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The Industrial Edge has many unique distributed computing and data challenges not found in retail, consumer or other markets. 

Fledge is the Linux Foundation's Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) platform and community architected for and built by industrial users, machine builders, smart sensor suppliers, industrial software suppliers, system integrators and cloud operators.   The Fledge project was seeded by Dianomic, Google, AVEVA/OSIsoft, Teledyne/FLIR and JEA (8th largest utility in the U.S.).    Our community is growing fast with over 60 contributors.   Fledge is also adopted by LF Energy (Fledge Power Project), OSDU and is being evaluated by CESMII.    

Fledge has been deployed in industrial operations since 2019!    Some of our public use cases include:

• JEA - Energy substation monitoring and automation
• RTE  - Energy RTU server gateway (IEC104, IEC61850, TASE 2, OpenADR) 
• General Atomics - Military drone manufacturing
• Neuman Aluminum - Aluminum part manufacturing
• Honda Racing - Digital Twin machine optimizations
• Opus One/UC Davis - Wine production and safety 

We invite you to use and contribute to the project.  And look forward to delivering the Industrial 4.0 vision together.   

Collect, Transform, Integrate - Industrial IoT Fundamentals

Fledge connects to all OT data sources (PLCs, DCS, CNC, robots, sensors, etc) supporting the many legacy, current and emerging protocols, networks and methods found in industrial use.   The data types from these machines goes beyond time-series data including image, vibration, radio metric and more.   

Second, Fledge collects and aggregates this data on the edge.  

Third, Fledge transforms, processes, filters, stores, analyzes, alerts and notifies on the edge.   Applications may be as simple as converting celsius to Fahrenheit or multi-protocol gateway transformations that map data from different schemas/protocols or as complex as ML/AL and computer vision detecting anomalies or optimizing operations from the edge.     

Fourth, Fledge has bi-directional write capability for set-point control.  Using Linux, this control fuction is not intended for RTOS applications.  However, it is suitable for writing PLC instructions or actuator.

Last, Fledge Integrates the data to any/multiple destinations creating a smart secure and scalable OT data fabric from sensors and machines to industrial systems and clouds. 

Industry 4.0 Requires a 4.0 Edge

Fledge -  The Open Source Industry 4.0 Edge Governed by the Linux Foundation

Fledge developers and operators no longer face complexity and fragmentation issues when building their IIoT applications as they gather and process more sensor data to automate and transform business. Fledge’s modern pluggable architecture eliminates the data silos often found in plants, factories and mines.  By using a consistent set of RESTful APIs to develop, manage and secure IIoT applications, Fledge creates a unified,  scalable, manageable and secure OT-IT edge solution.

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