SE Suite - Edge Stack

Facilitating rapid, near real-time analysis and response at the edge

Cloud and Edge Computing complement Each Other

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 (SE Suite^®) – 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 Suite^® – 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 Suite^® -Edge Stack

SE Suite-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 Suite^®– Edge Stacks upports 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 Suite^®– 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 and OTA transmissions. The edge portal, i.e., SE Suite-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 interconnected 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 Suite^TM -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 Suite^TM – EDM page.
Minimal installation and uninstall process

Enhanced Control Management: Rule-based classification and alarms configuration
Data & Redundancy Management Modules: 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 Suite – EDM^®: The IIoT Edge Device Manager manages your distributed edge infrastructure to provision and maintains the edge devices remotely and effectively. For more details on automated device registration/updates/upgrades of edge devices, visit our SE Suite – EDM^®page.
Minimal installation and un-install process

Compliance and Certification Support for CE, FCC, UL, ATEX, etc.

Licensing

Perpetual Node Licensing – Binary
Subscription Node Licensing – Binary
Source Code Licensing

SE Suite ^®– Edge Stack Technical Features

Supported Platform: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS server Debian 9 and above.
Minimum Hardware Requirement: 2 GHz dual core processor 4 GB RAM 8 GB hard-drive space.

Figure: Utthunga’s SE Suite-Edge Stack

Value Proposition of Utthunga’s SE Suite^®– 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 Suite^®– 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 into the edge IoT device landscape, our customizable SE Suite^®– Edge Stack helps industries accelerate their IIoT journey with a clear-cut roadmap for the entire device development lifecycle.

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 Suite^®– Edge Stack that provide the competitive edge to drive your business growth are: