Open standards, open platform: HighByte Intelligence Hub version 1.2 now available
Aron Semle
is the Chief Technology Officer of HighByte, focused on guiding the company’s product strategy through research and development and technical evangelism. Aron has served in a variety of roles in his 15-year career in industrial technology, including software engineer, product manager, R&D lead, and director of solutions management, building innovative software solutions for the manufacturing operations market. Aron received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Maine.
The future of Industry 4.0 is open: open standards, open platforms, and open thinking. In today’s ecosystem, realizing the full potential of Industry 4.0 requires a mesh of products working together to fulfill each layer of the technology stack. Open standards and platforms simplify these integrations and speed up the time-to-value for Industry 4.0 solutions.
That is why I am excited to announce the release of HighByte Intelligence Hub version 1.2, enabling our customers to deploy their Industry 4.0 solutions even faster by leveraging additional open standards and platforms.
That is why I am excited to announce the release of HighByte Intelligence Hub version 1.2, enabling our customers to deploy their Industry 4.0 solutions even faster by leveraging additional open standards and platforms.
Open Standards
This release adds Sparkplug support over MQTT. Sparkplug is an open standard built on top of MQTT that defines the message format for Sparkplug-enabled applications. Many industrial sensors and systems have adopted the Sparkplug specification with MQTT as a means of integrating systems due to Sparkplug's prescriptive topic namespace, payload definition, and state management. Using Sparkplug, customers can instantly consume and publish data models to and from other Sparkplug-enabled systems.
Open Platform
This release also supports OpenJDK v14, a free and open-source implementation of Java, extending the reach of HighByte Intelligence Hub to any OpenJDK-enabled platform. OpenJDK support for the underlying JAVA virtual machine ensures the longevity of the solution and reduces the cost of ownership of the solution for our customers.
Key Features
HighByte Intelligence Hub version 1.2 offers the following new features:
- Enhanced security. Securely connect and configure HighByte Intelligence Hub using HTTPS.
- More flexible output formats. JSON output can now be further customized, allowing users to flatten or expand the hierarchy. Flexible presentation of information models is essential when supporting multiple use cases and target applications. While MQTT is becoming the de facto protocol for IoT data and many applications support it, each application has nuances in how they expect JSON to be structured. Applications and data storage engines also have unique needs regarding update frequency and how much information is included in the update. Flexible presentation of information models addresses these interoperability challenges.
- Publish only data that changes. Enable a flow to only publish model data that has changed, reducing the amount of data sent to applications.
- Easily organize models and instances. Models and model instances can now be organized into categories, making it easier to manage hundreds or thousands of models across your enterprise. The organization of models and instances is critical as companies scale the size of their deployments.
Additional Resources
We hope you are as excited as we are to expand the use of HighByte Intelligence Hub to more open platforms and standards with version 1.2. To learn more, check out these additional resources:
- Watch this 2-minute video from HighByte CEO Tony Paine for a demonstration of new features in version 1.2.
- View this 6.5-minute video to learn how to create a Sparkplug connection.
- Read the release notes for new features and fixes.
- Request a free trial.
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