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LF Edge Member Spotlight: Edgenesis

By Blog, LF Edge, Member Spotlight

Author: Yongli Chen, founder & CEO at Edgenesis

About Edgenesis

Edgenesis is an open-source IoT interoperability and edge computing solution provider. 

Edgenesis is a technology company specializing in industrial edge solutions. We aim to drive standardization in device-driven IoT applications and offer flexible, efficient solutions to optimize production processes and reduce costs. Our team includes top talent from companies like Microsoft, McKinsey, Google, and Amazon, and we pride ourselves on our professionalism and efficiency. 

Using a Kubernetes-native development framework, we help clients deploy and manage devices and applications for various use cases. Our solutions provide critical data on devices and production processes, empowering clients to make data-driven decisions and stay competitive in the manufacturing industry. At Edgenesis, we are dedicated to innovation, constantly striving to improve our products and services to offer cutting-edge solutions. Our goal is to create a smarter, more connected world by leveraging our expertise in industrial edge solutions.

Why is your organization adopting an open source approach?

Mobile Internet was mostly about mobile phones connecting to the Internet to consume content. We’re now transitioning to the hyper-connected world era where digital intersects with every aspect of the physical world around us. Therefore digital solutions should mimic physical interactions. We believe in an ecosystem and the ability for solutions to interact across different vendors and providers. Now more than ever collaboration across the community is of importance. Therefore, we like to embrace an open-source model for any of our offerings.

Why did you join LF Edge and what sort of impact do you think LF Edge has on the edge, networking, and IoT industries?

We want to work with the LF Edge umbrella to facilitate the development of edge computing in a structured, collaborative way.

What do you see as the top benefits of being part of the LF Edge community?

One of the many benefits we see in being part of the LF Edge project community is the opportunity to collaborate with like-minded professionals across the globe. 

What sort of contributions has your team made (or plans to make) to the community, ecosystem through LF Edge participation?

Shifu, an open source Kubernetes-native industrial edge which enables IoT interoperability. Shifu virtualizes IoT devices into Kubernetes pods, and gives you the all-in-one Kubernetes cluster which orchestrates IoT devices and applications at the same time.

What sets LF Edge apart from other industry alliances?

It’s the only organization that focuses solely on all aspects of edge computing across verticals. 

 

Leaders in LF Edge: Interview with Michael Maxey

By Blog, LF Edge

Gartner predicts that by 2025, more than 50% of enterprise-managed data will be created and processed outside the data center or cloud, with an over $500 billion increase in the edge computing market by 2030. As edge computing becomes a significant revenue opportunity for the technology and telecom industries, it’s even more important to have effective leaders to advance the future of edge computing industry.

Today we sat down with Michael Maxey, Vice President of Business Development at Zededa. Maxey tells us how he got involved in the edge computing industry and why leaders must plan for the growth of IoT and edge.

How did you get involved in the LF Edge community and what is your role now?

I joined ZEDEDA in 2022 as the Vice President for Business Development, to drive the company’s efforts in building out a rich ecosystem of partners, and ultimately to enable customers an easy way to compile the disparate solutions their projects required. Getting involved with LF Edge was a natural extension of these efforts. Today I sit on the LF Edge Governing Board.

What is your vision for the edge computing industry? Tell us briefly how you see the edge market developing over the next few years.

What we’re seeing today within the edge computing industry is just scratching the surface of what is possible. Edge deployments are largely bespoke, with each enterprise building a unique stack to solve specific business needs. We’re going to see this change as the industry develops. Deployment patterns will lead to standardization of the lower levels of the technology stack, providing a common set of services to help build and deploy applications, much like the LAMP stack in the early days of computing. This standardization of services will unlock massive developer communities, who have been building in the cloud for the past 10 years, and as a result, will drive a massive transformation of computing outside of the data center.

What impact do you see open source playing in the evolution of the edge market? And how has it shaped where we are today?

Open source brings a lot of benefits but the biggest one I see within the edge market is that of standardization. It’s hard to get your head around scale at the edge – it’s not just the sheer number of deployed devices and sites, but it’s that number split across many different types of hardware, running many different applications, and all in service to an endless number of use cases.  Standardization is key to enabling interoperability across all of this heterogeneity and provides an open foundation that ensures organizations can build something without falling into the silo trap that hinders the growth of so many projects.

Why is LF Edge important to advance the future of edge computing?

LF Edge is important for a number of reasons. First, the organization is driving the standardization that the heterogeneity and scale of the edge requires. Second, it has taken the fragmented edge landscape and given people a common taxonomy and framework to discuss, define, and understand it. Third, it has brought together existing efforts to address different parts of the edge landscape under a common umbrella, not only enabling interoperability between those projects but illustrating how the complexity of the edge requires an ecosystem of solutions in order to solve individual problems.

