ABSTRACT Bi-annually, the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society of IEEE sponsors the Real Time conference. At this conference it is mostly physicists that present their developments around the online systems in these fields. These presentations are focused mainly on real-time applications but nevertheless the whole range of control systems for detectors is covered, which is similar to the ICALEPCS conference. Even though the topics covered are quite similar the participants tend to be different with only a few people attending both events. Therefore, this paper will summarize and highlight the key presentations of the Real Time conference where they are interesting for the ICALEPCS community. Such topics are "system architecture", "front-end signal processing", "trigger and data acquisition", "online databases", and "online processing farms"
