EdgeX Foundry Announces First Major Code Release, Dubbed “Barcelona”

EdgeX Foundry, an open source project building a common interoperability framework to facilitate an ecosystem for Internet of Things (IoT) edge computing, announced that the first major code release, dubbed “Barcelona”, will be available later this month. Barcelona is EdgeX Foundry’s first code release since the project launched in April 2017 and represents a collaborative effort by more than 60 member organizations to build out and support an ecosystem for Industrial IoT (IIoT) solutions. It is part of an established roadmap for a product-quality open source foundation that enables interoperable commercial differentiation. EdgeX demonstrations will be on display at IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona, Spain on October 3 -5, 2017.

EdgeX Foundry is a project of The Linux Foundation that is building an open interoperability framework hosted within a full hardware- and OS-agnostic reference software platform to enable an ecosystem of plug-and-play components that unifies the marketplace and accelerates the deployment of IoT solutions.

Barcelona Features
The Barcelona code release represents the first major milestone on EdgeX Foundry’s technical roadmap. Key features for this release include:

• Stabilization of key APIs

• Better code quality, fit and finish

• More than double the test coverage across EdgeX microservices

• Addition of reference Device Services supporting BACNet, Modbus, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), MQTT, SNMP and Fischertechnik

• Extra “north side” Export Service interfaces that provide connectors to Azure IoT Suite and Google IoT Core as well as support for connections via MQTTS and HTTPS

• Progress towards the definition of unified APIs for security and system management

   

Several EdgeX Foundry members have already started to provide commercial solutions based on EdgeX, with others folding it into their product roadmaps.