RTI: The Real-Time Middleware...

RTI: The Real-Time Middleware Company

1© 2008 Real-Time Innovations, Inc.

● RTI Data Distribution Service is the leadinghigh performance real-time middleware in:

– Defense & Aerospace– Industrial Automation – Simulation & Telecomm

● RTI plays leading role inRT-middleware standards

– OMG, OpenGroup, others…

● Founded in 1991. Spin-off from the Stanford University. Based in Silicon Valley, with global presence. Profitable and growing 30% a year.

● Partner Focused: Oracle, Coral8, Motorola, Wind River, LynuxWorks, Green Hills, others…

About Real-Time Innovations (RTI)

2 © 2008 Real-Time Innovations, Inc.

Markets and Customers● Aerospace & Defense

– USN, Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop (Navy OA)– TCG, Lincoln Labs, General Dynamics (C4ISR)– SAIC (Ground vehicle control)– Raytheon (Ship Infrastructure and Controls)– Qinetiq (Naval Systems)– EU Air Traffic Management

● Modeling & Simulation– USA, CAE, NADS, Boeing (Simulators)– Nextel (Simulation and Information Systems)– Force Technology (Ship Simulations)

● Industrial Automation– Schilling, Schneider (Robotics, Factory automation)– Applied Materials, Nikon (Semiconductor equipment)– Ferag (Post printing assembling and binding)– Max Planck (Power research)

● Telecomm/Datacomm– Accom (Digital video control)– Tekelec (Network test equipment)– IPC, Infinera (Telecomm equipment)6 © 2008 Real-Time Innovations, Inc.

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Worldwide adoption

● Italy● France● Germany● Israel● Sweden● Denmark● Netherlands● Brazil

● US● Korea● Singapore● Taiwan● Australia● India● UK● Spain● Switzerland

Navy Open Architecture

The US Navy is promoting and pursuing an Open Architecture that promotes interaction and portability between designers, suppliers, and end-users. With Open Architecture common standards and products are employed throughout ship systems (frameworks, middleware, operating systems, etc) reducing total cost of ownership, easing systems change and upgrades, and reducing compatibility and interoperability problems.

RTI Middleware is enabling OA throughout the US Navy.

Ship Self Defense System (SSDS)9 © 2008 Real-Time Innovations, Inc.

US Navy Programs

● DDG 1000 – previously DD(X)● LCS – Littoral Combat Ship● SSDS – Ship Self Defense System● SPY OA – Aegis System● LPD 17● Sea Slice ● E2-C Hawkeye● …



The US Navy’s LPD-17’s sophisticated Ship-Wide Area Network (SWAN) includes:

– shipboard, machinery, damage and steering controls

– Mission control, navigation and communication systems

– Many other components

The challenge is the complexity of coordinating such a large number of disparate systems

RTI forms the backbone for the entire SWAN to synchronize & manage this wide-ranging set of control systems

Defense

US Navy LPD-17 Ship-Wide Area Network


Next-generation of the U.S. Navy Aegis Weapon System

Challenge to share time-critical data across highly distributed system including radar, weapons, displays and controls

Need to maximize future scalability and flexibility

RTI provides real-time communication infrastructure. Standards-based & extensible for future system enhancements

Lockheed Martin US Navy Aegis Open Architecture Weapon System

Defense


Distributed combat and control system for U.S. Navy ship

Concerned with extensibility of system, compatibility between vendors, easy upgrades

OMG DDS is the specified standards-based middleware in US Navy Open Architecture

RTI selected on performance, extensions and advanced services

Defense

Littoral Combat System (LCS)


NavDDS Shipboard Navigation System

Finance

Sperry Marine NavDDS seamlessly interfaces electronic navigation sensors with shipboard systems

Challenge to scale from single sensors to large-scale, multiple-sensor system distributing time-critical data

DDS does not require specific design knowledge of remote devices, enabling easy integration of new data sources

DDS auto-discovery means can add new systems to architecture without reconfiguring existing subsystems

Transportation

Naval Systems around the World

● South Korea● United Kingdom● Japan● India● …



South Korea military upgrading frigate ship fleet

Need automated computer functions (target detection, tracking, weapon control, etc.) for efficient combat execution with minimal personnel

With prime contractor Samsung Thales, RTI provides solution for real-time data management across system

FFX-1 Naval Combat System

Defense

AWACS Radar System Upgrade

RTI Middleware is used throughout the upgraded track management and control system in AWACS enabling modular and open architecture.


DDS B1-B Tactical Systems Upgrade

DDS is being used to seamlessly integrate legacy flight control systems with a new open architecture tactical communication and control system.



Insitu Unmanned Air Vehicle

“…we have seen a 30% increase in productivity based on not having to handle data communication issues.”

-- Gary Viviani, VP of Engineering

Insitu is a recognized leader in the exploding UAV space

The next generation of UAV’s including the Scan Eagle and newer platforms

Challenge is to have a successful UAV mission which requires impressive autonomy and reliable ground control

RTI enables information flow that is much more orchestrated & flexible, allowing seamless switch control between multiple ground stations while connecting reliably over unreliable links

Unmanned Vehicles


Advanced Cockpit Ground Control Station

Defense

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems developed advanced cockpit ground control stations (GCSs) for unmanned aircraft systems

Required real-time data distribution for acquisition, analysis, and response of remote controlled aircraft

RTI selected for proven software & services. Application built in under 14 months, significantly less time than with alternative software or building their own


Future Combat Systems (FCS)

● Has specified DDS as part of SoSCOE● Large complex real-time data-distribution● Wireless with intermittent connectivity● Highly heterogeneous● Highly dynamic

DDS Adoption – Modeling & Simulation

US National Advanced Driving Simulator

Nextel Flight Simulator Development Force Technologies – Ship Simulations

CAE Flight Simulators


University of Iowa Driving Simulation Center and the US Army connected several high-fidelity simulators to test and evaluate passenger vehicles. They chose publish-subscribe over CORBA, DCOM and HLA, because it was easier to use and also was the most effective at controlling update rates, message ordering, data criticalities, and message latencies.

