SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - Oct 31, 2014) - Real-Time Innovations (RTI), the real-time Industrial Internet of Things communications platform company, today announced its participation in the 2014 Defense Daily Open Architecture Summit held Nov. 4, 2014 in Washington D.C. The annual conference focuses on government efforts to implement open architecture standards and policies across the Department of Defense and other agencies. Attendees will gain knowledge of how the government is currently implementing these open architecture systems and how obstacles are being overcome. Industry experts will discuss how open architecture standards are important, especially in a time of constrained budgets.

RTI CEO, Stan Schneider, will be speaking as part of the Commercial Open Architecture Practices Panel on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014 at 2:30 p.m. ET. Additional panel speakers include executives from Mercury Systems, General Motors and Lockheed Martin. The panel will discuss how the Pentagon and defense industry can learn from the commercial sector as they embrace greater open architecture solutions. Industry experts will review how the automotive industry brought major automakers together to create commonality and openness in navigation systems to make them more readily upgradable and how they resolved differences over property rights.

Additional details on the event can be found below.

Event Details

What:
Defense Daily's 2014 Open Architecture Summit

Where:
Grand Hyatt Washington, Washington D.C. 

When:
Tuesday, November 4, 2014 at 2:30-3:45 p.m. ET

Who:
Stan Schneider, CEO, RTI

For more information on this event, please visit: www.openarchitecturesummit.com

About RTI

RTI provides the communications platform for the real-time Industrial Internet of Things.

Our RTI Connext™ messaging software forms the core nervous system for smart, distributed applications. RTI Connext allows devices to intelligently share information and work together as one integrated system. RTI was named "The Most influential Industrial Internet of Things Company" in 2014 by Appinions and published in Forbes.

Our customers span the breadth of the Internet of Things, including medical, energy, mining, air traffic control, trading, automotive, unmanned systems, industrial SCADA, naval systems, air and missile defense, ground stations, and science. The total value of system designs that trust RTI for their fundamental architecture exceeds $1 trillion.

RTI is committed to open standards, open community source and open architecture. RTI provides the leading implementation of the Object Management Group (OMG) Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard.

RTI is the world's largest embedded middleware provider, privately held and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

RTI, Real-Time Innovations, RTI Data Distribution Service, Connext and 1RTI are registered trademarks or trademarks of Real-Time Innovations, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective companies.