EdgeX Foundry’s ‘Edinburgh’ v1 version ready to go “live”

EdgeX Foundry Edinburgh
EdgeX Foundry, an open source interoperable framework for edge IoT computing, is all set to make “live” its 1st version of product, ‘Edinburg’. This comes after four iterations of code development. It has been built with the aim of having consistency and inter-operability in projects, standards groups, and industry alliances across the Internet of Things (IoT) spectrum.

Calling it a milestone, the company said in its official blog that the release of EdgeX Foundry Edinburgh (Version 1.0) represented “a significant milestone” in EdgeX development.

It is the first major release that signals EdgeX’s fitness as an Open IoT Edge Computing Software platform for real-world applications backed by a global partner ecosystem.

Work on the project has been on for the last two years, including development and testing. The team is optimistic that the launch of v1 would now lead to “an explosion” of EdgeX use in IoT/edge deployments.

We have already seen evidence of this in the months leading up to the formal release.  EdgeX is now being used as the base platform of a multi-billion-dollar global system integrator while at the same time being used by a local ice-cream manufacturer in Sri Lanka. – EdgeX

There are now over 100 unique contributors to the project. Between this past April and May alone, EdgeX developer downloads from the project GitHub jumped 80 per cent from 2500 to 4500 per month.

The Edinburgh release, along with being version 1.0, includes a lot of new features and improvements underneath the covers.

With the Edinburgh release, the new application services are now available to use as replacements services to the export services for getting EdgeX data to consuming client systems. These services are created one-per-client and so can be as small or as big as they need to be without impact to the overall system. It will, when completely functional equivalents, allow EdgeX to “retire the export services in a future release.”

Image Credit: EdgeX

 

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