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.
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Functions | Akraino | EdgeX | Glossary | Home Edge | Project EVE |
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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) |
Deployment Type | Akraino | EdgeX | Glossary | Home Edge | Project EVE |
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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 |
Directly applicable Industry/Verticals use cases | Akraino | EdgeX | Glossary | Home Edge | Project EVE |
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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) |
Use Cases | Akraino | EdgeX | Glossary | Home Edge | Project EVE |
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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 | Akraino | EdgeX | Glossary | Home Edge | Project EVE |
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APIs | ✔ | Provide | Provide | ||
Applications | ✔ | Provide | |||
Firmware | ✔ | ||||
Hardware | ✔ | Require | |||
Orchestration | ✔ | ?? | |||
OS | ✔ | Require | |||
VM/Containers | ✔ | Provide | Provide |
Cloud Stack Layers | Akraino | EdgeX | Glossary | Home Edge | Project EVE |
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Applications | ✔ | Provide (services can live in cloud layer) | |||
Configuration (drive) | ✔ | ||||
Content (management system) | ✔ | ||||
IaaS | ✔ | Provide (at Edge but not cloud) | |||
PaaS | ✔ | ||||
Physical Infrastructure | ✔ | ||||
SaaS | ✔ |