EdgeX Foundry develops by Linux Foundation to standardise IoT

The Linux Foundation, along with 50 other companies, is all set to standardise the Internet of Things (IoT) with its EdgeX Foundry. The new project unifies the marketplace around a new common open framework and builds an ecosystem of companies with interoperable plug-and-play components.

Security has been a major issue with all IoT projects. The Linux Foundation-backed EdgeX Foundry aims to secure the experience by standardizing the IoT edge computing model. The new move also eases the growing concern across the industry that IoT has been fragmented and suffers from slower growth due to the lack of a common framework.

“EdgeX Foundry is aligning market leaders around a common framework, which will drive IoT adoption and enable businesses to focus on developing innovative use cases that impact the bottom line,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director, The Linux Foundation.

The EdgeX development is expected to solve the complexity caused by IoT’s  wide components range by simplifying the creation of IoT edge solutions. Using interoperable plug-and-play components, the framework will ease IoT product or solution creation for developers. The built-in components can run on any hardware or operating system.

 The interoperability between connected devices, services and applications will simplify the creation of IoT projects. Moreover, the open source will give a dynamic nature to the projects, letting end customers adapt to changing business needs.

Dell is helping EdgeX Foundry with early-stage FUSE source code under Apache 2.0. The FUSE project is a layer builder between messaging protocols used by sensor networks and cloud server layers.

Organisations like Advanced Micro Devices, Bayshore Networks, Linaro, Dell,
Canonical, VMware and NetFoundry are the founding members of the EdgeX Foundry