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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.


Last Updated:

  • Akraino (May 16, 2019)
  • EdgeX (April 19, 2019)
  • Glossary
  • Home Edge
  • Project EVE (May 22, 2019)

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

FunctionsAkrainoEdgeXGlossaryHome EdgeProject EVE
APIs✔Provide

Provide
Cloud Connectivity✔Provide

Provide
Container Runtime & Orchestration✔Consume?? - need to split?
Provide for Edge Container
Data Governance




Data Models✔
?? - how to split
Provide for Edge Container (not app data)
Device Connectivity✔Provide

Provide (incl LTE, WiFi, serial)
Filters/Pre-processing✔Provide


Logging✔Provide

Provide for its own runtime
Management UI✔Facilitate

Provide for its own runtime
Messaging & Events✔Provide


Notifications & Alerts✔Provide


Security✔Provide

Provide
Storage✔Provide

Provide (local virtual disks)

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

Deployment TypeAkrainoEdgeXGlossaryHome EdgeProject EVE
Customer Devices (Edge Nodes)✔Support

Support
Customer Premises (DC and Edge Gateways)✔Support

Support
Telco Network Edge (MEC and Far-MEC)✔Possible

Possible
Telco CO & Regional✔



Cloud Edge & CDNs✔Possible


Public Cloud✔Possible


Private Cloud✔Possible


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

Directly applicable Industry/Verticals use casesAkrainoEdgeXGlossaryHome EdgeProject EVE
Automotive / Connected Car✔



Chemicals
✔


Facilities / Building automation
✔

✔
Consumer✔✔


Manufacturing✔✔

✔
Metal & Mining
✔


Oil & Gas✔✔

✔
Pharma✔✔


Health Care




Power & Utilities✔✔

✔
Pulp & Paper
✔


Telco Operators✔



Telco/Communications Service Provider (Network Equipment Provider)✔



Transportation (asset tracking)✔✔


Supply Chain
✔


Preventative Maintenance
✔


Water Utilities
✔

✔
Security / Surveillance
 ✔

✔
Retail / Commerce (physical point of sale with customers)
 ✔

✔
Other - Please add if not listed above (please notify add-subgroup-email when you add one)




Deployments (static v dynamic, connectivity, physical placement)

Use CasesAkrainoEdgeXGlossaryHome EdgeProject EVE
Fixed placement edge constellations (edge compute nodes in a relatively permanent location)✔✔

✔
Gateways (to Cloud, to other placements)✔✔

✔
Mobile deployments, static services, intermittent connectivity✔✔

✔
NFV Infrastructure✔



On-demand events✔



Wearables✔



Compute Stack Layers and Cloud Stack Layers (architecture classification)

Compute Stack LayersAkrainoEdgeXGlossaryHome EdgeProject EVE
APIs✔Provide

Provide
Applications✔Provide


Firmware✔



Hardware✔Require


Orchestration✔


??
OS✔Require


VM/Containers✔Provide

Provide
Cloud Stack LayersAkrainoEdgeXGlossaryHome EdgeProject EVE
Applications✔Provide (services can live in cloud layer)


Configuration (drive)✔



Content (management system)✔



IaaS✔


Provide (at Edge but not cloud)
PaaS✔



Physical Infrastructure✔



SaaS✔



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