Edge-controlled, cloud-connected:
Design patterns for the IIoT
John Breitenbach
Field Applications Engineer

Agenda
• Fitbits and Hyperloops
• Forecast: Cloudy, with widely scattered latency
• The “Big 3” design patterns from IIC
• Deep dive: Layered Databus
• Demo!
• Q&(maybe)A
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My (Easy) Definitions
• Cloud
– An elastic computing environment in a $b data center
• IT (Information Technology)
– Software that runs in the cloud & sysadmins/CIOs who manage it
• Things
– Any physical device or system that has computing.
• OT (Operational Technology)
– Computing that actually controls and powers “things” and engineers
who build them
• Edge
– IT’s collapsed view of the real world not in the cloud
• Fog
– Computing that makes OT things intelligent with distributed or elastic
computing not in a data center. Usually layered.
• IoT
– All of the above
• IIoT
– IoT that consumers don’t buy (except AD cars)
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Fitbits & Hyperloops
Consumer vs Industrial IoT

The Industrial IoT is a Smart Machine Infrastructure
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Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)Consumer Internet of Things (CIoT)

IIoT Application Types
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Device
Monitoring Edge
Autonomy
Databus
Databus
Analytic
Optimization

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Forecast: Cloudy
With widely scattered latency…

The problem with the cloud
• You can’t always see it
• It’s expensive to get there and back
– Time
– Volume
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The Expense of Time: Autonomous Car
• At 40 MPH a car moves roughly 60 feet in a second
– Or about 1 ft/17 milliseconds
– 23 ft in the blink of an eye (400 ms)
• Time to cloud server
– 20 ms to 2 seconds
– Widely variable
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The Expense of Volume: Autonomous Car
• Data generated by autonomous car: 12 Gb/second
– Cameras: 2.5-20 Gbit/s
– Lidar: 30-300 Mbit/s
– Radar, ultrasonic, GPS: 30kB/s
• 5G data rate
– 100 Mbps (cell edge)
– 10 Gb/s (theoretical)
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Edge control: why you need it
• Latency, latency, latency!
• Throughput
• Data volume
• Safety
• Resiliency
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Woot! Demo!
Edge control

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DDS DataBus
pixytracker
app
USB
Circle
Servo
Servo
Circle

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The IIC’s Big 3
Design Patterns for the IIoT

The IIC’s Design Big 3 Design Patterns
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Three Tier Pattern
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Gateway Mediated Pattern
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Layered Databus Pattern
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Deep Dive:
Layered Databus

In-Car Platform
V2V & V2X
Public Internet
Fleet Management
Sensor-to-Cloud
• End-User Applications
• Connect with RESTful/Web Sockets
• Traffic Management
• Traffic Light Control
• Congestion Management
• Road Management
• Environmental & Road Conditions
• Probe Data Collection (Sensors)
• Environmental Weather
• Dynamic Vehicle Location
• Collision Avoidance
• Navigation
• Safety Certified
UnifiedDataModel
Cloud Databus
Machine Databus
Site Databus
Sense Act
Think HMI
Unit Databus
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Layered Databus for Surgical Robotics
System
Controls
HMI Robotic
Instruments
Sensors /
Actuators
System
Controls
HMI
Image Processing Databus
MIRS System Databus
Hospital Enterprise DatabusPatient Monitoring Databus
Robotics Control Databus
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Layered Databus for Healthcare IoT
FogEdgeIT/Cloud
vMobile
HIS PACS LIS
Cloud Server
GATEWAY to Ward DatabusRoom Systems
Apps
Database
Ward
Medical
Device
System
Apps
Clinical
Apps
Medical
Device
Imaging
Device
Surgical
Robot
GATEWAY to Enterprise Databus
GATEWAY to CloudADTEMR
Clinical
Apps
Database
Patient Room, Operating Room or ICU Databus (DDS)
Data LakeSystems
Apps
Robotic
Nurse
Robotics
UnifiedDataModel
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Ward Databus (DDS)
IT Systems/Enterprise Databus (DDS)

Layered Databus for NASA KSC Launch Control
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Recording Services Persistence Service
Real-Time Monitoring Domain
Control-Pad Bridge
Routing Service HMI
HMI
HMI
Event Domain
Recording Services
Sensor(s)
Persistence
Service
Event Domain
Event Domain
Event Domain
Event Domain

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Woot! More Demo!
Layered Databus: Sensor to Cloud

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DDS DataBus
Routing
Service
Amazon Web Services
Routing
ServiceDDS DataBus
Web
Integration
Service
DDSDataBus
(TCPtoAWS)
pixytracker
app
USB
Circle
Servo
Servo
Circle
The
Interweb
RESTful

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The Network is the App;
The Data is the Interface
Databus 101

Databus “Data Everywhere” Abstraction
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• Doesn’t actually send all
data…
• Every application gets
everything it needs, when
it needs it
– Applications declare
needs and capabilities
– Databus delivers data
• Applications interface only
to data
– Every app speaks its own
language
– Databus maps language,
CPU, OS, transport
• Fast, reliable, scalable
Shared Global Data Space
DDS DataBus
Data
Topic
Type
QoS
Data
Topic
Type
QoS
Data
Topic
Type
QoS
Naturally, massively parallel
This really is
magic..

RTI Connext DDS Pro
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Admin
Console
Monitor Recording
Console
Shapes
Demo
Wireshark Excel
Add-in
Tools
Web
Integration
Service
Routing
Service
Recording
Service
Replay
Service
Persistence
Service
Database
Integration
Queuing
Service
Services
Code
Generator
DDS Ping DDS Spy Type
Convert
Record
Convert
RTI Package
Installer
Utilities
Databus
Security Safety Cert

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