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Integrated Edge Cloud(IEC) is an Akraino approved blueprint family and part of Akraino Edge Stack, which intends to develop a fully integrated edge infrastructure solution, and the project is completely focused on Edge Computing. This open-source software stack provides critical infrastructure to enable high performance, reduce latency, improve availability, lower operational overhead, provide scalability, address security needs, and improve fault management. The IEC project will address multiple edge use cases and industry, not just the Telco Industry. IEC intends to develop solution and support of carrier, provider, and the IoT networks.  

IEC Type 4 is focused on AR VR applications on the edge.  In general, the architecture consists of three layers:  Iaas(IEC Type2), PaaS(Tars), SaaS(AR/VR Application).

Sponsor Companies

Tencent, Arm, HTC, IBM, MobiledgeX, Visby, UC Irvine, Juniper, PSU

Use Cases


In general, there are multiple use cases for AR VR itemized below.  For Release 2, we focus on building the infrastructure and virtual classroom application (Highlighted in dark purple color).

Virtual Classroom is a basic app that allows you to live a virtual reality experience simulating a classroom with teachers and students.

UseCases

Value Proposition

Operation Guidance ​

Predict the next step for the operations(like assembling Lego blocks, cooking sandwiches, etc) and help people to achieve a goal. 

Virtual Classroom 

Simulating a virtual classroom,  ​which improves online education experiences for the teachers and students.

Sports Live

Augment and simulate the sports live, which gives the audiences an amazing immersive watching experience.  

Gaming

Augment and simulate the game scenario, let players enjoy an immersive game world.  ​







Leader's Statements

" Open Source is Tencent's core strategy. Tencent, as a platinum member and board of Linux Foundation, continuously promotes network innovation from application perspectives. We believe that application-drive-network will bring tremendous benefits to our customers and stakeholders. After the Tars project in 2018 and recent Akraino blueprints, Tencent will contribute new open-source Foundation and projects in the future. Welcome more Linux member companies get involved!"  

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