Page History

The below is a snapshot of where the existing projects under LF Edge currently sit. Updates to the taxonomies should be requested through the Project's TAC representative. The Glossary Project will further define the terminology as outlined below.

Last Updated:

Akraino
EdgeX (April 19, 2019)
Glossary
Home Edge
Project EVE
(May 16, 2019)
Alvarium (September 7, 2022)
Baetyl (OpenEdge) (July 22, 2019)
EdgeX Foundry (September 19, 2022)
eKuiper (June 8, 2021)
Fledge (FogLAMP) (June 27, 2019)
Home Edge (October 14, 2022)
Open Horizon (April 9, 2020)
Project EVE (April 3, 2023)
Fido Device Onboard (August 9, 2023)
Fledge (July 28, 2021)

Existing Projects by Function (Provide, Consume, Facilitate, or N/A; Add context as needed)

Functions	Akraino	Baetyl	EdgeX	eKuiper	Fledge	Home Edge	Open Horizon	Project EVE	FDO
APIs	Provide	Provide	Provide	Provide	Provide, Consume, Facilitate - Microcontroller Example - South Microservice (esp8266)	Provide	Provide, Consume	Provide	Provides
Cloud Connectivity	Provide	Provide, not only Baidu Cloud	Provide	Provide	Provide, Consume and Facilitate - North repos, GCP, OSI-OMF, Azure	Provide	Consume	Provide	Consumes
Container Runtime & Orchestration	Provide	Consume	Consume	Consume	Consume - (debian, rpm, docker, Project Eve)	Consume -(Docker)	Provide, Consume, Facilitate	Provide for Edge Container	Consumes
Data Governance	NA	Provide	N/A	N/A	Provide and Facilitate - Auditing logs and asset tracking.	In Future	N/A		Provide and Facilitate
Data Models	Provide	N/A	Provide	Provide	Provide, Consume and Facilitate	In Future	Consume, Facilitate	Provide for Edge Container (not app data)	N/A
Device Connectivity	Provide	Provide, MQTT protocol	Provide	Consume	Provide, Consume and Facilitate	Provide	Consume	Provide (incl LTE, WiFi, serial)	Consumes – HTTP, HTTPs, with architectural support for other connectivity protocols not yet implemented
Filters/Pre-processing	Provide	Provide	Provide	Provide	Provide and Facilitate	In Future	N/A		N/A
Logging	Provide	Provide	Provide	Provide	Consume	In Future	Consume	Provide for its own runtime	Provides
Management UI	Provide	Provide, not determined yet	Facilitate	Provide, not open sourced	Provide, Consume and Facilitate	In Future	N/A	Provide for its own runtime	Provides (some use cases)
Messaging & Events	Provide	Provide	Provide	Consume	Provide, Consume and Facilitate	In Future	N/A		Provides
Notifications & Alerts	Provide	Provide, under developing	Provide	Consume	Provide, Consume and Facilitate	In Future	N/A		Provides
Security	Provide	Provide	Provide	Consume	Provide, Consume and Facilitate	Provide	Provide, Consume, Facilitate	Provide	Provides
Storage	Provide	Provide	Provide	Facilitate	Provide, Consume and Facilitate - Buffering	Provide	Consume	Provide (local virtual disks)	N/A

Existing Projects by Function

Functions	Akraino	EdgeX	Glossary	Home Edge	Project EVE
APIs	✔	Cloud Connectivity	✔	Container Runtime & Orchestration	✔	Data Governance	Data Models	Device Connectivity	✔	Filters/Pre-processing	✔	Logging	✔	Management UI	Messaging & Events	✔	Notifications & Alerts	✔	Security	✔	Storage	✔

Existing Projects by Deployment & Industry Verticals (Support, Possible, N/A; Add context as needed)

Glossary✔✔✔

Deployment Type	Akraino	Baetyl	EdgeX	eKuiper	Fledge	Home Edge	Open Horizon	Project EVE	FDO
Customer Devices (Edge Nodes)		Support	Support	Support	Support	Support	Support	Support (Agent)	Support	Support
Customer Premises (DC and Edge Gateways)	Support	Support	Support	Support	Support	Support	Support (Agent, Management Hub)	Support✔	Support
Telco Network Edge (MEC and Far-MEC)	Support	Support	Possible	Support	Possible	NA	Support (Management Hub)	Possible	Possible
Telco CO & Regional	Support	Support	Possible	Support	Possible	NA	N/A		Possible
Cloud Edge & CDNs		Support	Support	Possible	Support	Possible	Possible	N/A		Support
Public Cloud		Support	Support	Possible	Support	N/A	Possible	N/A		Support
Private Cloud	Support	Support	Possible	Support	N/A	Possible	N/A		Support

Existing Projects by Deployment & Industry Verticals (✔ or X; Add context as needed)

