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EdgeX Foundry Announces Major Milestone with First "Barcelona" ReleaseBARCELONA, Spain and SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- EdgeX Foundry, an open source project building a common interoperability framework to facilitate an ecosystem for Internet of Things (IoT) edge computing, today announced that the first major code release, dubbed "Barcelona", will be available later this month. Barcelona is EdgeX Foundry's first code release since the project launched in April 2017 and represents a collaborative effort by more than 60 member organizations to build out and support an ecosystem for Industrial IoT (IIoT) solutions. It is part of an established roadmap for a product-quality open source foundation that enables interoperable commercial differentiation. EdgeX demonstrations will be on display at IoT Solutions World Congress this week. The complexity of the current IoT landscape and the wide variety of components available are creating paralysis among businesses looking to deploy IIoT solutions. EdgeX Foundry is a project of The Linux Foundation that is building an open interoperability framework hosted within a full hardware- and OS-agnostic reference software platform to enable an ecosystem of plug-and-play components that unifies the marketplace and accelerates the deployment of IoT solutions. "We believe that EdgeX will radically change how businesses develop and deploy IIoT solutions, and we are excited to see the community rally together to support it," said Philip DesAutels, senior director of IoT at The Linux Foundation. "Barcelona is a significant milestone that showcases the commercial viability of EdgeX and the impact that it will have on the global Industrial IoT landscape." Barcelona Features
Several EdgeX Foundry members have already started to provide commercial solutions based on EdgeX, with others folding it into their product roadmaps. Establishment of Bi-Annual Release Roadmap EdgeX Foundry's next major release, "California", is targeted for Spring 2018. California will be a key step in EdgeX Foundry's commitment to evolve the framework to support the requirements for deployment in business-critical IIoT applications. In addition to general improvements, planned features for the California release include baseline APIs and reference implementations for security and manageability value-add. Additional roadmap items include support for more protocols such as OPC-UA, an optional high-performance message bus for intercommunication between microservices and further extensions for fog computing. IoT Solutions World Congress Other EdgeX Foundry members will also have EdgeX on display in their own booths, including Analog Devices, Bayshore Networks, Device Authority, EnOcean Alliance, FogHorn and Opto 22. Ecosystem Growth The growing EdgeX community broadly represents the IoT landscape with members providing products and services supporting analytics, visualization, sensors, security, and manageability, among others. Last month, Samsung joined as a Platinum member to expand the open source development of its IIoT edge platform, and today, EdgeX Foundry announces Thales eSecurity, a leader in advanced data security solutions and services, has joined as a Silver member. "The Industrial Internet of Things needs consistent and high quality security standards in order to thrive," said Jon Greater, chief technology officer at Thales eSecurity. "We are glad to be deepening our involvement with the Linux Foundation by joining EdgeX Foundry to work openly with industry partners to create a reliable and security-capable stack for IoT devices." For more information and to learn how to get involved, please visit the following EdgeX Foundry resources: About EdgeX Foundry About The Linux Foundation The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see its trademark usage page: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Media Inquiries: View original content with multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/edgex-foundry-announces-major-milestone-with-first-barcelona-release-300529604.html SOURCE EdgeX Foundry |