In this case study video I'm going to interview Jelle Nelis, a senior software architect at the Department of Internet Technology at iMinds. I am going to talk to him about DYAMAND. Hi Jelle. >> Hi Eilene. >> Can you tell us a little bit more about the problems that DYAMANDS are trying to solve? Well, in our departments, we do a lot of research in all the aspects of the internet of things. One of the problems there is is there is a wide variety of new technologies that all claim to be IoT but they don't interoperate with one another. And that's exactly the problem DYAMAND is just trying to solve. Trying to combine all those technologies so that applications can use them. >> And how do you solve that? Can you tell us what DYAMAND exactly is? >> Well, DYAMAND is a software platform that enables application developers to more easily develop connected applications without having to put efforts into actual communication with those devices and the variety of that. >> And how did you come up with this problem and with the solution for it? >> Well in 2006, the first year I worked with iMinds, I had the first vague idea because I was involved in a number of research project where I saw that integration and interoperability between different systems, different kind of technology was the real problem. But it was only until 2011 that DYAMANDS were actually born. So in the beginning of 2011 I first create an architecture for DYAMAND, and in summer of 2011 the first implementation of DYAMAND was ready. >> And now DYAMAND is helping the researchers and other people to implement all this? >> Yes. >> Okay, and can you give some cases in which this is used? Well, it has been used in a number of national and European projects, over a wide variety of domains. So, it has been used in energy projects, where energy measurements were necessary or smart plugs were used. It has been used in entertainment project as mentioned. Where only things networked hard drives were used with also smart tv's and things like that. And the recent bust it was also used in an EIT project. >> Together with Proctor and Gamble where we develop parts of an office management solution, namely the part that communicated with all the different types of sensors, sort of motion sensor in door context and things like that. >> Thank you for this introduction, Jelle. In the other videos, we're going to dive a little bit deeper into the requirements of DYAMAND, the quality attributes of DYAMAND and the architecture for it.