Leadership in Next-Gen System Development
Real-Time Innovations (RTI) – The Software Framework Company for Physical AI Systems
With a mission to run a smarter world
Privately-held, RTI has the largest engineering team in the world dedicated to the Data Distribution Service (DDS™) standard, with professional services and global support to help drive project success. This focus provides RTI customers with a communication framework that allows them to manage risk, while increasing the scalability, modularity and reusability of their solutions with the highest levels of safety and cybersecurity.
RTI Connext software provides the data architecture for over 2,000 designs in Aerospace and Defense, MedTech, Automotive, and Robotics – running in more than $1T of total deployed systems worldwide. Only RTI combines decades of technical expertise with industry-leading software and tools to develop smarter systems, faster.
Customer Success
- Expert assistance for architecture guidance, customized support, proof of concepts, and more
- Tailored services that fit each phase of the project life cycle
- On-demand virtual learning platform
- Connext-trained, AI-powered chatbot for self-service support
- Hundreds of successful projects delivered annually
Technology
- 20+ years of industry leadership in real-time software solutions
- Running in more than $1T of total deployed systems worldwide
- AI-enabled software development that accelerates development, streamlines workflows, and enhances system reliability like never before
- World-class architecture and design experience offering products tailored specifically to the requirements of safety- and mission-critical systems
- Deepest portfolio of DDS-based tools for productivity, system integrity, and more
- Extensive Partner Ecosystem to help reduce time to deployment
- Original authors of the DDS standard and co-authors of subsequent specifications
Research
- Largest engineering team in the world that works exclusively on DDS-based software
- 5-10 active government-funded projects totaling approximately $6 million at any given time (spanning DAF, MDA, Army, Navy, DOE, Space and DARPA)
- A world-class reputation for reliability, rated in the top 1% of all companies (<500 people) to transition government-funded research
Aerospace & Defense
Software enabling the world's most mission-critical systems:
- Trusted by 45 of the top 50 defense contractors
- Deployed in 2,000+ platforms and 500+ programs of record
- Powering autonomy in 300+ vehicle designs across domains
- Embedded across Navy surface and subsurface fleets
- TRL 9-proven, battle-tested, and trusted in critical missions
Automotive
- Over 1 Million vehicles are on the road with Connext Drive
- Over 50% of the top 10 global EV entrants use Connext Drive
- Trusted by 25 OEMs
- "2024 Software Solution of the Year" by Embedded World Awards
- First DDS Vendor to meet all major automotive safety-certifications: Safety- certified to ISO 26262 ASIL D, ISO 21434 CAL-4 and ASPICE CL1
- Direct integrations within AUTOSAR Classic and AUTOSAR Adaptive; interoperable with ROS 2
- Active in key automotive consortia including AUTOSAR, AVCC, COVESA and SOAFEE
Healthcare
- 15+ surgical robotics projects in production
- 6 of the top 10 medical device companies use Connext
- Winner of 2024 ''Best Overall Connected Healthcare Solution'' award by MedTech Breakthrough
Customer, Partner & Analyst Experiences
RTI's Connext product suite supports agile, modular development while meeting autonomous systems’ demanding technical requirements, such as high data volumes, low latency, high resilience, reliability, and security. RTI can win customer confidence because of the successful deployment of its solution in diverse autonomous systems, such as passenger vehicles; EV startups; flying taxi services; autonomous ships; underwater robots; and land, sea, and air defense systems.
Sankara Narayanan
Industry Principal, Frost & Sullivan
With RTI Connext and NVIDIA Holoscan, medical technology developers can accelerate their software-defined product visions by leveraging infrastructure purposely-built for healthcare applications.
David Niewolny
Director of Business Development for Healthcare and Medical, NVIDIA
XPENG required a communication framework that supports a unified architecture across all of our designs — one that could manage the intense data requirements across a diverse range of XPENG models, from high-end to entry-level vehicles. RTI Connext Drive stood out as a flexible, highly-reliable and production-proven middleware. In addition, RTI’s impressive leadership within the DDS standard domain and its decades of experience with complex systems will help XPENG accelerate design and reduce risk as we develop our future vehicles.
Yu Peng
Vice President at XPENG
A joint-replacement surgery is incredibly invasive, stressful and is still a largely manual process today, with 100,000 knee replacements failing each year. We feel strongly that our total knee replacement system, with RTI’s underlying technology, will help to dramatically reduce this number.
Kamram Shamaei
CTO, Monogram Orthopaedics
The consulting team at RTI did in two weeks what takes most engineers months to complete. They managed to understand the system, write software for the system and integrate the software quickly and efficiently. They were determined to solve our problem within our timelines and make the software configurable so our team could pick up where they left off.
