Mica is a next-generation show control technology. It enables seamless, reliable connectivity between software and hardware devices for both real-time control/monitoring and data sharing.

• Flexible

  • Totally discipline-agonistic, enabling cross-departmental usage while maintaining independent production networks.

  • Fully bi-directional control and monitoring of real-time and non-realtime data.

  • Very low client performance requirements, allowing use on low-level and resource constrained devices.

  • Securely bridge control over the wider internet.

  • Support for connecting non-Mica enabled devices via Mica Bridge software.

• Discoverable

  • Network discoverability built-in via mDNS or manual discovery gateways.

  • All device capabilities fully discoverable by any other device on the network, with real-time notifications when capabilities change.

• Reliable

  • Persistant reliable connection concept, independent of data IO. Instant feedback when devices

  • Support for advanced and flexible failover scenarios for all components in the control network.

• Efficient

  • Centralised management of network data streams to allow minimal bandwidth usage.

  • Reliable and unreliable data stream types, and intelligent management of multicast streams to minimise unnecessary data transport.

• Accurate

  • All data can be communicated in it’s native format with full resolution and semantics, no mapping to 8-bit integers.

  • Awareness of stateful and non-stateful data. Full state management system with real-time resolution of concurrent competing control requests via a priority system.

  • Understanding of low-level timing and synchronisation, integration with PTP.

• Secure

  • Encrypted by default, integrate with exist third-party auth systems.

  • Support for device-level roles and access permissions for all network resources.

Mica support can be integrated to any software using the free-to-implement SDK, supporting Windows, macOS and Linux platforms. Support for usage in browser applications via WASM, and a hardware development kit for bare-metal microcontroller devices are also planned.

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