems. Connext DDS provides a rich set of connectivity capabilities optimised for IIoT systems, such as messaging libraries, an adapter framework and powerful tools. Unlike a traditional database, Connext DDS is a completely decentralised software data bus.

The connectivity platform supports all of the fundamental communication patterns used in the IIoT. Given the long lifecycles of industrial systems, it is well-suited to incremental adoption. The scalable, reliable and secure integration bus connects new and existing assets. RTI Connext DDS provides order-of-magnitude performance and reliability advantages over most other messaging and integration middleware on every supported platform.

Connext DDS complies with the OMG (Object Management Group) DDS (Data Distribution Service) for Real-Time Systems standard. It supports both the DDS API (Application Programming Interface) and network interoperability protocol (DDSI-RTPS). DDS is the only messaging standard designed specifically to meet the requirements of timing-critical systems. It can deliver over 50 times the performance of IT standards such as JMS, MQTT, AMQP, XMPP and Web Services.

Connext DDS Professional includes a powerful set of capabilities to develop and integrate distributed applications.