What is ZEDEDA’s role in edge computing and LF Edge?

ZEDEDA delivers a distributed, cloud-native edge management and orchestration solution, simplifying the security and remote management of edge infrastructure and applications at scale. Through ZEDEDA’s ecosystem of partners, customers can easily deploy any application at the edge via a Marketplace, enabling customers ease of use as they use different solutions for their edge projects. ZEDEDA leverages EVE, an LF Edge project, to provide an open, flexible and secure foundation while abstracting the complexity of the diverse hardware, connectivity and software at the distributed edge and eliminating any vendor lock-in. ZEDEDA customers include Fortune 500 companies from industries like energy, automotive, and manufacturing with thousands of edge nodes in production today across the globe.

ZEDEDA was a founding member of LF Edge and in May of 2019 donated the original code for what became EVE to LF Edge. Today ZEDEDA is active within LF Edge at multiple levels: within EVE from an ongoing code development perspective to sitting on the LF Edge Governing Board, as well as the Technical Advisory Council and Outreach Committee to continually evangelizing LF Edge to analysts, the media, customers, and more.

What advice do you give to organizations who want to get involved in the LF Edge community?

Now is the time to get involved! There’s a real need across the industry to develop architectural blueprints, build solutions, and in general demonstrate the transformative value that can be gained by making sense of all of the data that organizations generate across their distributed environments. By getting involved now, organizations are able to have real impact driving standardization, developing recommendations, and helping to create solutions applicable across industries and use cases.

 

2022 LF Edge Annual Report – Update from the General Manager

By Blog, LF Edge

Launched four years ago, LF Edge has become the center of gravity for some of the most impactful open source edge computing projects in the world, building an open, modular framework for edge computing. Check out the section below on the 2022 LF Edge Annual Report update from Arpit Joshipura, General Manager, Networking, Edge & IoT at the Linux Foundation.

LF Edge community members meet and collaborate in-person at ONE Summit 2022

Entering its fourth year as an umbrella project, LF Edge continues to grow and thrive, with more and more deployments and use cases across the globe and across verticals, from Telco, to Smart Home, to Industrial IoT, to AI, Robotics, and more. Check out the section below on the 2022 LF Edge Annual Report update from the LF Edge Board, written by Tina Tsou, Enterprise Architect, Arm and LF Edge Governing Board Chair.

As we enter into 2023, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the great progress made as a community last year. Although we’re learning to live with a global pandemic, an uncertain economy, and more colorful geopolitical issues, all of these challenges didn’t slow down the growth of open source communities; with more innovation, and integration across verticals as the industry marches towards digital innovation.

One of the things that makes me most proud of LF Edge project is the fact that the community did not miss a beat in our work-from-home virtual world. In 2022, the number of LF Edge contributors increased by 138%, with an average of 1,120+ contributors per year. With 65+ members and 25%+ year-over-year membership growth, more and more organizations have joined LF Edge’s mission of unifying and providing edge computing projects, IoT frameworks and solutions/blueprints to serve the needs of Telecom Edge, Cloud Edge, IoT Edge, Industrial IoT Edge, Enterprise Edge markets, and more.

I wanted to also take a moment to look ahead to 2023, as well as recognize how the edge industry has shifted over the past year. 2022 was the tipping point for 5G, Edge & IoT deployments, all possible with Open Solutions, Open Collaboration and Open Communities. This year, the global collaboration in open source projects (including LF Edge) is better than ever. Our community has worked collaboratively across geopolitical and macroeconomic headwinds, which we intend to continue in 2023.

I’d like to close by thanking our entire community and ecosystem of members, developers, partners, and users. I hope to see more in-person or virtual collaboration happen in LF Edge this year. Here’s to a fantastic 2023 as we build the last cloud together — the edge!

Read the full 2022 LF Edge Annual Report, with community highlights from all LF Edge projects, TSC Chair, General Manager, Outreach Chair, and more.

2022 LF Edge Annual Report – Update from the LF Edge Board

By Blog, LF Edge

Entering its fourth year as an umbrella project, LF Edge continues to grow and thrive, with more and more deployments and use cases across the globe and across verticals, from Telco, to Smart Home, to Industrial IoT, to AI, Robotics, and more. Check out the section below on the 2022 LF Edge Annual Report update from the LF Edge Board, written by Tina Tsou, Director Infrastructure Ecosystem at Arm and LF Edge Governing Board Chair.

