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About LF Edge

LF Edge is an umbrella organization that aims to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system. By bringing together industry leaders, LF Edge will create a common framework for hardware and software standards and best practices critical to sustaining current and future generations of IoT and edge devices.

We are fostering collaboration and innovation across multiple industries including industrial manufacturing, cities and government, energy, transportation, retail, home and building automation, automotive, logistics and health care — all of which stand to be transformed by edge computing

LF Edge creates a unified community for Open Source Edge Computing that...

Fosters cross-industry collaboration across IOT, Telecom, Enterprise and Cloud ecosystems
Enables organizations to accelerate adoption and the pace of innovation for edge computing
Delivers value to end users by providing a neutral platform to capture and distribute requirements across the umbrella
Seeks to facilitate harmonization across Edge projects

Mission statement:

LF Edge unifies and provides Edge Compute projects, IOT frameworks & blueprints to serve the needs/use cases of Telecom Edge, Cloud Edge, Enterprise Edge, User Edge and Industrial Edge markets.