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THE FUTURE OF DDS

The Future of DDS

DDS has proven to be an effective standard to reduce the complexity of designing and integrating large
scale mission- and business-critical distributed systems across a large variety of application domains, such as
Defense and Aerospace, Transportation, Telecoms, Industrial Automation, and Energy.
The rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) has given DDS even more allure. Few other standards—if any at all—
are so ubiquitously applicable to address the challenges of securely, efficiently, and transparently sharing
information at any scale and in very heterogeneous computing and communication environments.
As a result, in the near future we will see DDS playing an increasing role as the underlying fabric—in a sense
the nervous system—of IoT applications, especially in Industrial applications, such as Smart Grids, Smart
Transportation, Smart Cities and Smart Factories.
Additionally, upcoming standards such as the eXtremely Resource Constrained Environments (XRCE) DDS
will expand DDS’ applicability to very constrained targets, i.e. with less than 100KB of total RAM, connected
by constrained networks such as LoWPANS. XRCE DDS is due to provide the most efficient way for providing
connectivity to these constrained devices, such as smart sensors or smart lightbulbs, minimizing computation and communication overhead.
In summary, DDS is already a very successful standard powering an incredible number of systems. In the
near future we will see an acceleration in the adoption of DDS due to the rise of the IoT. Additionally,
upcoming standards such as XRCE-DDS will expand DDS’ applicability to “extremely small things”, thus
creating by far the most applicable standard for IoT end-to-end and setting the premises for a massive
adoption at a device level.

PrismTech has been involved with defining and evolving the DDS standard since its very
early days. This has been an amazing journey, yet only a few steps toward achieving the
full potential of the standard. The acceleration in adoption and its growing role as the
data-sharing standard for the IIoT have the potential for making DDS an incredible
success story.”
- Dr. Angelo Corsaro, Chief Technology Officer,
ADLINK Technology Inc., Chief Technology Officer, PrismTech

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