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LF Edge, an umbrella organization within the Linux Foundation that has created an open, interoperable framework for edge computing independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system, announced the addition of four new projects into the LF Edge umbrella: EdgeLake, InfiniEdgeAI, InstantX, and OpenBao. The four projects join LF Edge’s existing roster of 12 projects covering the open edge stack across telecommunications, IoT, Industrial, transportation, and more: Akraino, EdgeX Foundry, Fledge, EVE, FIDO Device Onboard, Open Horizon, State of the Edge Report, Alvarium, Beatyl, eKuiper, NanoMQ, and Nexoedge.
EdgeLake provides a decentralized network for edge computing. An EdgeLake Network makes distributed edge nodes operate as a single machine that seamlessly captures, stores, and manages data at its source (allowing data to remain in-place), while providing a complete and unified view of the data. EdgeLake transforms the distributed edge to a Virtual and Unified Data-Lake, allowing companies to extract real-time insight from their edge data (using SQL). EdgeLake provides a high degree of automation in managing data at the edge, provides open and standard interfaces to the data, and eliminates the dependency on centralizing the data.
InfiniEdge AI will create a unified, open platform to simplify the deployment of efficient, low-latency AI models on resource-constrained edge devices. By optimizing AI models for edge devices, AI Edge enables efficient real-time applications that operate independently of central servers. This approach not only reduces data traffic but also significantly enhances user privacy and security.
OpenBao is an identity-based secrets and encryption management system. It exists to maintain and improve a software solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data including secrets, certificates, and keys. The OpenBao community will provide this software under an OSI-approved open-source license, led by a community run under open governance principles.
InstantX, a forthcoming new project with initial code seeded by Vodafone Business, is a cloud and edge cloud platform to exchange and distribute data in real-time between users in a certain geography through “far-edge” computing power. It solves the problem of asynchronous and instant data exchange across clients in the same region while offering that data for off-line processing and self-learning to derive further added values.
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