Metal & Mining

Directly applicable Industry/Verticals Verticals use cases	Akraino	Baetyl	EdgeXGlossary	eKuiper	Fledge	Home Edge	Open Horizon	Project EVE	FDO
Automotive / Connected Car	✔	✔	x	✔	X	X	✔		✔
Chemicals		X	✔	✔	✔	X	✔	Cloud Operators	Cloud Service Provider		X
Facilities / Building automation		✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Consumer	✔	X	✔	✔	X	✔	X		X
Manufacturing	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔ - Production deployments	X	✔	✔	✔
Metal & Mining		✔	✔	✔	✔ - PoCs	X	✔	Data Centers & IT	Enterprise	✔	Facilities	✔	Home Edge	✔	Manufacturing	✔	✔
Oil & Gas	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔ - PoCs	X	✔	✔	✔
Pharma	✔	X	✔	✔	✔ - PoCs	X	✔		X
Health Care		X	X	✔	X	✔	X		X
Power & Utilities	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔ - Production deployments	✔	✔	✔	✔
Pulp & Paper		X	✔	✔	✔	X	X		X
Telco Operators	✔	✔	X	✔	X	X	✔		✔
Telco/Communications Service Provider (Network Equipment Provider)	✔	✔	X	✔	X	X	✔		✔
Transportation (asset tracking)	✔	✔	✔	✔	X	X	✔		✔
Supply Chain		✔	✔	✔	X	X	✔		✔
Preventative Maintenance		✔	✔	✔	✔ - Production deployments (Not a vertical)	✔	✔		✔
Water Utilities	✔

Existing Projects by Use Case

	X	✔	✔	✔ - PoCs	X	✔	✔	X
Security / Surveillance	✔	✔	✔	X	✔	✔	✔	✔
Retail / Commerce (physical point of sale with customers)	X	✔	✔	X	X	✔	✔	X
Other - Please add if not listed above (please notify TAC-subgroup@lists.lfedge.org when you add one)		Energy, Smart venue

Deployments (static v dynamic, connectivity, physical placement) - (✔ or X; Add context as needed)

Glossary✔

Use Cases	Akraino	Baetyl	EdgeX	eKuiper	Fledge	Home Edge	Open Horizon	Project EVE	Fixed placement edge constellations (edge compute nodes in a relatively permanent location)	FDO
Gateways (to Cloud, to other placements)	✔	✔	Mobile deployments, static services, intermittent connectivity	✔	NFV Infrastructure	On-demand events	Wearables	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
NFV Infrastructure	✔	X	X	✔	X	X	X		X
Stationary during their entire usable life / Fixed placement edge constellations / Assume you always have connectivity and you don't need to store & forward.	✔	✔	✔	✔	X	✔	✔	✔	✔
Stationary during active periods, but nomadic between activations (e.g., fixed access) / Not always assumed to have connectivity. Don't expect to store & forward.	✔	✔	✔	✔	X	X	✔	✔	X
Mobile within a constrained and well-defined space (e.g., in a factory) / Expect to have intermittent connectivity and store & forward.	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Fully mobile (To include: Wearables and Connected Vehicles) / Bursts of connectivity and always store & forward.	✔	X	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔

Compute Stack Layers (architecture classification) - (Provide, Require, or N/A; Add context as needed)

Compute Stack Layers and Cloud Stack Layers

Glossary✔
Compute Stack Layers Akraino Baetyl EdgeX eKuiper Fledge Home Edge Open Horizon Project EVE FDO
APIs ✔ Applications ✔ Firmware Hardware Orchestration OS VM/Containers Provide Provide Provide Provide Provide Provide Require Provide Provide
Applications Deployed Provide Provide Provide Provide N/A Require
Provide
Firmware Update and Configure Provide, OS as a Firmware Require N/A Require N/A N/A
Require
Hardware Provision and Configure Require Require N/A Require Require Require Require Require
Orchestration Require Require Require N/A N/A Provide Require Provide N/A
OS Require Provide Require N/A Require Require Require Provide Require
VM/Containers Require Require, vm is optional Provide Provide Require Require Require Provide Require, vm is optional

Cloud Stack Layers (architecture classification) - (Provide, Require, or N/A; Add context as needed)

Glossary

Cloud Stack Layers	Akraino	Baetyl	EdgeX	eKuiper	Fledge	Home Edge	Open Horizon	Project EVE	FDO
Applications	✔	Yes	Provide (services can live in cloud layer)	Provide	N/A	Provide	Require		Yes
Configuration (drive)	✔	Yes		Provide	N/A	N/A	Provide		Yes
Content (management system)	✔	Yes		Provide	N/A	N/A	Provide		Yes
IaaS	✔	No		N/A	N/A	Provide (at Edge but not cloud)	N/A	Provide (at Edge but not cloud)	No
PaaS	✔	Yes		N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A		No
Physical Infrastructure	✔	No		N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A		No
SaaS	✔	No		N/A	N/A	Provide	N/A		No

Space shortcuts

Page tree

Versions Compared

Old Version 13

New Version Current

Key