David J. Cannon
VP Research and Development, Seicor International Corporation
We specialize in providing vehicle-agnostic driverless software for urban environments. Our target applications include autonomous transportation around hotels, theme parks, commercial offices, retirement communities and more. We selected RTI’s connectivity software because it provides the high performance we require, while giving us the flexibility we need to customize our technology per application. With RTI’s technical expertise, 15 years of proven industry experience and market-leading technology, we’re able to deliver safe, autonomous solutions across the Asia-Pacific region.
Derrick Loh
CEO, Moovita
RTI Connext enables advanced controls and visualization in the surgical field, enriching the surgeon’s experience as well as patient care. We will continue to push boundaries through leading edge innovation in surgical robotics while maintaining unwavering commitment to safety and security standards.
Chauncey Graetzel
VP of R&D, Levita Magnetics
RTI's Connext product suite supports agile, modular development while meeting autonomous systems’ demanding technical requirements, such as high data volumes, low latency, high resilience, reliability, and security. RTI can win customer confidence because of the successful deployment of its solution in diverse autonomous systems, such as passenger vehicles; EV startups; flying taxi services; autonomous ships; underwater robots; and land, sea, and air defense systems.
Sankara Narayanan
Industry Principal, Frost & Sullivan
With RTI Connext and NVIDIA Holoscan, medical technology developers can accelerate their software-defined product visions by leveraging infrastructure purposely-built for healthcare applications.
David Niewolny
Director of Business Development for Healthcare and Medical, NVIDIA
XPENG required a communication framework that supports a unified architecture across all of our designs — one that could manage the intense data requirements across a diverse range of XPENG models, from high-end to entry-level vehicles. RTI Connext Drive stood out as a flexible, highly-reliable and production-proven middleware. In addition, RTI’s impressive leadership within the DDS standard domain and its decades of experience with complex systems will help XPENG accelerate design and reduce risk as we develop our future vehicles.
Yu Peng
Vice President at XPENG
A joint-replacement surgery is incredibly invasive, stressful and is still a largely manual process today, with 100,000 knee replacements failing each year. We feel strongly that our total knee replacement system, with RTI’s underlying technology, will help to dramatically reduce this number.
Kamram Shamaei
CTO, Monogram Orthopaedics
The consulting team at RTI did in two weeks what takes most engineers months to complete. They managed to understand the system, write software for the system and integrate the software quickly and efficiently. They were determined to solve our problem within our timelines and make the software configurable so our team could pick up where they left off.
David J. Cannon
VP Research and Development, Seicor International Corporation
We specialize in providing vehicle-agnostic driverless software for urban environments. Our target applications include autonomous transportation around hotels, theme parks, commercial offices, retirement communities and more. We selected RTI’s connectivity software because it provides the high performance we require, while giving us the flexibility we need to customize our technology per application. With RTI’s technical expertise, 15 years of proven industry experience and market-leading technology, we’re able to deliver safe, autonomous solutions across the Asia-Pacific region.
Derrick Loh
CEO, Moovita
RTI Connext enables advanced controls and visualization in the surgical field, enriching the surgeon’s experience as well as patient care. We will continue to push boundaries through leading edge innovation in surgical robotics while maintaining unwavering commitment to safety and security standards.
Chauncey Graetzel
VP of R&D, Levita Magnetics
RTI's Connext product suite supports agile, modular development while meeting autonomous systems’ demanding technical requirements, such as high data volumes, low latency, high resilience, reliability, and security. RTI can win customer confidence because of the successful deployment of its solution in diverse autonomous systems, such as passenger vehicles; EV startups; flying taxi services; autonomous ships; underwater robots; and land, sea, and air defense systems.
Sankara Narayanan
Industry Principal, Frost & Sullivan
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RTI’s History Told in Milestones
1991
- RTI is founded by robotics researchers from Stanford University.
- RTI releases the first product, ScopeTools, a debugging and visualization tool for distributed real-time systems.
1995
- RTI becomes a thriving consulting business with a focus on Wind River Systems VxWorks.
- ScopeTools achieves worldwide adoption through Wind River sales force.
- RTI enters middleware market with NDDS (a former name of RTI Connext implementation).
1998
- RTI is named “16th Fastest-Growing Company in Silicon Valley” by SV Business Journal.
2000
- Companies co-develop standard Real-Time Publish-Subscribe (RTPS) wire protocol.
2003
- US Navy adopts DDS for its Open Architecture (OA) initiative, becoming the first of more than 300 programs and projects to standardize on DDS.
- RTI chairs Object Management Group (OMG) standards effort for DDS.
2004
- US Navy adopts DDS as key to Navy OA guidance.
