Cloud computing and big data are the core of Industry 4.0 and digital transformation. With businesses keen on leveraging the exponential volume of sensor data for actionable insights, they face an undesirable situation of cloud latency and network overload due to the heavy reliance on cloud. The traditional architectures are unable to cope with the modern demands. It is critical to optimize the existing communications architectures and the associated security aspects. Driven by the unsustainable reliance on cloud for storing and processing OT data, it’s no surprise that end users, OEMS and system integrators are pushing for improved edge capabilities.
One of the big enablers for industrial edge computing is the
increase in the compute power of the low footprint hardware. The
miniaturization of SoC chips as well as their increased computing power has accelerated
the implementation of analytics and real-time processing in the edge.
Utthunga offers state of the art Smart Enterprise Suite (SE SuiteTM )-Edge Stack for easy integration and customization for varied use cases. It is a robust accelerator, already is used by several OEMs globally. Our expertise in edge stack development goes beyond containerized and modular development. It extends to implementing solutions that meets your industry-specific, cyber security, scalability, and subscription needs.
Utthunga’s SE SuiteTM – Edge Stack
The development of a customizable edge computing platform for deploying and managing edge IIoT systems is a complex process. Utthunga offers a ready-to-deploy and pre-tested edge framework that makes this development process easy. It helps accelerate your edge application development life cycle right from programming edge intelligence to building your application solutions for collection, edge provisioning, edge orchestrations, deployment, and upgrade of edge nodes.
Figure: Edge IIoT Proliferation
Key Aspects of Utthunga’s SE SuiteTM-Edge Stack
SE SuiteTM -Edge Stack ’s IoT edge architecture supports industrial edge Docker Containers with pre-built modules. The cloud agnostic accelerator acts as a gateway for connecting your on premise, cloud or industrial edge assets with cloud based IIoT applications.
Data Acquisition and Delivery
Utthunga’s SE SuiteTM -Edge Stack supports various industry protocols like Modbus, OPC, NMEA, and other open and proprietary protocols. We can readily implement both custom and new communication protocols on demand. This enables real-time aggregation, integration and structuring of the edge data to provide a single and unified view of the edge data. Designed for flexibility and extensibility for multiple edge devices, it supports:
Downlink physical interfaces: RS232, RS485, Ethernet, AI, DI, and USB
Delivers data over OPC UA, MQTT, XML/JSON over web services
Uplink interfaces: Ethernet, 3G, 4G, etc.
Security
SE SuiteTM -Edge Stack offers built-in security features through Docker edge containers that make it difficult for any single attack to take down the entire network. This software containerization and isolation of other processes and applications limits the effect of a vulnerability to that particular container. Data protection is ensured through regular OTA transmission of security updates.
Provides secure posting of data to the IIoT portals
Secure identification and authentication using TPM
Secure data transmission using Open SSL/TLS 1.2
Intelligent Edge Analytics
The framework delivers edge analytics in real-time and in-situ for data collected from smart sensors and connected devices. Storing and preparing the data, training, and processing of the algorithmic models are essential to transform the raw data into insights. The local intelligence and automation ensures better decisions for:
Real-time asset health monitoring
Perform edge/contextual analytics
Alerts and notifications based on OT data
Anomaly detection, predictive maintenance and more
Management
The accelerator assists the edge update management system where all modules are secured with regular updates OTA transmissions. The edge portal, i.e., SE SuiteTM -EDM communicates with the IIoT device manager for visualization of the overall edge health monitoring, performance, operation, connectivity, maintenance and security as part of the larger inter-connected IIoT ecosystem.
Enhanced control management: Rule-based classification and alarms configuration
Data & Redundancy managementmodules: To sync and control data pileup at the edge
Network management module: To manage device connectivity (offline or with intermittent connections)
Web Portal: HMI for data visualization and easy viewing of data of the Edge device
SE SuiteTM -EDM : The IIoT Edge Device Manager manages your distributed edge infrastructure to provision and maintain the edge devices remotely and effectively. For more details on automated device registration/updates/upgrades of edge devices, visit our SE SuiteTM – EDM page.
Minimal installation and uninstall process
Licensing
Perpetual Node Licensing – Binary
Subscription Node Licensing – Binary
Source Code Licensing
SE SuiteTM-Edge StackTechnical Features
Supported Platform:
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS server Debian 9 and above
Value Proposition of Utthunga’s SE SuiteTM-Edge Stack
Give your business the edge advantage for improved operational efficiency, security, connectivity, visualization and edge analytics to act on real-time edge data.
Benefits of Utthunga’s SE SuiteTM-Edge Stack
Edge computing is complementary to the traditional centralized approach of cloud computing. With our edge platform stack, you not only reduce network traffic, but also leverage your edge intelligence locally. The edge solutions built on top of our edge stack provide the required connectivity and quality of service needed by our customers operating in a variety of industrial sectors.
A Dependable Partner for the Future
The IIoT edge proliferation is creating a paradigm shift in business thinking and an industrial infrastructure overhaul. Possessing a keen insight on the edge IoT device landscape, our customizable SE SuiteTM -Edge Stack helps industries accelerate their IIoT journey with a clear-cut roadmap for the entire device development life cycle.
With our platform, your edge devices will never be obsolete as our sustenance efforts ensure continuous maintenance and upgrade of the edge stack. Our skilled engineers leverage the latest technologies and tools to ensure your edge devices stay relevant in the changing cloud, security and other industrial dynamics.
Some of the upcoming features of SE SuiteTM -Edge Stack that provides the competitive edge to drive your business growth are:
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