In-person LF Edge Board meeting at ONE Summit 2022

A warm welcome to 2022’s newest LF Edge members: Y-Semi, Emerson, Qianyi, and XUAT — thank you for joining us this year. We hope to develop strong bonds with all our new members as we continue working together.

I’d also like to congratulate all of our individual project communities (Alvarium, Akraino, EdgeX Foundry, eKuiper, EVE, Fledge, HomeEdge, SDO) for the progress made this year. We’ve seen more and more realworld deployments across a diverse set of use cases (including blueprints to address Robotics, Smart Data, OT, Metaverse, 5G, and Education & Healthcare, among others) and improvements to functionality, security & data privacy, connectivity, and more.

One of the community’s biggest accomplishments in 2022 is the LF Edge Industry Solution Showcase, which debuted onsite ONE Summit in November. The event returned to an in-person format and we had the opportunity to showcase eight project demonstrations within the LF Edge booth kiosks, focused on specific verticals: Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, Telc, and Retail. This is the first step in highlighting LF Edge’s mainstream deployments across a broad spectrum of organizations and communities. 2023 will be even better, with more details on the myriad of ways LF Edge can enhance edge computing. None of this could be possible without member companies, developers, users and the LF Edge staff.

  • Member companies have been generously providing resources to run a shared community lab, CI/CD, and community activities –including hackathons, developer events and project mini summits.Big thanks to all who helped fund this important work across the board and helped make our projects stronger.
  • We also give thanks to developers working hard within and across LF Edge. We would not exist without our dedicated and passionate developers, who are the glue that binds our project communities together.
  • LF Edge Sub-committees. The collective efforts of the LF Edge Strategy Planning Committee (SPC), Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), and Outreach Committee yielded needed updates to LF Edge Project Lifecycle Description and Criteria, the creation of the Industry Solution Showcase; and the growing amplification of use cases and deployments.

With the rise of IoT, 5G/6G, AI, and Metaverse, Edge is at the precipice of leading technology innovations. The practical application of Edge Cloud in more industries and scenarios will become mainstream; the work of this community is paramount in setting the stage for scalable development of open source Edge technology and standards. We expect many opportunities (and some challenges) in 2023 and I am confident in the power of this strong community to continue playing a key role in Edge innovation.

Read the full 2022 LF Edge Annual Report, with community highlights from all LF Edge projects, TSC Chair, General Manager, Outreach Chair, and more.

Leaders in LF Edge: Interview with Joe Pearson

By Blog, LF Edge

According to STL Partners, the total edge computing addressable market will grow from $10 billion in 2020 to $543 billion in 2030 at a compound annual growth rate of 49% over the 10-year period. As edge computing becomes a significant revenue opportunity for the technology and telecom industries, it’s even more important to have effective leaders to advance the future of the edge computing industry.

Today we sat down with Joe Pearson, LF Edge Technical Advisory Council (TAC) chair and Edge Computing & Technology Strategist at IBM. Joe tells us how he got involved in the edge computing industry and why leaders must plan for the growth of IoT and edge.

How did you get involved in the LF Edge community and what is your role now?

Thank you for this interview. I work at IBM for Rob High, an IBM Fellow and CTO of Software Networking and Edge Computing. Rob clearly saw two key points many years ago: that edge computing was going to be one of the next areas of innovation and opportunity, and that the best way to ensure widespread adoption would be through foundational edge computing components being released as open-source. This coincided nicely with the Linux Foundation bringing together existing edge computing projects and culminating with the launch of LF Edge in January 2019. I was fortunate to be involved from the beginning and worked with early pioneers in this space through LF Edge’s Technical Advisory Council (TAC).

Fast forward to 2022 and after incubating and launching one project, and being TAC Sponsor for two others, I was voted into the position of Vice-Chair of the TAC.  After serving under the leadership of Jim St. Leger I was recently elected to succeed him as TAC Chair. I also concurrently serve as Chair of the Open Horizon project’s Technical Steering Committee (TSC) within LF Edge.

What is your vision for the edge computing industry? Tell us briefly how you see the edge market developing over the next few years.

Wow.  Please note that I don’t have a crystal ball, and any insight I may have comes from personal observations and the informed opinions of those I trust. I do not speak on behalf of my employer.

I’ll answer those questions in reverse order. Edge computing, especially within open-source, is on the cusp of maturing. That means that we will see re-grouping as some efforts fail to meet expectations. There will be some consolidation in this space. And leading solutions will begin to emerge over the next six to twelve months. Based on that outlook several outcomes will likely happen and it’s my intention that LF Edge and Linux Foundation-hosted projects are involved and at the forefront.  

First, we need to show how LF Edge projects working together can solve both current and future business needs in the following ways: 

  • reducing solution implementation time-to-value by leveraging existing cloud-native tooling and standards, 
  • aiding in application modernization efforts by serving as the foundational framework for cloud-agnostic edge deployments with easily-swappable components,
  • discouraging vendor lock-in by creating and supporting industry and de-facto standards,
  • supporting hardware heterogeneity by promoting and using edge-native development and pipeline creation best practices,
  • demonstrating all of the above with freely-available source code using software licenses that respect contributor intellectual property in order to encourage both community participation and framework adoption.

Second, we need to lead the way in creating, documenting, using, and promoting standards and specifications that enable a healthy and open edge computing ecosystem. A shining example of this is how many LF Edge projects have embraced the FIDO Device Onboard Specification 1.1 for automated, zero-touch device and application deployments.

Third, we’d like to encourage all educational institutions, governments, enterprises, and other organizations to work with us to help shape the open edge computing framework to best meet their needs and requirements.  They can do this by working within individual project communities, by joining LF Edge as Premier, General, or Associate members, and/or by helping to create and run End User Solution Groups.

By working together towards those goals, we can prevent the proliferation of walled gardens and competing incompatible solutions that have prevented equitable cloud growth over the last decade and stifled greater potential innovation.

What impact do you see open source playing in the evolution of the edge market? And how has it shaped where we are today?

Without open-source, all we would have is vendors offering a series of proprietary ecosystems competing with each other to lock customers in. Further, there would be fewer incentives for collaboration between the larger players. Essentially, open-source prevents the edge computing market from being a zero-sum game and ensures portability between vendor solutions. It also levels the playing field between larger and smaller entrants while encouraging innovation at an increased rate. This is one of many reasons why you’ll see revolutionary advancements and experimentation happening in edge computing that just weren’t possible in cloud computing.

With open-source edge computing standards and specifications, we’re beginning to see OEMs and ODMs realizing the benefits of supporting an open approach while enabling competing solutions to emerge. This means fewer licensing fees, not as many unique SKUs needed, and working with communities and standards bodies. Now we still have a ways to go towards generating the critical mass of support that we need in the market, but we’re slowly getting there.

Why is LF Edge important to advance the future of edge computing?

LF Edge is certainly not the only organization involved in edge computing open-source software development. There are many other fine organizations, including our friends in both the Eclipse Foundation and the Apache Foundation. They each have slightly different approaches and governance structures, but our aims are compatible.  

What LF Edge brings that is different from the others is the scale, maturity, and track record of the Linux Foundation itself and the sheer number and variety of organizations already working together within the LF Edge organization and with its projects. This critical mass makes it simpler for both startups and established enterprises to invest time and effort in a single foundation for maximum reach and influence. And the expertise of other groups within the Linux Foundation are being leveraged to make significant strides that may not have otherwise been possible. For example, the OpenSSF best practices are not only helping LF Edge projects to address current security issues on the edge, but they’re also enabling innovation in critical new features like SBOM support.

But arguably more important than that is the promise that LF Edge does not play favorites when it comes to collaboration. Towards that end, the Eclipse Foundation has joined LF Edge as an Associate member and LF Edge projects are exploring opportunities to work together with Eclipse projects to create joint solutions in areas such as Industry 4.0 and Software Defined Vehicles.

What advice do you give to organizations who want to get involved in the LF Edge community?

Make sure that your organization has a clear idea of what vertical(s) you are targeting, who your customers are, and what you are trying to achieve. With those items clearly defined, it becomes much easier to determine which projects to work with initially, and what value you can bring to the community.  

Don’t expect the existing member companies to do the heavy lifting on your behalf.  Instead, think about how your involvement can benefit everyone. And be prepared to contribute resources to help efforts succeed, even if your organization may not see an immediate direct benefit. For example, Intel seeded the initial funding for mentorship stipends within LF Edge, and helped more than eight college students to each spend a semester studying directly with industry mentors and working on important features in LF Edge projects over the last few years.

And be prepared to work together with the other members knowing that each member individually may not always achieve the goals of their organization, but as long as we continue to advance the goals of LF Edge we’re still making forward progress.

About LF Edge:

LF Edge is an umbrella organization to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system. With the support of 29 Premier members, 28 General members and 14 associate members, LF Edge hosts 11 projects including Akraino, EdgeX Foundry, Project EVE and more.

Advance the future of edge computing with LF Edge and become a paying member.

Leaders in LF Edge: Interview with Tina Tsou

By Blog, LF Edge

According to Gartner, more than 50% of enterprise-managed data will be created and processed outside the data center or cloud by 2025, with an increase of  over $500 billion in the edge computing market by 2030. As edge computing becomes a significant revenue opportunity for the technology and telecom industries, it’s even more important to have effective leaders to advance the future of the edge computing industry.

Today we sat down with Tina Tsou, LF Edge Governing Board Chair, and Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem at Arm. Tina tells us how she got involved in open source, the edge computing industry, and why leaders must plan for the growth of IoT and edge.

How did you get involved in the LF Edge community and what is your role now?

I have been involved in the Akraino project specifically since 2018 before the LF Edge umbrella organization was formed in 2019. My role was Akraino Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Co-Chair, and later Akraino TSC Chair, LF Edge Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) member, and then most recently, I was elected Chair of the LF Edge Governing Board. I help the LF Edge community from both a technical and governance standpoint. 

What is your vision for the edge computing industry? Tell us briefly how you see the edge market developing over the next few years.

From the perspective of edge cloud technology development, edge cloud technology must not only conform to the technical route of cloud computing development, but also meet edge innovation services and new requirements of the scene. This places high demands on the software and hardware of edge cloud technology. Overall, “converging” technology and “collaboration” technology will become the core of edge cloud technology development.

In terms of computing technology, computing power virtualization technology is gradually developing towards the edge cloud-native direction at the edge. It’s the development direction of converged computing technology.

In terms of network technology, hyper-converged network architecture is the main trend of edge networks.The trend of integration of network technologies is developing towards the direction of cloud-network integration.

In terms of storage technology, distributed “cache” technology will gradually become the mainstream of edge cloud storage technology. The group ensures the security, reliability, redundancy and backup requirements of data storage, and also meets the timeliness and periodic requirements of data read and write.

In terms of edge management and control technology, the unified management and control technology will continue to be upgraded, and at the same time, a perfect hierarchical management system will be established between the center and the edge. A control mechanism is used to realize the coordination and unification of edge clouds at the resource and business level.

In terms of edge hardware infrastructure technology, with the introduction of heterogeneous devices such as smart network cards, GPUs, and NPUs, edge hardware will support the integration of a large number of heterogeneous devices in the future. At the same time, in order to meet the customization requirements of edge scenarios, there will also be Lots of custom equipment.

As technology evolves, so does standard placement and work. With the gradual improvement of edge cloud industry standards, general requirements such as related term definitions and basic service capabilities in the field of edge cloud technology are also improved. At the same time, standards are gradually regulating the development of edge cloud technology and services. In the future, the industry will continue to promote the standardization process of edge cloud: edge cloud hardware, focusing on edge cloud hardware for scenario-based applications (cloud games, cloud applications, codecs, bare metal, etc.), edge cloud all-in-one machines, etc.; edge cloud platform services In terms of edge cloud management and control, the focus is on edge cloud management, automated operation and maintenance, global scheduling, etc. In terms of edge cloud applications, the focus is on the edge for industries and application scenarios. Cloud services (government, industry, audio and video, etc.), etc.

In the future, with the continuous evolution and development of edge cloud technology and standards, it will promote the practical application of edge cloud in more industries and scenarios, and expand cloud services. It can help the distributed and ubiquitous development of computing power, and accelerate the digital transformation process of various industries.

What impact do you see open source playing in the evolution of the edge market? And how has it shaped where we are today?

Open Source collaboration helps to drive standards, differentiation versus innovation with benefits. Open source helps to remove vendor lock-in and enable automation, speed of innovation and deployment. Successful open source development depends on the complete life cycle of projects, products that the market can adopt and deploy. 

Using open source best practices, LF Edge enables communities to leverage CI/CD infrastructure. 

Closed Innovation

  • The smartest people work for us
  • We must build it ourself
  • We can get to market first
  • Controlling R&D is our path to growth
  • Controlling our IP helps limit competition

Open Innovation

  • We work with smart people everywhere
  • It takes an organized community to build it
  • Building better matters more than being first
  • We don’t have to originate all the research
  • We profit from others and others profit from us
Why is LF Edge important to advance the future of edge computing?

In the Connected Vehicle Blueprint (CVB) project, we established a collaborative architecture between the central cloud and the roadside MEC computing unit through the following architecture:

The real-time video of the road is obtained through the camera on the roadside, and the image AI processing work is carried out in the roadside MEC to achieve the goal of the road.

Monitoring and tracking, scene recognition and traffic abnormal scene judgment in the central cloud, early warning through 5G and V2X message distribution.

During the Winter Olympics, based on some technical achievements of the vehicle-road collaboration in the CVB project, Tencent and China Unicom created a 5G vehicle-road coordination full-link travel service. Before traveling, you can use the car-hailing service to book an online car-hailing service that supports vehicle-road coordination.

During the travel process, the vehicle-road coordination service provides the user’s vehicle with a traffic warning service. After reaching the destination, the car provides automatic parking services based on vehicle-road coordination.