- OMG recognizes DDS as a standard.
2005
- Wind River Systems acquires ScopeTools product line.
- RTI focuses on DDS middleware. The middleware business experiences 50% growth.
- Related services grow 135%.
2007
- Middleware business 5-year CAGR is 34%.
- OMG adopts RTI-contributed DDS wire specification as a standard.
- RTI is elected to a board seat at OMG.
- INC Magazine names RTI one of the fastest growing private companies in the US.
2009
- RTI experiences aggressive expansion internationally; signs 13 distributors worldwide.
- RTI grows revenue and customer acquisition to over 25%, despite global economic downturn.
- RTI wins a prestigious Frost & Sullivan® Technology Leadership Award.
- RTI launches Professional Edition with comprehensive tools, middleware, integration technologies.
2010
- RTI finishes ninth consecutive year of growth in middleware business.
- RTI expands total active projects 50% to more than 300 teams.
- The number of RTI Connext deployments reaches 300,000.
- RTI’s commercial business grows rapidly, doubling the growth in aerospace and defense.
2011
- RTI demonstrates OMG DDS interoperability with four vendors, including IBM.
- RTI gains 70% of the DDS market share.
- RTI is recognized as a “Top Workplace in Silicon Valley” by Bay Area News Group.
2012
- RTI establishes the Spain Development Center (SDC) in Granada, Spain.
- RTI rebrands and expands; moves to larger HQ.
- RTI launches RTI Connext DDS product suite.
2013
- RTI publishes free Case + Code use case examples to accelerate DDS development efforts.
- RTI DDS Toolkit for LabVIEW extends DDS capabilities to NI LabVIEW.
- Project design win rate increases by 100+%.
- RTI is named a “Cool Vendor” by leading analyst firm Gartner.
2014
- RTI releases Connext DDS 5.1 with 60+ new features and support for 20+ new platforms.
- RTI is named the “Most Influential Industrial IoT Company” in an independent market study published by Forbes magazine.
- RTI joins 90+ industry-leading companies to form the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) with a goal to accelerate the development of connected industrial applications and to provide a common blueprint. CEO, Stan Schneider, is elected to the IIC steering committee.
- RTI launches Connext DDS Secure, the world’s first standards-compliant, off-the-shelf connectivity software that delivers the security, performance and safety required for deployment of the Industrial IoT.
- U.S. Army, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems and RTI announce FACE framework to enable the government to build interoperable, more cost-effective avionics systems.
2015
- RTI is named a “Vendor to Watch” by leading analyst firm, EMA.
- IIC announces Smart Grid Testbed as a result of collaboration of RTI, National Instruments and Cisco working with CPS Energy, Southern California Edison, Duke Energy and SGIP to optimize power generation and integration of renewable energy sources to electrical grids.
- RTI CEO, Stan Schneider, is named a “Top Embedded Innovator” by Embedded Computing Design Magazine.
2016
- RTI is named “IoT Emerging Company of the Year for the Enterprise Market” by Compass Intelligence.
- IIC announces new Connected Care Testbed as a result of collaboration between RTI, Infosys, PTC and Massachusetts General Hospital to develop an open IIoT data management and analytics platform for clinical and remote medical devices.
- RTI wins Department of Energy (DOE) funding to research smart grid security leveraging the DDS standard.
- The IIC releases the Industrial Internet Security Framework (IISF) co-authored by RTI.
- RTI is named “Must Follow IoT Company” by Postscapes.
2017
- RTI achieves record growth in new hires (32%) and in new customer engagements (173%).
- RTI releases Connext DDS 5.3 the first connectivity software for scalable IIoT systems-of-systems databus architectures.
- RTI announces RTI Labs, a free program that provides early access to new technology.
- The IIC releases the Industrial Internet Connectivity Framework (IICF) co-authored by RTI.
- RTI CEO, Stan Schneider, is named a “Top 10 Industrial IoT Influencer” by IoT One. RTI is named a “Top 25 Industrial IoT Company” by IoT One.
- RTI Connext DDS is named a “SIIA Business Technology CODiE Award Finalist for Best IoT Platform.”
2018
- RTI CEO, Stan Schneider, is elected as Vice Chair of the IIC Steering Committee.
- RTI wins SIIA CODiE Award for “Best IoT Solution 2018.”
- RTI grows its advisory board to four members including: Scott McNealy (Business), KT Neumann (Automotive), Raiford Smith (Energy) and Thomas Baptiste (MS&T).
- RTI announces the first connectivity software for highly autonomous vehicles at IoTSWC 2018 in Barcelona.
2019
- RTI reduces cost and risk of avionics integration with the first FACE Certified Transport Services Segment (TSS) Product.
