60% Faster IoT Application Deployment and 40% Lower Costs with Open-Source Edge Platform for Edgeworx

Edgeworx set out to make edge computing as easy as building for the cloud—secure, open-source, and developer-friendly. With Forte Group’s engineering expertise, ioFog evolved into a scalable, cross-platform solution that reduced costs, accelerated IoT adoption, and empowered developers with flexible SDKs.

Key Business Metric Highlights

• 60% faster IoT application deployment

• 40% reduction in development costs through open-source SDKs and reusable tooling

• 3x developer productivity using familiar languages and frameworks

• Cross-OS compatibility, expanding adoption beyond Linux

• Adoption across 3 industries (healthcare, retail, technology)

Business Context

Enterprises needed better ways to build and run IoT solutions at scale:

• High costs with proprietary, vendor-locked IoT systems.

• Developers constrained by unfamiliar languages and rigid stacks.

• Limited ability to orchestrate and manage applications across devices.

• Difficulty processing real-time data at the edge.

• Lack of scalability across diverse industry use cases.

Solution

Forte Group collaborated with Edgeworx to accelerate ioFog into a developer-first IoT platform:

• Cross-OS compatibility, expanding the platform beyond Linux.

• Microservices architecture connecting devices and sensors with real-time data processing.

• Advanced technology stack including mesh networking, fog computing, and machine learning at the edge.

• ioAuthoring orchestration tool to deploy and manage edge software.

• Comprehensive SDKs enabling developers to code in familiar languages.

• Lower-cost adoption path, replacing expensive proprietary solutions with open-source flexibility.

• Secure architecture, built with Linux API and best practices for enterprise resilience.

Results & Value Delivered

The partnership produced measurable business outcomes:

• 60% faster IoT application deployment, reducing barriers to adoption.

• 40% lower development costs through reusable SDKs and open-source tooling.

• 3x boost in developer productivity, allowing faster iteration and deployment.

• Adoption across healthcare, retail, and technology industries, validating scalability.

• Future-ready capabilities, with ML and fog computing enabling predictive analytics and real-time insights.

• Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) for enterprises investing in IoT.

Forte Group accelerated Edgeworx’s vision, evolving ioFog into a secure, cross-platform edge solution that cut IoT costs by 40%, sped deployment by 60%, and scaled adoption across industries.