pxGrid Overview

pxGrid is a protocol framework that defines the control mechanisms to facilitate machine-to-machine communications

Protocol framework

pxGrid is a protocol framework of high level mechanisms that can be use with any type of transport protocol.

Control mechanisms

Borrowing the terminology "Control" and "Data" from networking:

• pxGrid defines only "Control" mechanisms:
  • Discovery
  • Authentication
  • Authorization
• "Data" between consumers and providers is not part of pxGrid. pxGrid does not restrict "Data" transports. In other words, pxGrid can adapt to any "Data" transport.

Machine-to-machine

Because the machine-to-machine communication is faciliated by pxGrid:

• Reduce complexity of meshed network
• Centralized authentication and authorization
• Provides service abstraction
• Minimize human errors or laziness:
  • Human-generated password
  • Reuse of same passwords
  • Missing configurations