EdgeX welcomes EMQ Enterprise and Foundries.io as new members to help create a unified edge ecosystem
SAN FRANCISCO – December 13, 2018 – EdgeX Foundry, an open-source, vendor-neutral project that enables an ecosystem of plug-and-play components to unify the IoT edge computing marketplace, today announced the availability of its enhanced Delhi code that offers management features, additional security functionality, new Software Developer Kits (SDK), and an updated user interface. This third major code release also offers the ability to connect to a wide-range of databases and operate EdgeX in lightweight devices.
IoT solutions are inherently heterogeneous and an open IoT interoperability framework like EdgeX Foundry accelerates time to value in developing and deploying real-world use cases such as building automation, energy management, asset management and logistics. The Delhi code, which was initially released in November, enables users to manage important functions such as buffering and filtering data, applying security measures and the ability for organizations to select and use the data store that best fits their use case and system needs.
“The EdgeX Foundry framework enables developers to build complete IoT Edge solutions from an open ecosystem of EdgeX compatible microservices for sensor connectivity, analytics, cloud connectivity, deployment and more,” said Keith Steele, EdgeX Foundry Chair of the Technical Steering Committee and CEO of IOTech. “The Delhi release includes the initial system management capability, the next wave of security features, and offers the opportunity to select the database of choice. It saves the developer time and resources and now offers the opportunity for them to use EdgeX in lightweight devices.”
Key features and benefits for the Delhi code include:
- The first EdgeX system management capability, as the one-stop shop for managing an instance of EdgeX;
- Security features such as access control to grant access to appropriate services and improved security service bootstrapping;
- New Go-lang and C SDKs that allow developers to create smaller, lighter and faster device/sensor connecting services;
- A collection of sample services and a new simple simulator that developers can use to learn the EdgeX device service framework and speed up their development efforts;
- New user interfaces that help to visually showcase EdgeX functionality;
- Improved resiliency, more decoupled and better tested services;
- Updated EdgeX services that connect with a wider-range of databases such as Redis and MongoDB; and
- The EdgeX Foundry snap published in the the Snap Store for the first time.
The full list of Delhi features can be found here and more about the enhancements to the Redis connection can be found in this Redis Labs blog post.
Hosted by the Linux Foundation, the EdgeX platform is architected to run on any hardware or operating system and unify components coded in any programming language to accelerate time to market and simplify the deployment of secure IoT solutions. The framework serves as a de facto standard to bring together any mix of existing connectivity protocols with an ecosystem of heterogeneous value-add applications.
As EdgeX Foundry continues its technical momentum, it also welcomes EMQ Enterprise and Foundries.io to join the many member companies that hail from 18 countries across the globe.
“The EdgeX Foundry technical community intends to build on Delhi and offer even more customization in areas like messaging, security, communications and system management as we move forward,” said Jason Shepherd, EdgeX Foundry Governing Board Chair and Dell Technologies IoT and Edge Computing CTO. “We are excited to welcome these new member companies into the community and help us get one step closer to a trusted unified edge ecosystem.”
New member quotes:
“EMQ X is one of the most popular IoT message brokers in the open source community that supports several IoT protocols such as MQTT, MQTT-SN, CoAP and LwM2M. We are also investing in developing open source edge brokers that can support different IoT protocols with small footprints running on edge devices,” said Feng Lee, EMQ X CEO and Project Initiator. “As an open-source, vendor-neutral project that enables an ecosystem of plug-and-play components, EdgeX Foundry easily helps the 3rd party integrate different components to the framework. We are excited to join EdgeX Foundry and contribute our expertise to the community and build better edge solutions.”
“Our mission is to provide secure, OTA updatable platform (firmware and OS) architecture and cloud independent software for Edge and Fog devices” said George Grey, CEO of Foundries.io. “EdgeX Foundry and other container-based technologies provide the applications and services platforms for provisioning and deployment of the next generation of Edge computing. We look forward to participating in the EdgeX Foundry community with our complementary open source “southbound” platforms to accelerate time to market for secure OTA updatable products based on EdgeX.”
About EdgeX Foundry
EdgeX Foundry is an open source project hosted by The Linux Foundation building a common open framework for IoT edge computing and an ecosystem of interoperable components that unifies the marketplace and accelerates the deployment of IoT solutions. Designed to run on any hardware or operating system and with any combination of application environments, EdgeX enables developers to quickly create flexible IoT edge solutions that can easily adapt to changing business needs. To learn more, visit: www.edgexfoundry.org.
About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world’s top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and industry adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools, training and events to scale any open source project, which together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one company. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org.
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