The EdgeX Foundry community is back in Hannover this year, showing off the progress our members have made in developing a common interoperability framework and platform designed to make collaboration on Industrial IoT solutions that scale happen faster – and with less risk.
Our community is exceptionally proud of the members we’ve attracted, nearly 80 members in 17 countries including representation from the United Kingdom, South Korea, Serbia, Spain, Tunisia, Canada, Israel, Germany and Japan. We are equally proud of the composition of our collective – from small, agile start-ups, to some of the largest tech companies in the world.
In fact, our ecosystem continues to grow and today we welcome the addition of five new members, including Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP), ETRI, ISSAT Mateur, Samsung SDS and Volterra.
Award Winning
What’s great about the mix is the co-existence of so many diverse businesses, technologists, business development experts, and overall problem solvers that bring a unique perspective of leadership and innovation. In fact, this year, to mark our first anniversary, we launched the first annual EdgeX Foundry Community Awards to honor those individuals who have contributed in leadership and innovative solutions.
Community members nominated their peers and the EdgeX Foundry Governing Board selected two winners for the Contribution Award, which highlights leaders who have helped EdgeX Foundry advance momentum this year, and the Technical Steering Committee (TSC) selected two winners for the Innovation Award, which recognizes individuals who have contributed the most innovation solution.
We are excited to announce that Drasko Draskovic, CEO and Founder of Mainflux, and Tony Espy, Technical Architect for Devices and IoT for Canonical, Ltd, as winners of the Innovation Award for their extensive technical contributions. Andy Foster, Product Director for IOTech, and Drasko Draskovic are being recognized with the Contribution Award for their exemplary leadership that has made a significant impact on growing EdgeX as an open source project and interoperability platform.
Tony Espy from Canonical at Hannover Messe receiving the Innovation Award
Going Commercial
In addition to honoring these outstanding achievements from the EdgeX community, our first anniversary also introduces the fact that several project members, including Cavium, Cloud of Things, Dell, IOTech, Mocana, RSA and VMware, have already started to provide commercial solutions based on EdgeX, while others have embedded EdgeX technologies into their product and solution roadmaps.
More exciting news? The Government of Serbia Innovation Fund has awarded member Mainflux a grant to develop MFX-1, an IoT edge gateway powered by EdgeX platform. (For more information about the grant, click here.)
Hannover Messe
If you’re at Hannover Messe, the EdgeX Foundry booth, located in Hall 6: B17, will feature interactive demos from Canonical, Dell, IOTech, IoTium, RSA, Software AG and VMware. (Demo information can be found in this blog.) If you’re there, swing by to ask questions or congratulate Tony Espy and Andy Foster on their awards!
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