About the ViViVerse
The Music Example
You can build a music system in various ways: As a highly integrated device, split into local components or with use of additional remote music resources.
Each of these ways has its advantages and disadvantages:
- Building a boombox needs few architectural considerations and can be done cheaply, but allows only minimal flexibility.
- The HiFi system has great flexibility, but you need to think about standardised interfaces. And each box needs its own housing and power supply.
- The network components allow access to unlimited resources but add even more interfaces and costs. And the connections may or may not work.
Automation and Robotics with the ViViVerse
The ViViVerse provides an advanced mechanism for splitting your automation or robotics application into components and letting them interact through well defined interfaces in a flexible and secure way. By using this mechanism, you can:
- Exchange components with the same interface.
- Distribute your applications transparently accross any number of computing nodes, be it locally or globally.
- Let components of different applications communicate with each other.
All this can be done without changing a single line of program code, just by reconfiguring the computing nodes which run the ViViVerse.
Developing with the ViViVerse
The ViViVerse consists of the basic framework which facilitates and greatly speeds up the creation of components like sensors, actuators, algorithms and HMIs.
The framework provides essential services like configuration and component module handling or communication between distributed components.
For specific fields you can use existing packages like e.g. for advanced GPS access, remote support or fleet management, which are available on this web site.
Making Business with the ViViVerse
You can create component packages based on the ViViVerse and either distribute them directly or (in the future) via this web site to other users of the platform.