What is Arm’s role in edge computing and LF Edge?

Arm is a leading contributor in the LF Edge Catalog to reduce friction to deployment of LF Edge Templates, and provide a centralized location for all deployable Templates (Template = software + configuration). The catalog provides recipes for deploying templates. 

Arm leads System Security on the Edge aspects. During Akraino blueprint development, blueprint owners may put a lot of effort into analyzing security threats and implementing security features in their projects. However, in many cases, blueprint owners assume that the blueprint execution environment is well-protected and does not require their attention.

Such assumptions may lead to attacks using platform-level vulnerabilities that interfere with the blueprint functionality and cause the loss of private or critical data. For this reason, the requirements for platform-level security should be considered an important part of blueprint requirements.

The Akraino PSA, Platform Security Architecture, defines core security requirements for Akraino platforms and blueprint execution environments. Akraino PSA requirements are platform agnostic and define security requirements for platform hardware and system software. Arm developed a Platform Abstraction Interface, made available to Akraino blueprints, to securely access the platform’s runtime services and secure devices.

Arm is also a leading contributor of the Akraino blueprint family, ” Project Cassini for a Cloud Native Edge,” This BP family provides a common API for hardware security and cryptographic services in a platform-agnostic way, helping to keep workloads decoupled from physical platform details,  which then enables cloud-native delivery flow within the data center and at the edge.

What advice do you give to organizations who want to get involved in the LF Edge community?

If you are a deployer, and you think about your specific use case, come to LF Edge to navigate which project you feel like to get involved in. Solution Showcase will give you ideas you want to deploy for Telco, Energy, or Retail, etc.

If you are a developer, you want to figure out whether you want to apply multi-cloud multi-tenancy in vRouter, using Tensung Fabric, or just want it to integrate MindSpore to KubeFlow on KubeEdge? LF Edge has a wide spectrum for developers to play, join our slack channel, and ask any questions.

About LF Edge:

LF Edge is an umbrella organization to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system. With the support of 29 Premier members, 28 General members and 14 associate members, LF Edge hosts 11 projects including Akraino, EdgeX Foundry, Project EVE and more. 

Advance the future of edge computing with LF Edge and become a paying member

LF Edge in 2022 – A Sneak-Peek at Cumulative Innovation in the Open Edge

By Blog, LF Edge

Edge Computing — as defined by the 2021 State of the Edge Report — is the delivery of computing capabilities to the logical extremes of a network in order to improve the performance, security, operating cost and reliability of applications and services. As a natural extension of cloud computing — and estimated by analysts to be at least four times the size of cloud computing — the edge cloud construct is increasingly viewed as a key enabler for the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” in which the widespread deployment of IoT, the global sharing economy, and the increase of zero marginal cost manufacturing deliver unprecedented communication-driven opportunities with massive economies of scale.

Now in its third year as an umbrella organization, LF Edge has become the center of gravity for some of the most impactful open source edge computing projects in the world, building an open, modular framework for edge computing. LF Edge’s common governance and collaborative resources unify open the edge market, with massive global industry support accelerating the adoption and deployment of edge applications across sectors verticals, including  Telecommunications, Cloud, IoT, Industrial IoT, Retail, AI/ML, Factory Floor, Smart Home, and more. 

As data gravity continues to shift away from the centralized cloud to a distribution from edge to cloud, organizations of all types benefit from edge computing, yielding lower latency, reduced bandwidth costs, and maximized security and privacy; it means the work of LF Edge is more crucial than ever. Key impacts of LF Edge in 2022 are evidenced by both the project’s tenet publications, and a robust set of new use cases in deployment. Highlights include:

  • At the Olympic Games Beijing 2022, Tencent collaborated with China Unicom and created a multi-access edge computing (MEC) platform to track and analyze real-time traffic data, based on Akraino’s Connected Vehicle Blueprint.
  • Project Alvarium is providing trustworthy sustainability reporting and validated carbon emission measurements for organizations that are accurately tracking their carbon footprint.
  • UC Davis and Opus One uses Fledge to create safer wine-making conditions via multi-node wireless sensor network to produce world class wine.
  • Open Horizon components were leveraged in the Mayflower Autonomous Ship, which successfully sailed across the Atlantic ocean unmanned. 
  • Retailers use EdgeX Foundry to combine POS, RFID, Weight Scale and Computer Vision data to alert associates in real time, improving self-checkout efficiency and saving costs.  
  • A hiker used Fledge to collect temperature, humidity and air quality data while hiking on the beautiful Laugavegur trail in Iceland.

