Status @ EclipseCon 2020 Ludwigsburg
19.10.2020
Digital Twins
- digital representation of real physical devices
- act as broker for communicating with assets
- applicable for both industrial and consumer-centric IoT scenarios
Ditto in context
Ditto as
Digital Twin
"middleware"
Stats
| 2018 (oct) | 2019 (oct) | 2020 (oct) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Github stars | 65 | 117 | 204 |
| Docker image pulls | ~ 1.200 | ~ 3.200 | ~ 10.000 |
| Active committers | 8 | 9 | 8 |
| Adopters | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| Contributors | - | ~ 3 | ~ 8 (3 ext) |
+ bigger contributions by our community
Achievements
- 1.0.0 (12/2019): Graduation release; Ditto Java + JS client; invoking HTTP web hooks; performance improvements
- 1.1.0 (04/2020): MQTT 5; message enrichment; Java 11 runtime; policies+search in Ditto Protocol
- 1.2.0 (08/2020): QoS 1 ("at least once") message processing; "_metadata" for twins
- 1.3.0 (09/2020): Message mapping enhancements; bugfixes
Achievements
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Eclipse IoT Packages:
- added Helm chart with support of community
- setup auto connection of Ditto to Hono in c2e package
- Initial contribution of a Ditto Golang client
LoRaWAN Virtual Conference: workshop + YouTube recording
Obstacles
- still rather moderate adoption rate
Roadmap
- 1.4.0
(12/2020):
- enhance twin by "desired" properties
- QoS 1 / acknowledgement improvements
- merge updates (PATCH) on twins
- outlook:
- topics around "desired" state handling
- conditional modification of twins
- consuming messages from Apache Kafka