IEC Type 4 is an Akraino approved blueprint and part of Akraino Edge Stack. The project is focused on AR VR applications running on edge.
In general, the architecture consists of three layers: Iaas(IEC), PaaS(Tars), SaaS(AR/VR Application).
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. |
After successfully deploy the virtual classroom application, the following virtual classroom is waiting for you. Enjoy!
Overall Architecture
The whole architecture, shown below, consists of two parts: the front end and the backend.
- For the front end, the minimal requirements are two clients, one for the teacher and the other one for the student. The client device could be a cellphone, tablets, wearable devices，personal computers, etc. The client collects information from the real world and transfers the data to the backend for calculation. Beyond data transfer and calculation, render is another function running on the front end client-side.
- For the backend, we deploy the backend in two virtual machines in the Cloud.
- To make the VR backend work well, we deploy IEC in the IaaS Layer, Tars framework in PaaS Layer, Virtual Classroom Backend in SaaS Layer.
- To make CI/CD available, we deploy Jenkins Master in one Virtual Machine. The Jenkins master issues command to triger the script run on the dedicated VM.
For more information about Tars, refer to the following documents:
TARS_Introduction_20191205 (1).pdf
For more information about IEC, refer to the following documents:
三个优化点：
1） 高性能的RPC协议
2） Tars轻量化裁剪
3）IEC+Tars
Main Progresses for Release 2
Release 2 is the first release for IEC Type 4. So everything is new.
Build Of Materials (BOM) / Hardware requirements
For R2, we deploy IEC in Tencent Cloud for Release. The detailed hardware is itemized below:
CPU+Memory | Drive | Deployment |
4Core * 16G | 50G | Jenkins Master |
4Core * 16G | 50G | Jenkins Slave + Virtual Classroom Backend + Tars + IEC |