- RTI announces the first medical-grade connectivity framework at HIMSS 2019.
- RTI earns Frost & Sullivan’s prestigious 2019 Global Product Leadership Award and is named the Global IoT Connectivity Leader for Healthcare.
- RTI is elected to leadership roles in the new DDS Foundation launched by the Object Management Group (OMG).
- RTI ships Connext 6 to customers, its largest product release to date.
- RTI awarded $1.5M U.S. Government contract to standardize DoD cybersecurity technology.
- RTI Named a 2019 Great Place to Work in both the US and Spain.
- RTI, Abaco and Wind River Partner to Deliver First COTS DO-254 and DO-178C Solution for Airborne Systems.
- RTI awarded $2M in Government contracts to advance DoD capabilities in modeling and simulation systems.
- RTI Unveils Connext Drive: The First Complete Automotive-Grade Connectivity Solution for Autonomous Vehicle Development.
- RTI Connext DDS Secure Receives Platinum Rating in 2019 Military & Aerospace Electronics Innovators Awards.
2020
- RTI announces new AV customers Baidu, Moovita and Voyage, to further empower the AV industry. RTI joins the Baidu Apollo Autonomous Driving Partner Ecosystem.
- RTI Named a 2020 Great Place to Work in the US and Spain for the second consecutive year.
- RTI joins the Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium (AVCC) to help define an architecture for highly autonomous vehicles.
- RTI joins the Autoware Foundation to expand global collaboration efforts to accelerate autonomous vehicle development.
- RTI and SoC-e partner to provide DDS and TSN solutions for distributed systems.
- RTI introduces enhanced ROS 2 support to accelerate development of scalable robotics systems.
2021
- RTI and NXP partner to advance autonomous driving.
- RTI introduces RTI Academy: a virtual on-demand learning platform for software developers and architects of autonomous systems.
- RTI earns 2021 Great Place to Work Certification in the U.S. and Spain for the third consecutive year.
- RTI announces the first software framework designed for widely distributed autonomous systems: Connext 6.1.
- RTI joins the Teleoperation Consortium to collaboratively advance autonomous vehicle adoption.
- RTI named to Parity.org’s 2021 best companies for women to advance list.
2022
- RTI earns Frost & Sullivan’s 2022 Enabling Technology Leadership Award for delivering next-generation connectivity software solutions.
- RTI earns 2022 Great Place to Work Certification™ in the U.S. and Spain for the fourth consecutive year.
- RTI joins the Renesas R-Car Consortium, expanding its ASIL D safety-certified Connext Drive solution to automated driving and ADAS applications.
- RTI announces Connext Drive 2.0, the production-grade connectivity framework for software-defined vehicles.
- RTI earns a spot on Parity.org’s Best Companies for Women to Advance list 2022.
- RTI and HoloMatic announce collaboration to accelerate autonomous driving in China.
2023
- RTI announces first Transport Services Segment (TSS) with FACE 3.1 conformance certification and DO-178C DAL A safety evidence.
- RTI joins NXP’s GoldVIP S32G Vehicle Integration Platform.
- RTI earns Frost & Sullivan 2023 Enabling Technology Leadership Award for the second consecutive year.
- RTI earns 2023 Great Place to Work Certification™ in the U.S. and Spain for the fifth consecutive year.
- RTI earns a spot on Parity.org’s Best Companies for Women to Advance list 2023.
- RTI announces Connext Drive 3.0, bringing functional safety and flexibility to software-defined vehicle development.
2024
- RTI earns 2024 Great Place to Work Certification™ in the U.S. and Spain for the sixth consecutive year.
- RTI Connext named “Best Overall Connected Healthcare Solution” in 8th annual MedTech Breakthrough Awards Program.
- RTI Connext Drive achieves ASPICE Capability Level 1 to improve development processes for the automotive industry.
- RTI awarded $1.25M to advance generative AI research for the United States Department of Air Force.
- RTI awarded Elite Supplier Status by Lockheed Martin’s Rotary and Mission Systems (RMS) division.
- RTI becomes the first DDS provider to meet all major automotive software safety standards: ASPICE CL1, ISO 21434, and ISO 26262.
- RTI announces DDS adoption into all AUTOSAR packages and platforms.
- RTI achieved ISO 21434 security certification by TÜV SÜD for Trusted Software Development Process.
- RTI achieved Trusted Software Development Process certification for functional safety up to ASIL D and SIL 3 by TÜV SÜD.
2025
- RTI surpasses 1 million vehicles on the road with Connext Drive inside.
- RTI Connext wins IoT Breakthrough Award for 2025 IoT Security Product of the Year
- RTI secures $1.25M U.S. Air Force contract to enhance next-generation data and networking systems.
