Predix Mobility an Offline First approachto building Industrial Internet Applications( and How GE Integrated Couchbase Mobile in less than 90 days)

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GE’s DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONIncreased OpportunitiesSoftware-Defined everything;Data is a revenue Generator

New Business Models

Speed of change requiresMonth to day, scalability Cloud-based

PlatformBuilding on currentIT investments and assets Convergenc

e of IT & OT

GE Digital Wind FarmGE Rail Connect 350

Predix Industrial InternetOperating System

GE Digital

Predix Mobility

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“An app development framework that simplifies the building of mission critical high performance, always-available multi-platform mobile applications that function even when the network is not available.”

Predix Mobility

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An Offline First approach to building Industrial Internet Applications

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Predix Mobilityworks where connectivity is an issue

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Offline First• We start with Mobile First• We accept connectivity is an issue• Enterprise apps need to sync with existing

systems• Data on the device needs to be secured.

Offline login is required.• Prepare to work offline• UX/Interaction design needs to design in the

user interface to support offline capabilities

13*“Predix is a trademark of General Electric Company”

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DIY: Offline Support

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Context

Queue

Rabbit MQ

Integration

DomainData

Offline

WebStom

pDataStore

Predix Mobility Client

• One day to decide to make the switch

• POC in 5 days • Migrated to Couchbase Mobile 90

days*

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An example that demonstrates how GE is transforming itself and that it is committed to moving FAST.*

Switch to Couchbase Mobile

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Context

Couchbase-Lite CouchbaseServer

Integration

DomainData

CouchbaseMobile Sync

Predix Mobility Client

Offline Support built on Couchbase Mobile

Offline First

• NoSQL JSON Document Store on device

• SYNC Gateway = Robust & Stable• Flexible Integration layer using Cloud

Connectivity Patterns• Team can focus on core platform

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Mindshift required

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From• Request/Response• Relational • Strong Consistency

To • Distribute/Replicate • NoSQL• Eventual Consistency

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Where is the data located?• Make it simpler to understand• Separate Reads from Writes• CQRS pattern

Integration Layer

Read Data from Application Domain

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SYNCProcezssor

SYNCGateway

ApplicationDomain

“Source of Truth”

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Router

CMDProcessor

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Write Data to Application Domain

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SYNCGateway

ApplicationDomain

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DATA

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Offline Support Is hard to do it yourself!

Key Take Away

Contact Information

Michael Hart Senior Engineering ManagerPredix MobilityGE Digitalmichael.hart1@ge.com

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