Written by Intel’s Ying J Lu, EdgeX Foundry Community Member
On July 3, the EdgeX Foundry Challenge Shanghai 2020 was successfully kicked off as a joint effort among EdgeX community members Intel, VMware, Dell Technologies, HP, Thundersoft, IOTech, Tencent, and Shanghai startup incubator Innospace.
Leaders from the Linux Foundation and LF Edge welcomed community members for a virtual kick-off of the EdgeX Challenge, aimed at building a learning platform for EdgeX Foundry ecosystem partners in China. This initiative enables development of open, scaled industry solutions. It brings together participants with in-depth industry knowledge and developers to identify use cases to solve top industry problems and build demonstrations that move toward an integrated commercial solution. So far, more than 16K people have tuned in to view the challenge kick-off.
Why is edge important?
In today’s data-driven landscape, the Internet of Things provides a number of sensors and terminal devices with a variety of protocols, creating complexity to integrate them into a unified platform. To address the increasing demand to introduce new workloads such as artificial intelligence at the edge, fuse data on customers’ premises and the interwork with different cloud service providers, this and future EdgeX challenges will help to accelerate a community of practice for architecting modern solutions.
As the world’s learning open edge computing framework, EdgeX Foundry is well positioned to address the edge opportunities as well as its complexity. “Intel is committed to support development of EdgeX Foundry”, says Wei Chen, Vice President of the Intel IOT Group, “including active code contribution, strong evangelism, and active development within the open source EdgeX ecosystem. Intel is also supporting the EdgeX China Project, which specifically supports the EdgeX Foundry community in China.”
Intel has also been actively collaborating in the greater open edge ecosystem by introducing OpenVINOTM toolkits to accelerate AI at the edge, growing the Open Retail Initiative to create and drive adoption of data rich solutions in retail leveraging open source ingredients, and launching Edge reference implementations for Retail and Industrial use cases available at the Intel’s Edge Software Hub. All of these efforts focus on nurturing a healthy and strong edge compute ecosystem.
The Challenge Highlights
The EdgeX Challenge Shanghai is co-hosted by the Linux Foundation and Science & Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (STCSM). The goal is to create a space for collaboration, using state-of-the-art technology frameworks, such as EdgeX Foundry which is part of the Linux Foundation, to address business challenges related to commerce and industrial verticals.
There are two major tracks covering the following industries:
- Commerce: Retail, banking, hospitality, education, smart home, healthcare, cities and campus
- Industrial: Manufacturing, power, oil and gas, utilities
The Challenge contest consists of two rounds, before winners are selected. In the preliminary round, all participants are required to submit an ideation document to describe how EdgeX-based technical frameworks are used in conjunction with a relevant industry use case. Judges will then select ten use cases to compete in the final round. Each team must demonstrate and showcase their solution which will consist of an interview by the judge’s review committee. Three levels of prizes will be awarded to winning teams.
Challenge Timeline:
Join the Competition
Registration for the EdgeX Challenge Shanghai is open until July 20, 2020. All are welcome—system integrators (SIs), independent solution vendors (ISVs), original equipment manufacturers (OEM, developers, universities and research institutes—to join the challenge.
Register here by July 20, to join the EdgeX Challenge Shanghai.
To see the kickoff from July 3, visit the EdgeX Challenge Shanghai 2020 video challenge here.
Collaborate with the EdgeX Foundry community
- China Project: Local community forum, go here to subscribe to mailing list: https://wiki.edgexfoundry.org/display/FA/China+Project
- Vertical Solutions: Global forum, go here to subscribe to mailing list: https://wiki.edgexfoundry.org/display/FA/Vertical+Solutions+Working+Group