The complete annual report will include a culmination and summary of the many works done by the broader LF Edge community. It’ll be available in January 2023. Stay tuned! 

Emerson Joins LF Edge as Premier Member, Helps Shepherd Fourth Industrial Revolution

By Announcement, In the News, LF Edge
  • Leading industrial software and technology company commits to further innovation at the open source edge with LF Edge 
  • Emerson Technology VP, Claudio Fayad, keynotes ONE Summit to discuss how the Industrial Edge is Powering Industry 4.0
  • LF Edge maturity on display at ONE Summit, with Solution Showcase featuring cross-project and cross vertical deployment solutions

SEATTLE, Washington. ONE Summit North America  November 15, 2022 LF Edge, an umbrella organization within the Linux Foundation that establishes an open, interoperable framework for edge computing independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system, today announced Emerson has joined the project as a Premier member. The news comes just as the LF Edge community showcases a robust round of deployed solutions spanning Telco, Retail, Energy and Manufacturing verticals, via in-booth demonstrations at ONE Summit happening this week in Seattle, Wash. 

Emerson, a global software and technology company providing innovative solutions for customers in industrial and commercial markets, joins other existing LF Edge Premier members: AMD, American Tower, Arm, AT&T, AVEVA, Baidu, Charter Communications, Dell Technologies, Dianomic, Equinix, F5, Fujitsu, Futurewei, HP, Huawei, Intel, IBM, NTT, Radisys, RedHat, Samsung, Tencent, VMware, Western Digital, ZEDEDA.

As part of its boundless automation vision for a software-defined automation architecture to catalyze the future of modern manufacturing, Emerson is connecting operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) from the field to the edge and cloud. A core element of this vision is a modern industrial edge architecture that will require disruptive innovation for the execution of real-time workloads. Emerson will partner with the LF Edge members to build the infrastructure that will enable this vision. 

“We are pleased to welcome Emerson to the roster of leading technology innovators committed to transforming open source edge computing,” said Arpit Joshipura, general manager, Networking, Edge and IOT, the Linux Foundation. “Emerson’s role in leading innovation across the industrial, commercial and enterprise space will be integral in helping to transform the industry at the brink of the fourth industrial revolution.”

“Edge computing will be a core capability for the future of industrial manufacturing, unlocking the flexibility and data democratization companies use to drive innovation,” said Claudio Fayad, vice president of technology for Emerson. “By decoupling the framework for edge computing from hardware, operating system, silicon and even cloud, LF Edge will improve collaboration and innovation across multiple industry verticals. Emerson is proud to be a key contributor to that vision.”

Emerson VP of Technology, Claudio Fayad, joined ZEDEDA founder and CEO, Said Ouissal, on the ONE Summit keynote stage to discuss how the Industrial Edge is powering the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The thought leaders shared real-world insights on how industrial companies looking to unlock insights from real-time production and machine data can leverage the use of a secure, cloud-connected OT edge to modernize existing infrastructure. 

LF Edge Deployments on Display

Collaborative, real-world deployment solutions based on LF Edge projects are on display in the LF Edge booth on the ONE Summit show floor via the new LF Edge Industry Solution Showcase. For the first time ever, the community is presenting concrete examples of how LF Edge is currently solving  real market needs. Eight demos are displayed in the LF Edge booth at four kiosk stations, each focused on a specific vertical: Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, Telo, and Retail. 

More details on the specific solutions and how they qualify, as well as videos and slides, are available on the LF Edge wiki. 

Akraino Blueprint  & LF Edge Member Team Wins ETSI & LF Edge Hackathon 

Team DOMINO—a collaboration between Equinix and Aarna Networks—won the 2022 ETSI & LF Edge Hackathon for its innovative Edge application in 5G scenarios using Akraino Public Cloud Edge Interface (PCEI) blueprint. The solution demonstrates the orchestration of federated Multi-access edge computing (MEC) infrastructure and services and shows how telco providers can enable sharing of their services in a MEC Federation environment.

Learn more about the winning submission and get the submission materials on the Akraino wiki.

About the Linux Foundation

Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation and its projects are supported by more than 3,000 members. The Linux Foundation is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation projects are critical to the world’s infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, ONAP, Hyperledger, RISC-V, PyTorch, and more. The Linux Foundation’s methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

Your Guide to LF Edge (+ Related) Sessions at ONE Summit

By Akraino, Blog, EdgeX Foundry, Event, Home Edge, LF Edge, Open Horizon, Project EVE

In case you missed it, the ONE Summit agenda is now live! With 70+ sessions delivered by speakers from over 50 organizations, at ONE Summit, you can meet industry experts who will share their edge computing knowledge across 5G, factory floor, Smart Home, Robotics, government, Metaverse, and VR use cases, using LF Edge projects including Akraino, EdgeX Foundry, EVE and more.

