IOTech upgrades Edge Xpert platform, goes ‘edge-to-edge’ against AWS
IOTech has announced a significant upgrade of its Edge Xpert platform. The IoT deployment tool is based on Linux Foundation’s open-source compute platform EdgeX and IOTech has redesigned Edge Xpert for communications between microservices at the edge. It has also added a new message bus and APIs to improve the platform’s performance. These improvements follow the release of version 2 of EdgeX, a project to which IoTech contributed.
IoTech is an Edinburgh-based software company looking to help organizations “Develop, deploy connect and manage IoT at scale.” It sees an opportunity where hyperscalers cloud providers efforts in this space fall short. Cloud vendors are mature and come in top-down, but they struggle at the edge. Microsoft has the more mature edge strategy, but all three are struggling with connectivity and the dozens of different protocols out there. Typically cloud vendors only have two options: MQTT and REST.
Edge Xpert has a redesigned UI, among other features
Source: IoTech
The hyperscale IoT offerings also have compute issues, according to IOTech. AWS Greengrass comes with the overhead of Java, and that ignores the problem that at the edge, hardware might come in the form of ARM devices with less than 1MB in RAM. IoTech has a tiny embedded platform layer for devices called EdgeXRT and a platform manager, dubbed Edgebuilder, that gives customers wanting to provision and operate an IoT environment much more flexible and appropriate options.
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edge applications | EdgeX | IoT | IOTech | Linux Foundation | open source
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