Data on the Move - RTI Webinar Series 2011

Different types of data and connection architectures require different infrastructure configurations. RTI's messaging software with its configurable Quality of Service accommodates these unique Design Patterns and allows system architects to provide a customized infrastructure with an off-the-shelf standardized solution. The net result is a reduction in cost and risk for all phases (development, integration and deployment) of your project.

Developing heterogeneous distributed systems is a complex challenge. Individual subsystems are often developed by independent teams, third parties, and legacy systems. These complexities can be substantially reduced by leveraging the combined power of RTI Data Distribution Service (DDS) and National Instruments LabVIEW. LabVIEW and DDS together allow the development of advanced and unique system architectures to simplify system integration, data communication, network bandwidth management and redundancy.

UAS developers are challenged to adapt designs beyond originally conceived mission capabilities. Challenges range from supporting multi-UAS operational coordination and controlling swarms of unmanned aircraft to integrating and re-configuring for next generation UAS systems. Open standards and COTS technology represent a software architectural approach that simplifies the evolving issues that re-configurability, multi-UAS coordination, safety and security requirements pose for next generation system designs. We will also present several examples of UAS successfully deploying this architectural approach to illustrate its advantages in actual applications.

Looking for a technology that provides comprehensive and flexible control over data security—including integrity, confidentiality, authenticity, nonrepudiation, and access control—at both the transport and messaging level? RTI’s security model for Data Distribution Service (DDS), is an industry-standard publish-subscribe data bus targeting real-time performance requirements. This technology will deliver dramatically better performance than other product offerings with similar security capabilities. And because RTI standardizes the programming APIs as well as the protocol used by this technology, multi-vendor interoperability and portability will be enabled.

Large-scale distributed system applications are experiencing an explosion in the number of connected sensors, devices, systems and subsystems. Program managers, system architects and system engineers must understand and adopt better technologies, architectures and integration techniques to meet growing system integration complexity and performance requirements.

Leveraging Data Distribution Service (DDS), RTI addresses these challenges by allowing next generation network architectures—based on replicated data publish/subscribe. This paradigm eases integration of large heterogeneous systems while at the same time maintaining system scalability, throughput and latency. SCADA and DCS systems will be used as examples, but the discussion will also apply to other large-scale distributed system applications.

Deployment of sensors, smart devices and mobile computing is exploding. As a result, an enterprise's most valuable information no longer lives in a centralized data center or cloud: it is produced and consumed at the network edge. In this highly distributed environment, publish/subscribe messaging provides the ideal substrate for information dissemination. By decoupling data producers and consumers, it simplifies application development and systems integration.

RTI's pub/sub software is uniquely suited to edge-to-enterprise messaging. It delivers extremely high performance, supports highly autonomous and dynamic systems, does not require centralized servers or system administration, and efficiently communicates over unreliable and low-bandwidth networks.

Over the last few years there has been a subtle but important shift in the way government procurement is taking place. In an effort to reduce through-life maintenance and modification costs, government organizations are looking to specify the architecture used across a multitude of systems. By specifying an architecture based on open standards and a data-centric method of communication, interoperability across a range of systems, sub-systems and system-of-systems becomes more straight forward, while simultaneously reducing upgrade and maintenance costs.

Real-time connectivity is critical in the development of clinical systems including medical devices, monitoring systems and network infrastructure. From integrating internal monitoring systems, to delivering real-time analysis and correlation of patient data to reducing patient errors.application developers for medical devices and patient monitoring systems are faced with these new challenges. In addition, other design issues include scalability in the number of devices and the size of the data, data security, HIPAA compliance and integration with legacy devices and proprietary monitoring systems.

Join Supreet Oberoi, Vice President of Engineering at RTI, and Tracy Rausch, founder and CTO of DocBox, Inc., as they discuss the design opportunities in building the next generation of clinical systems (medical devices and monitoring systems) that scale to a distributed networked system with tens of thousands of sensors, terabytes of data with millisecond latency while correlating data streams with third-party systems. All while providing real-time analysis, privacy and security compliance so critical in the medical informatics industry.

About Tracy Rausch: Tracy Rausch is a Certified Clinical Engineer and has a Master's degree in engineering. Currently, Rausch is the founder and CTO of DocBox Inc., a medical device company addressing point of care device integration, workflow management, closed loop control and safety interlocks. These systems are designed to improve patient safety and the efficacy of patient care. She is also a technical advisor to the CIMIT (Center for the Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology) medical device plug and play program and a 2007 recipient of CIMITs Edward M. Kennedy Award for Health Care Innovation. Rausch is also the co-chair of the ICE-PAC working group, a joint effort between IHE, ASTM, and CIMIT's MDPnP program which is reviewing current medical device standards against clinical requirements derived from clinical scenarios. Her area of expertise is in how to improve clinical workflow utilizing technology and understanding and translating clinical requirements into engineering systems requirements.

About Supreet Oberoi: Supreet Oberoi brings extensive design and product engineering skills in developing Enterprise systems and software. Before joining RTI, Oberoi was responsible for the development of Agile Software's strategic product line, while also managing platinum accounts. Oberoi started his career at Microsoft Corporation in the Multimedia System groups. At Oracle Corporation, he held various technical and line-management positions over a seven-year period developing web-based Enterprise applications for the CRM and Server Technology divisions. Oberoi was also a founding member and director of Engineering for Trading Dynamics, which was acquired by Ariba for $740 million. He has patents in customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management and product lifecycle management (PLM).