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PTL- Aaron Williams- beginning 17 Sept 2020

What is the Smart Device Edge-

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As you can tell from the above example, the simple and a more complicated examples are very similar yet different and the Solution Architect will need to work with the customer to determine what is the best course of action based upon many different factors (regulations, safety, internet connectivity, maintenance schedules, physical access to the device, cost, among many others).  The IIoT at the Smart Device Edge family of blueprints is designed to help the solution architect and end user determine what their needs are and how to create solution that works for them.  It is very possible that there is no perfect fit of the blueprints here, but there is most likely a combination of the blueprints will provide a complete solution.  With this in mind the blueprints are designed to be componentized so that they can be separated and combined in many different ways. 

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• computer vision, eg stream video
  • high bandwidth is needed
  • the killer app is to process this at the edge
• machine intelligence, eg structured telemetry
  • many different protocols, 
  • varying amounts of data volume (eg vibration data vs temperature data)

A Baseline Infrastructure

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The basic infrastructure for this family is Smart Edge Device that is connected to some type sensor (Southbound) and the device is able to communicate both Northbound to a Cloud or an on-Prem System.  Most Use Cases will extend this basic diagram to run some type of application in a container or VM. 

The killer apps for this family will applications that can take advantage of the compute power at the device edge.  Two examples would be Computer Vision and AI/MI.  For computer vision applications, a large pipe is needed to stream the video to the edge device, then it can process the video and send responses back to the edge components and/or send a filtered set back to the cloud. Having the ability to do compute at the edge allows for AI/MI at the edge, thus predictions can be created without leaving the device

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Family- IIoT at the Smart Device Edge 

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This is for the Family, Blueprint creators are welcome to join by adding their name. We are starting the election of a PTL 3 Sept, which will end in two weeks (17 Sept).  Anyone interested in becoming PTL just needs to self nominate themselves by putting Y in the correct column.  As per the Akraino Community process and directed by TSC, a blueprint which has only one nominee for Project Technical Lead (PTL) will be the elected lead once at least one committer seconds the nomination after the close of nominations.  If there are two or more, an election will take place.  

PTL- Aaron Williams- 17 September 2020 through 17 September 2021

Contributors: 

Tina Tsou

Jeff Brower