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Building an Innovative, open-source IoT platform for edge computing

Building an Innovative, open-source IoT platform
for edge computing

One of the biggest enablers for progressing IoT is the push for companies to obtain more and better data to remain competitive. Organizations need data to perform enhanced services, predictive maintenance, and real-time analytics. Yet, it’s difficult for real-world locations, such as hospitals, warehouses, and oil and gas companies to develop and deploy software to these “edge” locations quickly and inexpensively.
Kilton Hopkins, a technology visionary, Founder and CEO of Edgeworx, wanted to evolve IoT (Internet of Things) using edge computing and open source. In need of a software delivery partner to help accelerate his vision, Hopkins approached Forte Group. What started as a software engineering project grew into Forte Group integrating Kilton’s open-source IoT edge platform across healthcare, retail, and technology enterprises.

Building an Innovative, open-source IoT platform for edge computing

Comprehensive SDKs for building and running IoT software

Client:
Edgeworx

Industry:
Edge computing

Type of work:
Technology, Services

Technology and Platforms:
IoT, Fog Computing, Microservices, Mesh Network Technology, Linux API, Machine Learning

Background

  • Aiming to provide developers with a better way to build for IoT, Edgeworx rethought the way data was processed.
  • The company sought to create an advanced, open-source environment where developers could remotely run and manage software on any device closest to where the data resides (the edge) to allow business enterprises to gain time, reduce cost, and deliver accomplished multifunctional and flexible solutions.
  • To accelerate its edge computing application platform, ioFog, across operating systems, Edgeworx partnered with Forte Group.

Results achieved

  • With Edgeworx ioFog, building for the edge is as easy as building for the cloud. It’s container-based architecture, which Forte helped build, allows developers to easily leverage any language, framework, or SDK.
  • Not only does ioFog make building edge applications easier, but it also offers businesses a secure, cost-effective solution.
  • Having the subject matter expertise working with ioFog, Forte was able to use the platform to design and develop custom applications for businesses looking to be successful at the edge, but who didn’t have the time or technical capability to do so.

Business challenges:

Building an Innovative, open-source IoT platform for edge computing

Provide developers with a better way to build for IoT

Building an Innovative, open-source IoT platform for edge computing

Enable developers to remotely run and manage software on any device closest to where the data resides (the edge)

Building an Innovative, open-source IoT platform for edge computing

Allow business enterprises to gain time, reduce cost, and deliver accomplished multifunctional and flexible solutions

Building an Innovative, open-source IoT platform for edge computing

Accelerate its edge computing application platform across operating systems

Building an Innovative, open-source IoT platform for edge computing

Connect devices and sensors, integrate with various systems via a microservices architecture

Building an Innovative, open-source IoT platform for edge computing

Make it easier and less expensive for companies to utilize ioFog for their applications

Feature-based challenges:

Building an Innovative, open-source IoT platform for edge computing

Build a highly secure, open source platform

Building an Innovative, open-source IoT platform for edge computing

Create an advanced, open-source environment

Building an Innovative, open-source IoT platform for edge computing

Allow for real-time data processing and logic on the back-end

Building an Innovative, open-source IoT platform for edge computing

Give developers the ability to write in languages they already know, allowing them to develop containers, microservices, policies, and processes that work in the IoT middleware stack

Building an Innovative, open-source IoT platform for edge computing

“We love organizations like Forte Group and other integrator. They have the subject-matter expertise. We do not want to be in the business of writing applications. We want to be the platform that serves those applications; we want to be the infrastructure for the edge.”

Building an Innovative, open-source IoT platform for edge computing

Farah Papaioannou
Co-founder and president, Edgeworx

Solution highlights

Building an Innovative, open-source IoT platform for edge computing

A new version of the product compatible with other operating systems, initially built for and running on Linux.

Building an Innovative, open-source IoT platform for edge computing

An advanced technology stack composed of mesh network technology, machine learning on the edge, fog computing, and Linux kernel API to build a highly secure, open-source ioFog platform.

Building an Innovative, open-source IoT platform for edge computing

A microservices architecture connecting devices and sensors, integrate with various systems, and allow for real-time data processing and logic on the back-end.

Building an Innovative, open-source IoT platform for edge computing

Orchestration and management of the edge software (microservices) using the Edgeworx ioAuthoring application.

Building an Innovative, open-source IoT platform for edge computing

The system posessing a full set of technologies for building and running IoT software that executes wherever a developer chooses and in whatever programming language they choose.

Building an Innovative, open-source IoT platform for edge computing

Assistance in the development of tools (SDKs) to make it easier and less expensive for companies to utilize ioFog for their applications.

Building an Innovative, open-source IoT platform for edge computing

Design of the SDKs giving developers the ability to write in languages they already know, making it easy for them to develop containers, microservices, policies, and processes that work in the IoT middleware stack.

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