Maintained by the standards development organization Object Management Group (OMG), DDS is a middleware protocol and API standard for data connectivity that is advertised as ideal for business-critical IoT systems. DDS has been used in sectors such as public transportation, air traffic management, aerospace, autonomous driving, industrial robotics, medical devices, and missile and other military systems.
DDS has been used by organizations such as NASA, Siemens, and Volkswagen, as well as in the popular Robot Operating System (ROS).
