Why IOTech
IOTech Edge Central is an open edge data platform that makes industrial data easily accessible and ready for edge AI
The leader in open edge computing
IOTech solves industrial edge complexity to power edge AI.
Trusted by the world’s leading industrial edge providers and users, IOTech Edge Central makes industrial data easily accessible and ready for use by edge AI systems.
Edge Central is the most comprehensive software solution for the edge and includes device connectivity, data processing, and edge management. Our modular and flexible open edge computing platform greatly reduces the time-to-value for edge deployments and protect software investment beyond the hardware lifecycle.
Edge Central is based on EdgeX, the world’s leading open-source data integration platform, and a true, vendor-neutral collaborative ecosystem.
The IOTech Advantage
IOTech Shields Users from Edge Complexity
IOTech’s open edge software platform and management solution shields developers and users from the complexities of the edge. We provide a software foundation that delivers maximum choice, flexibility, and accelerated adoption of your edge solutions.
Open Equals Choice and Flexibility
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 and AI application at the edge.
Ubiquitous Edge Connectivity
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. IOTech connectivity is a configuration versus a programming task and we also provide as standard data cleaning capability as part of the connector!
Delivering Time-Critical Performance
IOTech Edge Central is an open edge data platform that covers the full spectrum of ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ real-time needs. We provide access to “real-time” data e.g., millisecond or even microsecond response times, and in the case of hard real-time, a guaranteed predictable response.
Edge Management at Scale
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 Manager provides application-agnostic node and application management at the Edge.
CPU, Hardware, Operating System and Deployment Flexibility
There is a wide variety of commoditised hardware available to run time-critical edge applications and AI, from industrial server-class platforms, edge gateways, programmable controllers and at the ‘far edge’ highly memory-constrained microcontrollers. IOTech has a software solution for all of these.
EdgeX Ecosystem
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 that provides a common framework for industrial IoT edge computing. Learn more about EdgeX and IOTech’s leadership in the development of the leading open edge data platform on our EdgeX community page.