Why IOTech
The open software solution for developing, deploying and managing Industrial Edge applications at scale
The "Easy Button" for the edge
IOTech’s products are used and embedded by leading OEMs as core parts of their wider solution offerings.
IOTech’s edge software products are built on open technology as used by thousands of users worldwide. The products allow you to develop, deploy and manage any AI workloads, third-party Edge applications, or your own business logic on any Internet of Things (IoT) edge node with complete deployment flexibility. Our software solutions cover the full spectrum of secure hard and soft real-time Edge Computing, maximize user choice and provide a software foundation for effective collaboration across multiple vertical markets at the IoT Edge.
The IOTech Advantage
- IOTech Shields Users from Edge Complexity
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IOTech’s ‘open’ software Edge platforms and management solutions “shield” developers and users from these complexities, a software foundation delivering maximum user choice, flexibility, and accelerated adoption of your Edge solutions
- Open Equals Choice and Flexibility
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To maximize user choice all IOTech’s Edge products are ‘open’, which at a minimum, means our edge software solutions are silicon, hardware, operating system, software application and Cloud agnostic. We also have wherever possible adopted open standards for example standard APIs that enable “plug and play” of any software application at the edge.
- Ubiquitous Edge Connectivity
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The edge is where the IT computer meets the OT ‘thing’ and there is a multitude of Southbound ‘connectivity’ protocols which work at or close to real-time. We are making connectivity a configuration versus a programming task and we also provide as standard data cleaning capability as part of the connector!
- Delivering Time-Critical Performance
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Our Edge software platforms Edge Xpert and Xrt cover the full spectrum of IOT Edge ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ real-time needs for all types of applications users will want to run at the edge for which we provide access to “real-time” data e.g., millisecond or even microsecond response times, and in the case of hard real-time predictable response.
- Edge Management at Scale
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Edge systems can be both very large-scale and highly distributed. This makes their smooth management both critical and difficult. While today’s enterprise management and deployment systems work very well in Enterprise / Cloud environments, they are not well-suited to edge deployments. IOTech’s Edge Builder provides application-agnostic node and application management at the Edge.
- CPU, Hardware, Operating System and Deployment Flexibility
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There is a wide variety of commoditised hardware available to run time-critical edge applications, from industrial server-class platforms, Edge Gateways, Programmable Controllers and at the ‘far Edge’ highly memory-constrained microcontrollers.
- EdgeX Eco-system
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IOTech supports LF Edge, the premier open source ecosystem for the edge; LF edge’s leading project is EdgeX foundry – a vendor-neutral open software platform hosted by the Linux Foundation that provides a common framework for industrial IoT edge computing.