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- Is the software that communicates between the physical IoT devices and sensors, with Enterprise data storage, enterprise analytics, and intelligence engines
- Collects data from “south side” devices and sensors
- Provides a small amount of intelligence or analytics (rule engines, CEP, limited machine learning) at the edge to provide early edge)detection and warning capability
- Transforms and packages data for “north side” Enterprise systems and services
- Is a microservice-based architecture that enables third parties (partners, vendors, customers, and so forth) to provide, replace, or augment their own solutions within the stack
At this time, other companies' and groups' open source projects exist that are targeting Edge X Foundry is not alone connecting to the Internet of Things (IoT). Why use Edge X Foundry and what are the advantages?
- Flexibility. Edge X Foundry is polyglottic enabling Developers to develop components in any software language and not be limited to only one language, such as Java
- We provide the SDK Edge X Foundry provides the Software Development Kit (SDK) to provide scaffolding
- Dell is Edge X Foundry is supported by Dell, a large, stable, experienced, reliable presence in the world, and in high tech industries
Architectural Tenets
Edge X Foundry has the following attributes:
- Hardware independent (Intel, Arm, ...and so forth)
- OS independent (Windows, Linux, *nix, ...and so forth)
- Flexible deployment models (virtualization, containerization, local, cloud, ...and so forth)
- Microservices everywhere for everything--independently developed, deployed, updated modules of the gateway software and reduce reduction of single points of failure
- Productivity over technology--select your programming language (polyglotpolyglottic), select your framework
- Best practices solutions, and supports the ecosystem (any microservice can be replaced by a better service or one that better supports a particular use case)
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