EDGE CENTRAL
The AI-Ready Edge Data Platform
IOTech Edge Central simplifies creating, deploying, and managing intelligent edge solutions, delivering clean, contextualized data directly to AI applications where data is generated
EDGE CENTRAL OVERVIEW
Fuel edge intelligence and power real-time AI at scale
Don’t let fragmented edge systems bottleneck your AI strategies. Edge Central provides an open, vendor-neutral edge computing foundation that gives you the freedom to deploy AI, automation, and advanced decision-making capabilities without lock-in or dependencies on proprietary hardware or cloud vendors.
COMPREHENSIVE PLATFORM
The Platform for Industrial AI Acceleration
Traditional AI initiatives fail when fed poor, un-contextualized data. Edge Central eliminates extensive custom integration and data preparation by offering a configurable suite of platform services. We empower teams to bridge OT protocol gaps, structure data, and fuel AI workloads—significantly increasing developer productivity and accelerating time-to-value for edge intelligence.
Edge Central Core Capabilities
Universal Device Connectivity
Seamlessly acquire real-time data from southbound OT devices, sensors, and legacy machinery. With extensive out-of-the-box device protocol connectors and dedicated Device SDKs in Golang and C, Edge Central creates the stable, reliable data ingestion foundation that edge AI demands.
Edge Central provides easy-to-use connectivity for leading OT protocols including Modbus, OPC UA, BACnet, BLE, CANbus, EtherNet/IP, Siemens S7, MQTT, and many more.
Data Modeling & Historian
Turn raw, inconsistent OT data into a trusted, structured asset. Edge Central normalizes, tags, and contextualizes data from every source into a consistent model. This gives AI models, analytics, and operators a single, high-quality source of truth at the edge. Long-term historical storage keeps data available for trending, analysis, and model training, even when cloud connectivity is limited.
Edge AI & Analytics
Run AI inference and analytics right at the point of action. Edge Central delivers high-quality, contextualized inputs to machine learning models for real-time inference. Execute local rule engines or plug in your custom AI/ML models natively, so decisions happen in milliseconds without the latency, cost, or risk of sending everything to the cloud.
Cloud & AI Integration
Effortlessly stream enriched, compressed edge data to any cloud or AI platform via standard protocols (MQTT, Kafka, REST, Sparkplug, etc.). Your edge operational data can be used to train cloud-based AI models and feed enterprise analytics, without being locked into a single vendor. Built-in OPC UA Server capabilities can also provide real-time data updates to operational and SCADA systems.
Integrated Agentic AI
Bring AI agents directly to your operations. Edge Central lets you run AI agents with the LLM of your choice, giving them secure, governed access to live and historical edge data, alarms, and control functions. Agents can interpret conditions, answer operator questions in natural language, and recommend or trigger actions, turning edge data into intelligent, autonomous operations.
Real-Time Control
Act locally, in real time. Edge Central closes the loop between insight and action by enabling local control logic to respond to events and AI outputs instantly, writing back to devices and systems at the edge. Operations keep running reliably and deterministically, even if connectivity to the cloud is interrupted.
Unified Alarms & Events
Consolidate disparate alarm and event streams across complex, multi-vendor environments. Edge Central provides a technology-agnostic approach to alarm normalization and routing, receiving alarms from every source and delivering them to the right operators, systems, or AI agents so automated remediations can be triggered instantly.
Edge Management at Scale
Centrally manage your entire edge fleet from a single place. Using IOTech Edge Manager, securely deploy, update, and orchestrate containerized AI models, binaries, and platform workloads across thousands of nodes. Edge Central runs on any IoT gateway, IPC, or edge server without hardware vendor lock-in, and protects your IP and sensitive data with built-in security including advanced Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).
OPEN FOUNDATION
Based on EdgeX Foundry
Built on Open Standards for Scalable AI
Based on the Linux Foundation’s EdgeX Foundry, the world’s #1 open-source edge data platform, IOTech Edge Central maximizes openness, flexibility, and architectural control for organizations building next-generation, AI-enabled industrial solutions.
AI-READY FRAMEWORK
The AI-Ready Operational Framework
We simplify the complex stack of edge intelligence into three clear steps:
CONNECT
Ingest data across disparate OT protocols and legacy equipment to establish a single unified source of truth.
MODEL
Normalize, tag, and structure OT data using standard semantics to prepare high-quality feeds for edge or cloud AI models.
ACT
Run low-latency local execution, inference, and real-time control while securely managing models across the edge.
SEE EDGE CENTRAL IN ACTION
Watch the Demo
Watch this short demonstration video to see Edge Central in action. See how it helps simplify key edge computing tasks including data acquisition, edge AI, and cloud data streaming.
The demo describes a Manufacturing “Chemical Tank” simulation, but the principles can be applied to many other industries and edge AI use cases.