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.
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Functions | Akraino | EdgeX | FogLAMP | Home Edge | Project EVE |
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APIs | Provide | Provide | Provide, Consume, Facilitate - Microcontroller Example - South Microservice (esp8266) | Provide | |
Cloud Connectivity | Provide | Provide | Provide, Consume and Facilitate - North repos, GCP, OSI-OMF | Provide | |
Container Runtime & Orchestration | Provide | Consume | Consume - (debian, rpm, docker, Project Eve) | Provide for Edge Container | |
Data Governance | NA | Provide and Facilitate - Auditing logs and asset tracking. | |||
Data Models | Provide | Provide, Consume and Facilitate | Provide for Edge Container (not app data) | ||
Device Connectivity | Provide | Provide | Provide, Consume and Facilitate | Provide (incl LTE, WiFi, serial) | |
Filters/Pre-processing | Provide | Provide | Provide and Facilitate | ||
Logging | Provide | Provide | Consume | Provide for its own runtime | |
Management UI | Provide | Facilitate | Provide, Consume and Facilitate | Provide for its own runtime | |
Messaging & Events | Provide | Provide | Provide, Consume and Facilitate | ||
Notifications & Alerts | Provide | Provide | Provide, Consume and Facilitate | ||
Security | Provide | Provide | Provide, Consume and Facilitate | Provide | |
Storage | Provide | Provide | Provide, Consume and Facilitate - Buffering | Provide (local virtual disks) |
Deployment Type | Akraino | EdgeX | FogLAMP | Home Edge | Project EVE |
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Customer Devices (Edge Nodes) | Support | Support | Support | Support | |
Customer Premises (DC and Edge Gateways) | Support | Support | Support | Support | |
Telco Network Edge (MEC and Far-MEC) | Support | Possible | Possible | Possible | |
Telco CO & Regional | Support | Possible | |||
Cloud Edge & CDNs | Support | Possible | Possible | ||
Public Cloud | Support | Possible | N/A | ||
Private Cloud | Support | Possible | N/A |
Directly applicable Industry/Verticals use cases | Akraino | EdgeX | FogLAMP | Home Edge | Project EVE |
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Automotive / Connected Car | ✔ | X | |||
Chemicals | ✔ | ✔ | |||
Facilities / Building automation | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
Consumer | ✔ | ✔ | X | ||
Manufacturing | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ - Production deployments | ✔ | |
Metal & Mining | ✔ | ✔ - PoCs | |||
Oil & Gas | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ - PoCs | ✔ | |
Pharma | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ - PoCs | ||
Health Care | X | ||||
Power & Utilities | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ - Production deployments | ✔ | |
Pulp & Paper | ✔ | ✔ | |||
Telco Operators | ✔ | X | |||
Telco/Communications Service Provider (Network Equipment Provider) | ✔ | X | |||
Transportation (asset tracking) | ✔ | ✔ | X | ||
Supply Chain | ✔ | X | |||
Preventative Maintenance | ✔ | ✔ - Production deployments (Not a vertical) | |||
Water Utilities | ✔ | ✔ - PoCs | ✔ | ||
Security / Surveillance | ✔ | X | ✔ | ||
Retail / Commerce (physical point of sale with customers) | ✔ | X | ✔ | ||
Other - Please add if not listed above (please notify TAC-subgroup@lists.lfedge.org when you add one) |
Use Cases | Akraino | EdgeX | FogLAMP | Home Edge | Project EVE |
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Gateways (to Cloud, to other placements) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
NFV Infrastructure | ✔ | X | |||
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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 | ✔ | |
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. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Compute Stack Layers | Akraino | EdgeX | FogLAMP | Home Edge | Project EVE |
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APIs | Provide | Provide | Provide | ||
Applications | Deployed | Provide | |||
Firmware | Update and Configure | ||||
Hardware | Provision and Configure | Require | Require | ||
Orchestration | Require | Provide | |||
OS | Require | Require | Provide | ||
VM/Containers | Require | Provide | Provide |
Cloud Stack Layers | Akraino | EdgeX | FogLAMP | 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 | ✔ |