Everyware Cloud M2M iPaaS - M2M Integration Platform as a Service Integrating the Device World (of Things) and the World of Enterprise IT with a M2M Application

Everyware Cloud M2M iPaaS - M2M Integration Platform as a Service

Integrating the Device World (of Things)

and the World of Enterprise IT with a

M2M Application Enablement Platform

Robert Andres

Internet / TCP/IP

Why a M2M Integration Platform ? Sometimes M2M Solutions look simple …

Business Application

Sensors, Actuators,Displays, …

ServiceGateway

Single or no specialapplication on gateway

A single application to communicate with

Only one type of Gateway HW & SW

Only one type of device / sensor

No connectivity options required

Internet / TCP/IP

Ethernet WiFi

3G / LTE Satellite

WiMAXOther

Why a M2M Integration Platform ? .. but for many Customers Solutions are more Complex

Business Application


Multi-ServiceGateway

• Multiple services on the gateway / edge node

• Different connectivity options • More than one kind of vertical

market value proposition• Customer specific business

logic

2G / 2.5G

xDSLCable

Why a M2M Integration Platform ? ... Geographically Dispersed …

Business Applications



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Why a M2M Integration Platform ? ... and with more than one Consumer of the Device Data

@Business Applications



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Why a M2M Integration Platform ? We need an “ESB for Machines” Approach

Business Applications


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Everyware CloudM2MIntegrationPlatform

M2M Integration Platform

• Everyware Cloud is about Device Data, about M2M: It has been built from groud-up to provide an infrastructure that is specialized in optimum device data comunication, collection, analysis and management.

• It is an Integration Platform: Everyware Cloud is designed to act as an intermediate system between the distributed devices and the applications making use of the data coming from these devices. Any communication certainly is two-way in nature allowing also applications to control and manage the devices / assets where required.

• Everyware Cloud is conceptually like an Operating System for the Internet of Things enabling the transfer of device data independent of any other language, platform or OS to and from Enterprise applications

What is Everyware Cloud?

M2M Integration Platform Everyware Cloud: The M2M Integration Platform

• Everyware Cloud is based on many of the same concepts found in enterprise integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solutions but uses because of its special design focus different, for the purpose optimal M2M technology and protocols.

• Everyware Cloud provides the functional elements for customers to perform the appropriate message transformation, message routing, protocol conversions, data normalization, service virtualization, tracking, accounting, administration, monitoring and management of the M2M (distributed device) solutions. This approach includes the platform and its provided services as well ass the attached assets and their connections).

• Device and protocol specific adapters allow simplified integration of intelligent devices and legacy M2M solutions / protocols. These adapters consist of functional elements (software building blocks) that can / have to be partly implemented / provided on the remote asset / device side.


• Decoupling sensors and applications: flexible M2M platform that offers a complete separation between devices and applications while allowing to build many-to-many relations at the business level to enable new services

• Optimum device connectivity: bandwidth optimized, open, data agnostic, message oriented transport protocol for efficient network usage

• Flexible data management: data in any format can be stored and accessed quickly in an elastic and secure schemaless database

• Long-term available data: data can be stored and queried at any time• Real-time data management and analytics: device data can be

received and statistically analyzed in real-time• Data accessing and querying: standard REST APIs for easy application

development as well as data & management application integration• Device management: management of the distributed M2M devices with

their software / services throughout their complete lifecycle

Everyware Cloud Values & Capabilities

M2M Integration Platform Everyware Cloud - “Integration Platform as a Service”

DevicesDevices

PaaSPaaS

SaaSSaaS

IaaSIaaS

System InfrastructureService Layer

Application InfrastructureService Layer

Application ServiceLayer


M2M Integration Platform Everyware Cloud – System Infrastructure Options

PaaS

SaaS

IaaS

System InfrastructureService Layer

Application InfrastructureService Layer

Application ServiceLayer


iPaaS

System Infrastructure(Servers, Storage, Networking, OS)

System Infrastructure Services(IaaS)

On-Premises 19” 1UAppliance

Public Cloud


Everyware Cloud is offered as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) to customers …. allowing a much simplified integration of distributed devices with business applications.

In the enterprise IT world Gartner has introduced the concept of iPaaS (integration Platform as a Service) as one specific category within the PaaS offerings, using the following definition:

An iPaaS offering provides users with a combination of cloud services — collectively called integration platform services — to develop, execute and manage integration flows.

Integration flows running on iPaaS can connect, in a many-to-many fashion, any combination of on-premises and off-premises applications, services, processes and data.

iPaaS Generic Gartner Definition & Everyware Cloud

Source: Gartner, Inc. | JAI13_111*

*Enterprise Application & Architecture Summit , Cloud Services Integration: How to Get

Greater Business Value From Your Cloud Investments, Massimo Pezzini, March 2013

M2M Integration Platform Integrating Distributed Devices with Enterprise IT

aPaaS

SaaS

Everyware Cloud


M2M Integration Platform The Gartner iPaaS Reference Architecture

Integration Flow

Collaboration, Integration Flow Marketplace, Self-Service

Monitoring, Management and Platform Administration

Services

Development and Life-cycle Management

PlatformServices

GovernancePlatformServices

IntegrationPlatformServices

Cloud Foundation Services



Integration Flow Integration Flow Integration Flow

iPaaS

Integrations of distributed devices and applications

UnderlayingInfrastructure



Integration flows running on iPaaS can connect, in a many-to-many fashion, any combination of on-premises and off-premises applications, services, processes and data.

Integration flows can be developed by the iPaaS client or by a service provider (e.g., an integration brokerage) via the iPaaS development and life cycle management platform services.

Through the iPaaS monitoring, management and administration platform services, users deploy and administer integration flows, monitor their execution and manage their behavior (e.g., can change priorities, QoS requirements or security policies).

An iPaaS also provides governance platform services (registry/repository, artifacts life cycle management, policy management and enforcement, as well as governance data collection and API management).

All these services are implemented on a core set of cloud foundation services providing support for multi-tenancy, elasticity, self-service support, tracking, metering and billing with assurance of tenant integrity, security and service levels.

The Gartner iPaaS Reference Architecture


M2M Integration Platform The Gartner iPaaS Reference Architecture

iPaaS

• Multitenancy• Elasticity• Global availability• Redundancy• Tracking, metering, billing• Other cloud attributes

• Integration flows modeling, development, configuration, testing, and deployment

• Integration flows life cycle management

• Metadata repository

• Activity monitoring• Administration & management• Logging & Tracking• Error resolution• Message warehousing

• Transport protocols and communication• Message / data transformation & routing• Data aggregation / data quality• Community management• Adapters• Flow management• Security

• Prepackaged• Custom developed

• Registry/repository• Service, applications, and

processeslife cycle management

• Policy management and enforcement

• KPI data collection• Governance federation

support• API management

Integration Flow



Services

Development and Life-cycle Management

PlatformServices





M2M Integration Platform as a Service

An iPaaS suite, is designed to provide users with an integrated integration and governance platform for enabling independently designed applications and services to work together.

The iPaaS offerings usually combine “custom-developed software and metadata implementing the "integration logic" needed to connect multiple applications by performing the appropriate message transformation, routing, protocol conversions, service virtualization, orchestrations, security federation, usage tracking, administration, monitoring and management, etc.”

Everyware Cloud is in that very sense an iPaaS specifically designed to provide “the glue” for IoT or M2M solutions between the distributed systems in the field and the enterprise application and management world. The distributed device “network” is one end of an integration flow, the enterprise application the other.

Everyware Cloud is based on many of the same concepts found in enterprise iPaaS solutions but uses because of its special design focus different, for the purpose optimal M2M technology and protocols.

The Everyware Cloud iPaaS


M2M Integration Platform The Everyware Cloud iPaaS / M2M Specific Features

iPaaS

• Multi-tenancy• Elasticity• Redundancy• Tracking, billing• Other cloud attributes

• Application lifecycle management

• Metadata repository

• Activity monitoring• Administration & management• Asset / device management• Asset logging and tracking• Configuration management

• M2M transport protocols and communication• M2M message / data transformation & routing• Pub/sub hierarchical namespace• Complex event processing & alerting• Data normalization• Data aggregation• Adapters• Security

• Prepackaged• Custom developed • Registry & repository

• Policy management & enforcement

• Governance support

Integration Flow



ServicesDevelopment and Life-cycle Management

PlatformServices



Based partly on: Gartner, Inc. | JAI13_111*



Gartner defines iPaaS as “a suite of cloud services enabling the development, execution and governance of integration flows connecting any combination of on-premises and cloud-based processes, services, applications and data within individual, or across multiple, organizations.”

“An iPaaS offering provides users with a combination of cloud services — collectively called integration platform services — to develop, execute and manage integration flows .”

