SDK in development Mica

Next-generation show control.

Mica enables seamless, reliable connectivity between software and hardware devices, for real-time control and monitoring as well as data sharing.

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Features

Everything a control network needs.

Mica is built from the ground up for the realities of live production: many disciplines, many devices, and no room for dropped commands.

Flexible

  • Totally discipline-agnostic, enabling cross-departmental usage while maintaining independent production networks.
  • Fully bi-directional control and monitoring of real-time and non-real-time data.
  • Very low client performance requirements, so it runs on low-level and resource-constrained devices.
  • Securely bridge control over the wider internet.
  • Connect non-Mica devices via Mica Bridge software.

Discoverable

  • Network discoverability built in, via mDNS or manual discovery gateways.
  • Every device’s capabilities are discoverable by any other device on the network, with real-time notifications when they change.

Reliable

  • A persistent, reliable connection concept, independent of data IO.
  • Support for advanced and flexible failover scenarios for every component in the control network.

Efficient

  • Centralised management of network data streams for minimal bandwidth usage.
  • Reliable and unreliable stream types, with intelligent multicast management to minimise unnecessary data transport.

Accurate

  • Data travels in its native format with full resolution and semantics: no mapping to 8-bit integers.
  • Aware of stateful and non-stateful data, with a full state management system that resolves competing control requests in real time by priority.
  • Understands low-level timing and synchronisation, with PTP integration.

Secure

  • Encrypted by default, and integrates with existing third-party auth systems.
  • Device-level roles and access permissions for every network resource.

SDK

Add Mica to any software.

Mica support can be integrated into any software using the free-to-implement SDK. Browser applications via WebAssembly and a hardware development kit for bare-metal microcontrollers are also planned.

WindowsSDK
Supported
macOSSDK
Supported
LinuxSDK
Supported
BrowserWebAssembly
Planned
MicrocontrollersHardware dev kit
Planned

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