M2M Integration Platform as a Service iPaaS

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, …
Service
Gateway
Single or no special
application 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
WiMAX
Other
.. but for many Customers Solutions are more Complex
Business
Application
Sensors,
Actuators,
Displays, …
Multi-
Service
Gateway
• 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
xDSL
Cable

... Geographically Dispersed …
Business
Applications
Sensors,
Actuators,
Displays, …
Multi-
Service
Gateway
?

... and with more than one Consumer of the Device Data
@
Business
Applications
Sensors,
Actuators,
Displays, …
Multi-
Service
Gateway
?

We need an “ESB for Machines” Approach
Business
Applications
Sensors,
Actuators,
Displays, …
@
Multi-
Service
Gateway
Everyware Cloud
M2M
Integration
Platform

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?

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

Everyware Cloud - “Integration Platform as a Service”
Devices
PaaS
SaaS
IaaS
System
Infrastructure
Service
Layer
Application
Infrastructure
Service
Layer
Application
Service
Layer

Everyware Cloud – System Infrastructure Options
PaaS
SaaS
IaaS
System
Infrastructure
Service
Layer
Application
Infrastructure
Service
Layer
Application
Service
Layer
iPaaS
System Infrastructure
(Servers, Storage, Networking, OS)
System Infrastructure Services
(IaaS)
On-Premises 19” 1U
Appliance
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

Integrating Distributed Devices with Enterprise IT
aPaaS
SaaS
Everyware Cloud

The Gartner iPaaS Reference Architecture
Integration Flow
Collaboration, Integration Flow Marketplace, Self-Service
Monitoring,
Management
and Platform
Administration
Services
Development
and Life-cycle
Management
Platform
Services
Governance
Platform
Services
Integration
Platform
Services
Cloud Foundation Services
(IaaS)
Integration Flow Integration Flow Integration Flow
iPaaS
Integrations of
distributed devices
and applications
Underlaying
Infrastructure

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.

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
processes
life cycle management
• Policy management and
enforcement
• KPI data collection
• Governance federation
support
• API management
Integration Flow
Collaboration, Integration Flow
Marketplace, Self-Service
Monitoring,
Management
and Platform
Administration
Services
Development
and Life-cycle
Management
Platform
Services
Governance
Platform
Services
Integration
Platform
Services

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

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
Collaboration, Integration Flow
Marketplace, Self-Service
Monitoring,
Management
and Platform
Administration
Services
Development
and Life-cycle
Management
Platform
Services
Governance
Platform
Services
Based partly on: Gartner, Inc. | JAI13_111*
Integration
Platform
Services

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

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

Introducing the Concept of Integration Flows
Integration Flow
iPaaS
Devices
Device /
Protocol
Adapter
Modbus
PLC
Devices
Application /
API
Adapter @

Everyware Cloud Integration Flows / Device End
Integration Flow
Devices
Device /
Protocol
Adapter
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

Everyware Cloud Integration Flows / Device End
Integration Flow
Application /
API
Adapter @
• 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)

Integration Flow Example Vending Machines
Flow Integration Flow Flow
iPaaS
Enterprise
applications
Intelligent devices
and Multi-Service
Gateways

Integration Flow Example Industrial Applications
iPaaS
Enterprise
applications
Intelligent devices
and Multi-Service
Gateways
Meters
PLCs
Signage
Industrial
Multi-
Service
Gateway

Integration Flow Example Transportation / Train
iPaaS
Enterprise
applications
Intelligent devices
and Multi-Service
Gateways
Sensors
Human
Machine
Interfaces Transportation
Multi-
Service
Gateway
Passenger
Counter

Public Cloud & On-Premises Appliance Solutions
iPaaS
(IaaS)
Underlaying
Infrastructure
On-Premises 19” 1U
Appliance
Public Cloud

Infrastructure
Option
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-premise
Closed Network
Public Cloud
Connected Devices Thousands Flexible scaling
Availability Yes Yes
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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