1. Events and
Topics for IoT
Phil Scanlon
Solace.

2. You might not know our name, but…

3. What are Events

4. “A key distinction of a digital
business is that it's always
sensing and always ready,
which demands grounding in
event processing.”
Source: Gartner
Business Events, Business Moments
and Event Thinking in Digital Business. 4
August 2017
Shift to Event-Driven Architectures and Thinking
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Lives, businesses are event-driven…
– Mouse click, a screen tap indicates user action
– Temperature sensor detects threshold exceeded
– A command and control call to stop a machine
– A Master Data Update Event, a plane taking off
– Even an API call…
Our lives, the universe, are event-driven…
So why is
computing
usually
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5. Gartner: Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2018:
Event-Driven Model. 8 March 2018
Shift to Events
is Accelerating
Event-driven microservices are the
optimal software design model to
delivery digital business agility.
By 2022, 70% of new
digital business solutions
will require event-sourced,
real-time situational awareness.

6. Don’t use Y2K
techniques to
deal with
2018 realities
How do you support the shift to “event-driven”?

7. Event Distribution is Complicated
PaaS
IoT
Public Cloud
Legacy Application Infrastructure
iPaaS
Runtimes
Yes, you can stitch it all together today…
But how do you
uniformly connect the
old world with the new?
How do you ensure
high availability, maximum security and
smart governance?
How do you make
your infrastructure
fast and easy to scale?
And how do you automate
for self-learning, dynamic
low-touch operation?

8. The Answer is an Event Mesh
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PaaS
IoT
Public Cloud
Legacy Application Infrastructure
iPaaS
Runtimes
• Uniform Connectivity
• Dynamic Routing
• Elastic Capacity
• High Performance
• High Availability
• Security & Governance

9. What is a Topic
Bus/SBE1234A/lta/posn/001.33951098/103.85626960/
Vehicle type/[busID]/owner/data type/lat/long/
• Every event is published with a topic
• The topic describes the event in human readable form
• It’s hierarchical – broad to granular
• Topics allow us to decouple publishers from subscribers
• Subscribers listen for events – specific or wildcard
• Wildcard on lat/long gives an area
*/*/lta/posn/001.33*/103.85*/> all vehicles near CBD
Bus/SBE1234A/lta/> all events related to SBE1234A
*/*/*/posn/ all vehicle locations

10. IoT - Topic example
Pub
Sub
REST
Bus/[busID]/lta/posn/lat/long/
Logger
*/>
REST
car/[carID]/priv/posn/lat/long/
MQTT
drone/[droneID]/hobby/posn/lat/long/
MQTTMQTT REST MQTTMQTT
taxi/[taxiID]/std/posn/lat/long/
REST
Regulator
AMQP
*/>
SMRT
JMS
*/*/*/>
*/*/lta/>
AI/ML
JMS
Car/>
drone/>
Public
Native
*/>
Comfort
JMS
taxi/c*/>

11. Demo 1 - Bus Geo-location
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12. What is a topic
Example : Smart Home
gas/X/(areaID)/(meterID)/(value)
gas/Y/(areaID)/(meterID)/(value)
Event
Bus
Power Company
A
Power Company
B
Gas Company
X
Gas Company
Y
Logger
power/A/>
power/B/>
gas/X/>
gas/Y/>
AI/ML
power/A/(areaID)/(meterID)/(value)
power/B/(areaID)/(meterID)/(value)
JMS
REST
REST
AMQP
JMS
AMQP
MQTT
REST
On-prem
Pub
Sub
power/>, gas/>
power/>

13. • Seamless data flow across
devices and applications
• End-to-end addressability
enables ingestion and
command & control
• Protocol support and
transformation
• Massive scale with built-in
filtering and burst handling
Event Distribution in the Internet of Things
AMQP
Applications in Cloud
and Datacenter
Sensors, Vehicles
and Control Systems
JMS
MQTT
REST
MQ
?
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Hybrid/Multi-Cloud
Event Routing
Any Protocol, Any Pattern
Legacy Integration Framework
Event Management
Security

14. Solace Digital Case Study: NETS Group
• The NETS Group enable digital payments for merchants,
consumers and banks across the entire payments value chain.
• 102,000 terminal’s accepting QR Codes
• Solace’s Event Broker allows NETS to reliably and securely
route the real-time information involved with large numbers of
transactions
“Without Solace we were
unable to rollout our
technology fast enough.
We can now onboard a
bank a month. Previously it
took 3 months”
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CIO NETS

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• Solace fans out National Airspace
System SWIM data feeds to airlines,
airports, FlightAware, etc.
• Traffic Flow/ Flight Plans STDDS
– Collect/publish data from 150+ airports, SFPDS ,
TBFM, TFDM
• Why Solace?
– Predictable, high performance
– High fanout for large number of
connected systems over WANs
– Fast fail over time to support
business continuity
– Easy to manage with more real-
time monitoring and response
– Built-in hardware compression
reduce WAN bandwidth
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16. Solace IoT Case Study: Core Transport Technologies
• Core TT provide logistics solutions to Airlines, Cargo carriers and US government agencies.
• Solace is the event backbone for CORE's worldwide IoT implementation
• Solace Event Brokers are deployed both in the Cloud and on Premise to manage all the logistic
events
• Solace effectively synchronizes and exchanges critical information in real-
time, updating users on the status of their deliveries as well as potential
logistical problems
“Solace gives us the ability to
dynamically manage and
deliver information in real time
which is critical to maintaining
contingency plans and
adapting as events unfold.
This enables quick, informed
shipping decisions, keeping
services efficient and
effective.”
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Ian Craig
Managing Director
Core Transport Technologies

17. Demo 2 - Dragonboat
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18. How it works
Player 1
Player app
• Listen for race events race/UID/*
• Publish row (click) race/UID/PID/row
Race application & display
• Listen to clicks race/UID/*/row
• Publish positions race/UID/stats
• Start / stop/notify race/UID/[start|stop|etc]
And then
• Analytics
• Fan out to cloud
• Fraud/cheating/etc
Race application & display
Player 2
Player
‘to infinity and beyond’

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