EdgeX Foundry Announces Production Ready Release Providing Open Platform for IoT Edge Computing to a Growing Global Ecosystem
SAN FRANCISCO, July 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- EdgeX Foundry, a project under the LF Edge umbrella organization within the Linux Foundation that aims to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge IoT computing independent of hardware, silicon, application cloud, or operating system, today announced the availability of its "Edinburgh" release. Created collaboratively by a global ecosystem, EdgeX Foundry's new release is a key enabler of digital transformation for IoT use cases and is a platform for real-world applications both for developers and end users across many vertical markets. EdgeX community members have created a range of complementary products and services, including commercial support, training and customer pilot programs and plug-in enhancements for device connectivity, applications, data and system management and security.
Launched in April 2017, and now part of the LF Edge umbrella, EdgeX Foundry is an open source, loosely-coupled microservices framework that provides the choice to plug and play from a growing ecosystem of available third party offerings or to augment proprietary innovations. With a focus on the IoT Edge, EdgeX simplifies the process to design, develop and deploy solutions across industrial, enterprise, and consumer applications.
The fourth release in the EdgeX roadmap, Edinburgh offers a stable API baseline for the standardization of IoT edge applications that future-proof IoT investments by fostering an ecosystem of interoperable microservice-based capabilities and decoupling investments in edge functionality in areas such as connectivity, security and management from any given backend application or cloud. The EdgeX framework is designed to facilitate the secure deployment and management of devices and applications at the edge to accelerate time-to-market and enable new data-based services and capabilities such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).
"Since its launch, EdgeX Foundry has experienced significant momentum in developing an open platform that can serve as the industry framework for IoT and edge-related applications," said Arpit Joshipura, general manager, Networking, Edge and IoT, the Linux Foundation. "EdgeX Foundry is one of the anchor projects for LF Edge and Edinburgh release is a major step in unifying open source frameworks across IoT, Enterprise, Cloud and Telco Edge."
"Having started the EdgeX movement with a small team at Dell before contributing the code to the Linux Foundation, it's certainly amazing to see the traction we've gotten through open, vendor neutral collaboration in a few short years," said Jason Shepherd, former chair of the EdgeX Foundry Governing Board and IoT and Edge CTO, Dell Technologies. "It's a testament to the power of the network effect in the open source community which ultimately enables developers to focus on value rather than reinvention."
Edinburgh is Ready for Production Deployment
EdgeX Foundry's community adoption continues to accelerate. Currently, there are more than 100 unique contributors to the project and code downloads are approaching 5,000 a month at a 75% month-to-month growth rate. Momentum is expected to continue with EdgeX's Edinburgh release and rapidly growing commercial support in the ecosystem.
Key features for this release include:
-- Stability: Stable API's protecting future investment and supporting
future long term support
-- Connectivity: More SDKs for north and southbound connectivity and a
wider range of standard connectors
-- New Features: Significant new features, including binary data support,
database swapability and improved APIs to help facilitate
management/monitoring capability
-- Global Support: Support from the global EdgeX Foundry ecosystem - as
well as the broader LF Edge umbrella community - that offers a range of
complementary products and services
"With this EdgeX Edinburgh release, we will radically change how businesses develop and deploy IoT edge solutions," said Keith Steele, chair of the EdgeX Foundry Technical Steering Committee and CEO of IOTech. "Edinburgh is a significant milestone that showcases the commercial viability of EdgeX Foundry and the impact that it will have on the global IoT edge landscape."
Learn more about documentation, a new use case and the technical details for the Edinburgh release on the EdgeX website.
Market Utilization of EdgeX Foundry
Since the project inception, there have been tens of thousands of trials and pilot deployments of the EdgeX framework in the field and many of these are converting to production with the Edinburgh release. Several organizations already provide commercial solutions based on EdgeX, with many others folding it into their product roadmaps. For example:
-- Edge Xpert: From IOTech Systems, Edge Xpert uses the latest stable
release of EdgeX Foundry to create a commercially supported solution
from the baseline open source technology. IOTech will also soon announce
hard real-time extensions to EdgeX.
-- MFX-1 IoT Edge Gateway: From Mainflux, the MFX-1 IoT Edge Gateway based
on the EdgeX Foundry framework, is an edge computing solution supported
with the EdgeFlux application for gateway management. Integrated with
Mainflux IoT Cloud Platform it provides comprehensive Cloud /Edge IoT
System.
-- NetFoundry Ziti Edge: NetFoundry's Ziti Edge provides programmable,
software-only "Northbound" connectivity for EdgeX Gateway applications
and services. Based on Zero Trust security principles, with integrations
for HW root of trust based identity and Trusted Execution Environments
(TEE), Ziti Edge delivers secure "Silicon-to-Cloud" connectivity, using
any Internet connection, while keeping both sides of the connection
"dark" to the Internet.
-- VMware Supports EdgeX: Developers who deploy any combination of EdgeX
Foundry and/or Project Photon OS with VMware Pulse IoT Center can
receive support from VMware for both Pulse IoT Center and EdgeX open
source software. When used with Pulse IoT Center's device management
capabilities, open source tools such as EdgeX offer developers increased
control over how, when, and where they run their applications and manage
their data.
The EdgeX framework is also being leveraged in various industry collaborations. For example, in collaboration with the Industrial Internet Consortium® (IIC) EdgeX is used as the foundation for the Optimizing Manufacturing Processes by Artificial Intelligence (OMPAI) testbed which explores the application of AI and industrial internet technologies, deployed from the edge to the cloud, to optimize automotive manufacturing processes. EdgeX is also the foundation for the Open Retail Initiative (ORI) which has the goal of facilitating open innovation within the retail/commerce space. Work for the ORI is manifested within the Commerce Working Group in the EdgeX project and initial target use cases include computer vision-assisted advanced loss prevention.
Planning Ahead
Later this summer, the first EdgeX Foundry ecosystem hackathon will be hosted in the Bay Area. This initial event will be tied to the Commerce Working Group, hosted by Intel within the EdgeX project, with various award categories for implementation of the EdgeX framework in retail use cases. The best all-around winner will get to showcase their solution at future LF Edge or EdgeX Foundry events. Details will be available in late July via the EdgeX website, email list and Slack channel.
Additionally, LF Edge will host a workshop entitled "State of the (LF) Edge" on August 20 in San Diego, Calif., co-located with Open Source Summit North America (August 21-23). More details are available here.
For more information about LF Edge and its projects, visit https://www.lfedge.org/
Support from Contributing Members and Users of EdgeX Foundry
-- "EdgeX Foundry is the key component of Beechwoods IoT gateway solution
that allows our customers to engage confidently in edge computing
technology. With the Edinburgh release, this solution will be ready to
transition from customer engagement to product deployment." - Brad Kemp,
President, Beechwoods Software
-- "The Edinburgh release of EdgeX Foundry brings much needed
standardization and stability for edge computing in production
environments through an open source, common framework. The availability
of the EdgeX Foundry snap enables developers an easy path to getting
started with EdgeX Foundry, and benefit from confinement, easy
integration into their own infrastructure, and automatic updates. In
addition, this release introduces new device snaps providing integration
with MQTT and ModBus."- Loic Minier, IoT Field Engineering Director,
Canonical
-- "As EdgeX Foundry reaches maturity with the Edinburgh release,
CloudPlugs is excited to also announce the integration of the CloudPlugs
IIoT platform with the open EdgeX ecosystem. CloudPlugs IoT is a robust
backend to deploy, orchestrate and manage EdgeX-compliant devices and
micro service-based applications, as well as to manage and visualize
field data. The EdgeX framework provides new levels of flexibility in
field-level interoperability and the combination of EdgeX with
CloudPlugs IoT delivers a powerful, end-to-end software and service
stack to digitize assets and to deploy commercial and industrial IoT
solutions at scale." - Jimmy Garcia-Meza, CEO, CloudPLugs Inc.
-- "EdgeX Foundry provides an important software platform standardizing on
the south bound IoT device connectivity and northbound data storage
connectivity and allows vendors to plug-in their core IoT capabilities
in between. FogHorn is aligned with this data ingestion and publication
standardization and will continue to collaborate as appropriate." -
Sastry Malladi, CTO, FogHorn
-- "The EdgeX platform offers HMS Networks a path to quickly build
Industrial IoT solutions by providing predefined set of services for I/O
functionality. HMS has created a J1939 service for EdgeX platform to
help simplify IoT solutions for the commercial vehicle telemetry market.
Ultimately, the EdgeX platform will significantly reduce the R&D
investment required to create a majority of the Industrial IoT
applications required in the market today." - Tom McKinney, Director
Engineering Services and Business Development, HMS Networks
-- "EdgeX Foundry is an important project arriving at the right time. It
promises to connect devices to capabilities, and then get out of the way
so you can run containerized workloads to generate insights, run model
scoring, or detect anomalies... all at the edge. IBM is collaborating
with EdgeX Foundry as part of our hybrid cloud strategy to help
enterprises unlock the value of data from on-premises to the cloud to
the edge." - David Boloker, Distinguished Engineer, IBM
-- "EdgeX Foundry's open source platform enables the industrial software
ecosystem to integrate rapidly with ioTium's managed services converged
infrastructure offering - it's microservices framework with open APIs is
a powerful driver in the fragmented Industrial Control Systems market.
ioTium enables rapid scalable deployment of the EdgeX Foundry framework
globally."- Ron Victor, CEO, ioTium
-- "EdgeX Foundry provides an open framework for ease of design,
development, & deployment at the Edge, while addressing stringent
security, privacy & compliance requirements. NetFoundry added its
vendor-agnostic, connectivity-as-code solution to EdgeX in order to
enable developers and integrators to get similar ease of use, security
and performance for their northbound application connectivity to core,
clouds and service meshes. With the release of the EdgeX Edinburgh
release, the EdgeX Foundry developer community has all the tools needed
to deliver on market needs and ensure secure, agile innovation at the
Edge" - Galeal Zino, CEO, NetFoundry Inc.
-- "As Digital Transformation for IoT gathers momentum, companies are
demanding the same reliability, performance and security at the edge as
they are used to getting from their Cloud Computing stack. With this
release, EdgeX with Redis Labs RedisEdge not only delivers upon those
expectations, but provides an ecosystem of open source technologies and
plug-ins such as Redis Modules that help developers innovate." - Dave
Nielsen, Head of Community and Ecosystem Programs, Redis Labs
-- "EdgeX Foundry addresses the problem of the license stack at the IoT
Edge constantly increasing in cost by providing a well architected, high
performance, open source platform that can be used for industrial
solutions today." - Mike Malone, Vice President, Technotects, Inc.
-- "EdgeX Foundry's global community ecosystem has experienced explosive
growth, and the tangible advances delivered in the EdgeX Edinburgh
release are exciting developments for edge computing. We fully support
EdgeX Foundry's goals to establish an open interoperable framework for
edge computing to provide developers with increased control over how,
when, where and with whom they run their applications and manage their
data. We look forward to continuing our contributions to the EdgeX
Foundry community and related efforts in fostering open industry-wide
innovation such as the Open Retail initiative." - Mimi Spier, Vice
President, Edge and IoT Business, VMware
-- "As a founding member of LF Edge, Wipro is proud to have contributed to
the Edinburgh release. We will continue to actively participate as it is
a key platform for delivering open, microservices-based, edge IoT
applications for today's interoperable distributed enterprise world." -
Andrew Aitken, general manager and global open source practice leader,
Wipro Limited.
-- "ZEDEDA's vision is to free cloud-native and legacy apps to run on any
edge device anywhere in the world. This vision drives our support for
EdgeX Foundry and its mission of promoting open interoperability between
edge devices. We've made our virtualization solutions compatible with
EdgeX releases because we believe they will have a central role in our
industry's future." - Joel Vincent, VP Marketing, ZEDEDA
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