Save your seat for the ONE Summit today and add these edge sessions to your schedule. We hope to see you in Seattle, WA November 15-16!

Tuesday, November 15:

9:00am – 9:15am

11:30am – 12:00pm

12:10pm – 12:40pm

12:10pm – 12:40pm

2:00pm – 2:30pm

2:40pm – 3:10pm

  • Proliferation of Edge Computing in Smart Home
    • Speakers:
      • Suresh Lalapet Chakravarthy, Staff Engineer, Samsung R&D Institute India – Bangalore
      • Nitu Sajjanlal Gupta, Lead Engineer, Samsung R&D Institute India – Bangalore
    • Featured LF project: Home Edge

3:40pm – 4:10pm

3:54pm – 4:01pm

4:20pm – 4:50pm

  • 4:20pm – 5:30pm
    • Featured LF project: Project EVE
Wednesday, November 16

11:30am – 12:00pm

12:10pm – 12:40pm

2:00pm – 2:30pm

  • Deploying and Automating at the Edge
    • Speakers:
      • William Brooke Frischemeier, SR. Director Head Of Product Management Unified Cloud BU, Rakuten Symphony
      • Mehran Hadipour, VP- BD & tech Alliances, Rakuten Symphony

3:40pm – 4:10pm

4:20pm – 4:50pm

4:20pm – 5:30pm

Hurry! Early Bird (Corporate) registration closes September 9! Bookmark the ONE Summit website to easily find updates as more event news is announced, and follow LF Edge on Twitter to hear more about the event. We hope to see you in Seattle soon!

 

LF Edge Releases Industry-Defining Edge Computing White Paper to Accelerate Edge/ IoT Deployments

By Akraino, Announcement, Baetyl, EdgeX Foundry, eKuiper, Fledge, Home Edge, LF Edge, Open Horizon, Project EVE, Secure Device Onboard, State of the Edge

Collaborative community white paper refines the definitions and nuances of open source edge computing across telecom, industrial, cloud, enterprise and consumer markets

 SAN FRANCISCO – June 24, 2022 –  LF Edge, an umbrella organization under the Linux Foundation that aims to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system, today announced continued ecosystem collaboration via a new collaborative white paper, “Sharpening the Edge II: Diving Deeper into the LF Edge Taxonomy & Projects.” 

A follow-up to the LF Edge community’s original, collaborative 2020 paper which provides an overview of the organization and details the LF Edge taxonomy, high level considerations for developing edge solutions and key use cases,the new publication dives deeper into key areas of edge manageability, security, connectivity and analytics, and highlights how each project addresses these areas. The paper demonstrates maturation of the edge ecosystem and how the rapidly growing LF Edge community has made great progress over the past two years towards building an open, modular framework for edge computing. As with the first publication, the paper addresses  a balance of interests spanning the cloud, telco, IT, OT, IoT, mobile, and consumer markets.  

“With the growing edge computing infrastructure market set to be worth up to $800B by 2028, our LF Edge project communities are evolving,” said Jason Shepherd, VP Ecosystem, ZEDEDA  and former LF Edge Governing Board Chair. “This paper outlines industry direction through an LF Edge community lens. With such a diverse set of knowledgeable stakeholders, the report is an accurate reflection of a unified approach to defining open edge computing.” 

“I’m eager to continue to champion and spearhead the great work of the LF Edge community as the new board chair,” said Tina Tsou, new Governing Board chair, LF Edge.  “The Taxonomy white paper that demonstrates the accelerated community momentum seen by open source edge communities is really exciting and speaks to the power of open source.” 

The white paper, which is now available for download,  was put together as the result of broad community collaboration, spanning insights and expertise from subject matter experts across LF Edge project communities: Akraino, EdgeX Foundry, EVE, Fledge, Open Horizon, State of the Edge, Alvarium, Baetyl, eKuiper, and FIDO Device Onboard. 

ONE Summit North America 2022

Join the broader open source ecosystem spanning Networking, Edge, Access, Cloud and Core at ONE Summit North America, November 15-16 in Seattle, Wash. ONE Summit is the one industry event focused on best practices, technical challenges, and business opportunities facing decision makers across integrated verticals such as 5G, Cloud, Telco, and Enterprise Networking, as well as Edge, Access, IoT, and Core. The Call for Proposals is now open through July 8, 2022. Sponsorship opportunities are also available. 

 

About The Linux Foundation 

Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 1,000 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation’s projects are critical to the world’s infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, and more.  The Linux Foundation’s methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see our trademark usage page: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

 

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