TREAD Joined IREDES
TREAD Corporation , with headquarters and manufacturing facilities based in Roanoke, Virginia; and satellite offices in Australia, Chile and South Africa, is respected globally for being the innovative leader in providing bulk equipment trucks, storage bins, magazines, emulsion plants, aftermarket parts, technical assistance and support to the worldwide commercial explosives industry.
IREDES Milestone for year 2012
IREDES has planned several technical developments for the year 2012. Discussion will be held on-line on LinkedIn IREDES group. Face-to-face meetings will be held if necessary according to member's will. Schedule is set as follows but it is not fixed. May you have some interesting ideas for development, please contact the IREDES office to adjust the schedule!
Note that profile developments are not listed below. They will always be running! Make sure you check back this site for the most updated information!
| Topic | Goal | schedule |
|---|---|---|
| XML encoding / compression | Find easy and efficient way of XML data encoding or compression for narrow bandwidth data exchange. Since on-line profile development is a hot topic in IREDES now, XML may seem too verbose to be used as a standard for data intensive exchanges. We will evaluate different methodologies and find a way to solve this problem | an evaluation report will be provided before 30-04-2012 |
| XML encryption | IREDES is an open standard, but we do not want to expose proprietary information during data exchange. Especially when cooperative work is being done. This year, we will introduce the method for data encryption - for XML data. | 31-07-2012 |
| IREDES SDK | The IREDES standard has been around for some time now. Yet it has no handy tool for easy formation of the standard documents. IREDES sdk will help the users deploy the standard to their system with less effort. Goal of the sdk is to provide a handy software library for development of IREDES compliant software systems. | Alpha version should be ready at the end of the year |
Added topics:
- OPC UA integration: Provide standard routine for IREDES and OPC UA integration. Develop relevant standard profiles and provide integration supports. Online discussion starts in the beginning of May.
XML Compression Evaluation Results List Growing
IREDES is evaluating various alternatives to compress our XML for narrow bandwidth data exchange. When computation is not a problem but transmission is, compression is useful. Click here to see a list of test results.
Binary XML and Efficient XML Interchange
XML data is verbose. At IREDES, we are permanently searching for methods to compress/encode our data during transmission when human readability is not that important. Gzip is traditionally used for this purpose but there exists better solutions. Currently we are examine possibilities to reduce our data size. Two algorithms come into our scope: Binary XML compiled by the Wireless Application Protocol group, and Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) standard suggested by W3C. At the first glance, both are achieving good results. We will further test them and post the results here.
Please join the discussion by joining the IREDES group on LinkedIn. If you have any ideas, difficulties, suggestions, please contact us!