Hannover, March 2013
eProsima at CeBIT -the world’s leading high-tech event- presenting KIARA, a new high performance and secure middleware for distributed systems. The presentation showed how KIARA new features can help to the smart factory concept, also called “industry 4.0”.
eProsima will be located in German Federal Ministry of Education and Research Booth (Hall 9, Stand E50) with its partners DKFI (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence) and CISPA (German Center for IT Security, Privacy, and Accountability) in the KIARA project.
Index
- KIARA – A new high performance and secure middleware.
- Industry 4.0 – Smart Factory
- KIARA for Industry 4.0
- The CeBIT: The world’s leading high-tech event.
The KIARA Cebit Team (eProsima, DKFI, CISPA)
KIARA – A new high performance and secure middleware
KIARA is a new middleware for the FI-WARE project (http://www.fi-ware.eu/ ). FI-WARE will deliver a novel service infrastructure to develop Future Internet Applications in multiple sectors. KIARA is based in eProsima RPC and the OMG DDS standard.
KIARA is a lot faster than current technologies such Web Services or JMS, and the security has been considered from the very beginning, guarantying its suitability for high performance exigent distributed systems.
Our partners in this project are the Zurich University for Applied Sciences, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, and the German Center for IT Security, Privacy, and Accountability.
Industry 4.0 – Smart Factory
The industry revolution started in the second half of the XVIII century, going from hand production methods to machines. This was the first revolution.
We can consider as the second revolution the introduction of mass production through assembly lines around first half of XX century, with Henry Ford Cars as the most cited example.
The third one has been the introduction of IT an automation technologies, in the second half of XX century.
Now we assist to the forth revolution in which not only the production chain, but also the processed products, are smart. The production chain components and the products can communicate each other in the different stages of the production: The system is de-centralized and the incomplete products can inform about how they should be processed. This will lead to more flexible production chains, allowing personalization of the features of each unit.
Cebit Smart Factory Demo (DKFI)
KIARA for Industry 4.0
The basis for KIARA, DDS and eProsima RPC, have been used in many distributed systems in a lot of different scenarios, including embedded systems. The performance and reliability of these products have been tested extensively in very exigent domains, such as defense, aerospace, energy, financial, unmanned vehicles, simulation, transportation, control systems, and a long etc.
KIARA new features include:
- New Data Types
- Direct Use of Application native types
- New formats of marshalling (SOAP, RestFul)
- Web Services compatibility
- Protocol negotiation
- Extended transport support
- High performance dispatching agent (RPC)
- Increased Security.
The highlighted features (protocol negotiation, extended transport support and increased security) make KIARA a perfect fit for modern industrial systems, the so called industry 4.0 and smart factories.
In this new generation of factories the different components of the production chain including themselves are not isolated anymore and different types of middleware and data links can coexist. In this scenario security in more necessary than ever: An unauthorized access to the smart factory network could hack the entire system and lead to catastrophic results.
Extended transport support and protocol negotiation are used when the smart factory contains heterogeneous pieces communicating through different protocols and data links, from legacy FPGAs to Enterprise Systems.
The CeBIT: The world’s leading high-tech event.
CeBIT is the world's largest and most international computer expo. The trade fair is held each year on the Hanover fairground (Germany), the world's largest fairground, and is considered a barometer of the state of the art in Information Technology.
The 2013 CeBIT numbers show an impressive success: 285.000 visitors and more than 4000 participating IT companies. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, and the German Federal Minister of Economics and Technology Philipp Rösler were present at the presentation ceremony.
CeBIT is a German language acronym for Centrum für Büroautomation, Informationstechnologie und Telekommunikation», which would literally translate as "Center for Office Automation, Information Technology and Telecommunication".