Example: Driving Simulation in Iowa


Flight Simulator Takes Off withRTI Data Distribution Service

For communications between full flight simulator subsystems, CAE, one of the world's leading providers of simulation and training, used RTI Data Distribution Service (formerly NDDS) over high-bandwidth IEEE-1394 on its Sim XXI product line. "In the past we probably would have developed an expensive, proprietary system for data communications. By using RTI Data Distribution Service (formerly NDDS) were able to deliver a proven, reliable and cost effective solution to our customers.“

--Peter Jarvis, Chief Designer, CAE Civil Simulation & Training Division



Force Technologies Ship Simulations

FORCE trains ship captains by using accurate simulations of actual locales worldwide

Performance - many components need to come together and share data in real-time

Scalability - Want to integrate systems more rapidly

RTI delivered on the performance and scalability requirements. RTI also helped design the application

Simulation


Train Communications

US railways embarked on an effort to standardize communications –10,000 trains, 100,000 communications stations

Required combined wireless, wired, real-time and enterprise elements

RTI chosen because of high performance and scalability

RTI helped develop proposal, educated on the DDS standard and created performance tests

Transportation


Wi-tronix: High-Value Mobile Asset Tracking

Transportation

System used to wirelessly monitor high-value mobile assets such as locomotives, industrial equipment and marine vessels

Biggest challenge was wireless bandwidth issues

RTI addressed critical issues such as tuneability and discovery process over wireless network

Company brought DDS knowledge from General Motors, chose Pub-Sub model, then chose RTI as vendor

Transportation


Air Traffic Management

Finance

Air traffic service needed to control flow of traffic through busy metropolitan air space

Reliability is critical − hardware or software failures mean flight delays and substantial costs

RTI’s high performance permits the fast addition, updating and removal of system nodes without disrupting the data flow

RTI engaged to integrate, extend and design to the customer’s specific needs

Transportation

Highway Traffic Monitoring in Tokyo

The City of Tokyo needed a Metropolitan Highway Line traffic monitoring and information system. They developed a system that consisted of a central information-control center and hundreds of information kiosks scattered along the highway system. A data-distribution communications system was needed to deliver constant updates to the kiosks and to gather traffic condition data in the control center. RTI Data Distribution Service is used to help them deliver the system on time and on spec.


DDS Adoption – Many Others

Real-Time Traffic Systems Cable Television Control and Distribution

Industrial Automation - SchneiderTele/Data Communications andCall Centers30 © 2008 Real-Time Innovations, Inc.


Modern factories require the exchange of up-to-the-minute data on manufacturing processes, even with resource-constrained devices

Challenge to incorporate devices with limited memory or processing power

RTI with Schneider created a compact real-time publish-subscribe service – resides & executes in under 100 kb!

Industrial Automation

Schneider Programmable Logic Controllers


Varian MRI and NMR Products

“RTI delivered great functionality at a low cost. Using RTI middleware saved us a lot of money, time, and effort compared to our previous in-house developed solution.”

Varian provides leading edge tools and solutions for diverse, high growth applications in the life science industry

Needed new software architecture to seamlessly handle its expanding product line of magnetic instruments

RTI provided the flexible and powerful QoS needed. Using RTI greatly simplified system integration & connection

Varian is today shipping RTI middleware in entire NMR instruments product line.

Medical

Digital Television Video-on-Demand

Harmonic's digital video transmission equipment enables video-on-demand and other advanced digital services worldwide.

Harmonic needed a new device and network management service that went well beyond what SNMP could provide.

RTI Middleware’s rich, publish-subscribe communications gave them the device management capabilities that their customers demanded.


Products & Services from RTI

OS

Data Storage &Management

Real-time information networking infrastructure connects multiple sources of event-driven data in real-time and seamlessly ties complex networks of independent devices into a logical whole

Integrated, high performance, standards-based, off-the-shelf distributed data management and storage solutions

Any real-time operating systems - Linux, Integrity, Solaris, Windows, VxWorks, or custom platform

ConsultingServices

Data Distribution

Team of experts customize solutions for your performance critical application


RTI Data Distribution Service

RTI Data Distribution Service (formerly NDDS) is networking middleware that implements a real-time publish-subscribe communications model and allows distributed processes to share data without concern for the actual physical location or architecture of their peers.

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RTI Services – Delivering Your Success

Experienced engineers complement your team's skills & resources

Expert Design and Architecture, Custom Products, Industry Leading Training

Mitigate project risk

Utilize experts that have done it before to reduces your risk

Increase productivity

Save time and money with customized training solutions that reduce ramp-up time

Deliver quality on a shorter schedule

Add experience that results in better designs and fewer defects


RTI Services

● Turnkey Middleware – built to customer specs

● Architecture Study – optimize your designs

● Engineering Services – application extensions, ports, customized modules

● Support – ongoing, world-class support

● Training – onsite, workshops, custom

The RTI Advantage

A Pervasive Data Vision

Industry Success with Field Proven Products

A Team of Experts Ready to Help

Leadership in Standards


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