An integration flow is, “software and metadata implementing the "integration logic" needed to connect multiple applications by performing the appropriate message transformation, routing, protocol conversions, service virtualization, orchestrations, security federation, usage tracking, administration, monitoring and management, etc.

Integration flows running on iPaaS can connect, in a many-to-many fashion, any combination of on-premises and off-premises applications, ………… ……... services, processes and data. ”

Introducing the Concept of Integration Flows


M2M Integration Platform Examples of Integration Flows

Flow Flow Flow

iPaaS

aPaaS

SaaS


An Everyware Cloud Device Data Integration flow is, software and metadata implementing the "integration logic" needed to connect multiple applications with distributed intelligent devices and multi-service gateways.

Everyware Cloud provides the functional elements for customers to perform “the appropriate message transformation, routing, protocol conversions, service virtualization, orchestrations, security federation, usage tracking, administration, monitoring and management, etc.”

Everyware Cloud is based on many of the same concepts found in enterprise Integration Platform solutions, but uses because of its special design focus different, for the purpose optimal M2M technology and protocols like MQTT.

Within the Everyware Cloud architectural model a combination of some of these functional elements (software & hardware building blocks) are used to build adapters (to perform device and protocol specific tasks) that are implemented x - provided also on the device side.

Introducing the Concept of Device Data Integration Flows

M2M Integration Platform Introducing the Concept of Integration Flows

Integration Flow

iPaaS

Devices

Device / ProtocolAdapter

Modbus

PLC

Devices

Application /APIAdapter @

M2M Integration Platform Everyware Cloud Integration Flows / Device End

Integration Flow

Devices

Device / ProtocolAdapter

Modbus

PLC

Devices

• Generic device / protocol adapters can be used / built to integrate a broad range of devices and sensors

• Device / protocol adapters can be created using modular software building blocks that allow to integrate even demanding (M2M, industrial, etc.) protocols and devices in the most efficient ways

• Examples for device / protocol specific software elements:– PCN bundle– Fieldbus bundles (Modbus, etc.)– Vertical Application Protocols – Customer specific bundles

M2M Integration Platform Everyware Cloud Integration Flows / Device End

Integration Flow

Application /APIAdapter @

• Generic application adapters like the provided REST API can be used / built to communicate to a broad range of enterprise and management applications

• Specific application adapters can be used or created that allow to integrate even more effectively and seamlessly with various applications

• Examples for application specific, readily available adapters are:– Email, SMS– Twitter– Thingworx, Solution Family, NEGENTIS– Salesforce (planned Q2/Q3 2013)

M2M Integration Platform Integration Flow Example Vending Machines

Flow Integration Flow Flow

iPaaS

Enterpriseapplications

Intelligent devices and Multi-ServiceGateways

M2M Integration Platform Integration Flow Example Industrial Applications


iPaaS



Meters

PLCsSignage

IndustrialMulti-

ServiceGateway

M2M Integration Platform Integration Flow Example Transportation / Train


iPaaS



Sensors

HumanMachineInterfaces Transportation


PassengerCounter

M2M Integration Platform Public Cloud & On-Premises Appliance Solutions


iPaaS



UnderlayingInfrastructure

On-Premises 19” 1UAppliance

Public Cloud

InfrastructureOption

Everyware Cloud Box

Everyware Cloud

Implementation M2M iPaaS Appliance M2M iPaaS Public Cloud

Hardware Core i7, industrial grade N/A

Size 19” / 1U N/A

Target Application On-premiseClosed Network

Public Cloud

Connected Devices Thousands Flexible scaling

Availability Yes Yes

M2M Integration Platform Everyware Cloud – System Infrastructure Options

Public Cloud


Everyware Cloud is offered as a M2M integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) to customers …. allowing a much simplified integration of distributed devices with business applications.

In the enterprise IT world Gartner has introduced the concept of iPaaS (integration Platform as a Service) as one specific category within the PaaS offerings.

Everyware Cloud is in that very sense a M2M Integration Platform, specifically designed to provide “the glue” for IoT or M2M solutions between the distributed systems in the field and the enterprise application and management world. The distributed device “network” is one end of an integration flow, the enterprise application the other.

Besides optimal Device data management it is the management of the

distributed M2M devices with their software / services throughout their complete lifecycle that is an important aspect of the platform’s functionality.

Summary iPaaS Definition & Everyware Cloud

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