Edge
Central
The Open Edge Data Platform
IOTech Edge Central makes it as easy as possible to create, deploy and manage intelligent edge systems, enabling organizations to securely deliver analytics and AI directly where data is generated.
Don’t be constrained to fixed choices when delivering your edge solutions. Choose an open-edge computing platform that gives you the freedom to innovate, scale, and realize key business value by deploying AI, automation, and advanced decision-making capabilities at the edge without dependencies on an individual technology or vendor.
Based on EdgeX Foundry
Based on the Linux Foundation’s EdgeX Foundry, the world’s #1 open-source edge data platform, IOTech Edge Central is designed to maximize openness, ease of use, flexibility, and choice for organizations developing their next generation of industrial edge solutions.
Comprehensive and Independent Edge Platform
IOTech‘s approach is to reduce the need for extensive coding by providing a comprehensive suite of platform services that users can simply configure to address many different use cases, significantly increasing developer productivity, reducing time-to-market, and minimizing development costs.
To meet the diverse and demanding requirements of our industrial customer’s, we design, deliver and support a software platform that provides independence from hardware, operating system, programming language, applications, OT protocols, and cloud technologies.
Latest Features:
Watch IOTech CTO Brad Corrion describe the latest features delivered with Edge Central:
Edge Central Benefits:
Connect and Control
Easy connectivity to southbound OT devices and sensors at the edge. Lots of connectors for many industrial protocols are already available, with easy-to-use tooling to help connect and control the edge. Device SDKs are available in both Go-Lang and C to create more connectors as needed
View the range of device connectors for Edge Central
Data Processing and AI at the Edge
Edge Central aggregates and contextualizes edge data to enable sensor fusion, real-time analytics, and AI-driven decision-making. The platform includes essential data processing services such as scheduling, rules engines, analytics packages, and dashboarding tools.
Advanced services are also available for collecting and managing alarms, alongside a robust edge data historian capable of storing and managing long-term data acquired and generated by the platform.
If you have your own analytics workflows or preferred third-party AI/ML solutions, no problem — Edge Central is designed for seamless integration with external applications, models, and services.
Normalized Alarm Management
IOTech’s Edge Alarm Service allows organizations to monitor, manage and respond to alarms across complex edge environments by providing a standards-based, and technology-agnostic approach to alarm normalization, routing, and control.
Cloud and IT Integration
Effortlessly connect and share your edge data to Cloud and IT systems of your choice.
Edge Central includes built-in support for streaming data to leading cloud platforms such as AWS and Microsoft Azure. Data translations, filtering and compression can be easily configured as part of the streaming process. For advanced or custom use cases, developers can extend functionality by using the northbound Application Services SDK, available in both Go-Lang and Python.
In addition to streaming via standard IT protocols such as MQTT, REST, Kafka, and Sparkplug, Edge Central can also present all aggregated data through a powerful OPC UA server interface, enabling seamless integration with SCADA systems and other industrial applications
Seamless Data Flow to and from the Cloud
Run on any Device
Edge Central is hardware, operating system, and processor independent so you can run it on your choice of edge computing device. Users typically run Edge Central on IoT gateways and edge servers but the Edge Central containers can easily run on any target device
Open, Modular, Extensible
Utilizing a modular and flexible microservices architecture, Edge Central allows complete control of resources and functionality required for each use case. Users can also plug in their own microservices built against our standard APIs and open SDKs
Edge Management Solution
In addition to a comprehensive set of modular platform services, Edge Central includes a full edge management capability to manage your edge deployment easily and at scale. IOTech Edge Manager allows users to provision and monitor edge nodes, configure, orchestrate, monitor, and update your applications and onboard your OT devices and sensors. Edge Manager can support the deployment of different workloads whether they are containers, binaries, or even scripts.
Edge Security
Edge Central delivers enhanced security features tailored for industrial system deployments.
Key services include an API gateway that blocks unauthorized remote access, and a secure edge secret store for protecting passwords and sensitive credentials.
Built with security in mind, Edge Central also supports robust user management and role-based access control (RBAC) to ensure only the right users have access to the right resources.
Community EdgeX Ecosystem
IOTech is a leading member and contributor to the Linux Foundation’s open source EdgeX Foundry project. Edge Central is a commercially supported value-add implementation of EdgeX making a platform you can trust for your demanding edge computing needs. The EdgeX community provides a strong commercial ecosystem for the technology
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 intelligence, and cloud data streaming. The demo describes a Manufacturing “Chemical Tank” simulation, but the principles can be applied to many other industries and edge computing use cases.