Apache camel based implementation of an industrial middleware solution

The current trend in industrial automation towards the implementation of Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems requires a common way for different systems to communicate with each other. Since an industrial production system is typically very inhomogeneous, where many of its components communicate using different protocols and data formats, a common integration platform is necessary. Such a platform is called a Middleware and is capable of acting as a data routing and processing engine for a system. With the specific needs coming from an industrial context in mind, this paper describes implementation details of an instance of such a Middleware, which has been specified and developed within the European research project PERFoRM. This paper describes how the solution, which is based on Apache Camel, is fit into PERFoRM's architectural design and how it is used and appended to fit the specific requirements defined within PERFoRM.