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

Written by Forte Group | Mar 1, 2024

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.