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Microservices at the Edge - Best Practices

Microservices at the Edge - Best Practices

January 27, 2020

IoT Edge processing as an architectural component emerged to meet the demands of reducing network bandwidth requirements and lowering response latency. Microservices as a software paradigm evolved to …
The 'S' in IoT stands for Security

The 'S' in IoT stands for Security

January 26, 2020

IoT security isn't rocket surgery, but a race to market has left a proliferation of insecure, unpatchable devices strewn across the internet. Well-established software delivery and security best pract …
IoT Device Regulation Compliance in Industrial Environments

IoT Device Regulation Compliance in Industrial Environments

January 22, 2020

Franco talks about the tasks and obstacles involved for CE/RED compliance testing, relevant for Industrial IoT (IIoT).He talks from his experience of going through compliance testing with his teams wi …
Our Company and the Open Source Community: A Journey from Anxiety to Collaboration

Our Company and the Open Source Community: A Journey from Anxiety to Collaboration

January 21, 2020

Would you like your company to be more open towards the free software community?GARDENA is a company with a lot of experience with gardening tools; experience with software development and interaction …
Lightning Talk: Lilliput-AE: A Candidate to the NIST Lightweight Cryptographic Standardization Process

Lightning Talk: Lilliput-AE: A Candidate to the NIST Lightweight Cryptographic Standardization Process

January 17, 2020

Lilliput-AE is a candidate to the new upcoming NIST Lightweight Cryptographic Standardization Process, that has serious advantages from security and performance point of view. Lilliput-AE performs ver …
Stress Testing and Micro Benchmarking Kernels with Stress-ng

Stress Testing and Micro Benchmarking Kernels with Stress-ng

January 17, 2020

stress-ng is a relatively new kernel stress and micro bench-marking tool with over 200 stress tests designed to comprehensively exercise a wide-range of kernel interfaces and core components. In this …
Writing Your Own Gadget with Zephyr OS

Writing Your Own Gadget with Zephyr OS

January 17, 2020

In this talk the author describes possible ways of connecting IOT devices using embedded boards running Zephyr OS, connected to host PC via USB. In particular, the following sample cases are explained …
Evolving to microservices: SmartThings case study

Evolving to microservices: SmartThings case study

January 16, 2020

Jeff Beck has been on a five-year journey evolving the architecture at SmartThings, moving from one monolith and three supporting services to more than one hundred microservices and expanding from a US-only platform to a worldwide IoT platform. The architecture has been shaped by product and organizational needs. Join Jeff to explore the major architectural eras iterated on the platform.
An Overview of EdgeXFoundry and Where We Stand

An Overview of EdgeXFoundry and Where We Stand

January 13, 2020

EdgeX FoundryTM is a vendor-neutral open source project hosted by The Linux Foundation building a common open framework for IoT edge computing. At the heart of the project is an interoperability frame …
How the Yocto Project Addressed Comcast RDK Scalability Issues

How the Yocto Project Addressed Comcast RDK Scalability Issues

January 12, 2020

The Comcast RDK is a complex Linux software stack powering millions of set-top-boxes. In 2013 the project faced scalability issues with their home grown Linux environment which impacted internal teams …
Running Linux on Constrained IOT Device

Running Linux on Constrained IOT Device

January 10, 2020

It is often assumed that tiny IoT systems are too limited to run Linux, and a small operating system like Zephyr is a better choice. However, using a small OS means tradeoffs on functionality, and som …
Building an Open Source Framework for the Edge

Building an Open Source Framework for the Edge

January 9, 2020

The problem: Widespread fragmentation and the complexity of the current IoT landscape are stalling the growth of the Industrial IoT market and making it difficult for partners to work together. The ov …
Securely Store IOT Edge Data with IPFS and Distributed Ledger

Securely Store IOT Edge Data with IPFS and Distributed Ledger

January 9, 2020

IoT sensor readings are ingested by an edge platform in many different protocol formats. Using EdgeX Foundry (an open source edge platform) this disparity can be normalized into a common representatio …
Distributed ML on Unikernels for IoT

Distributed ML on Unikernels for IoT

January 8, 2020

Machine Learning (ML) has been happening only in Cloud and some inference on Edge. But there's quite few ML happening in IoT where Linux cannot fit. This area is called TinyML. In order to democratize …
How Secure is Your Edge with EdgeX?

How Secure is Your Edge with EdgeX?

January 8, 2020

IoT presents a large attack surface, stemming from the number of connected components, physical distribution, and bugs in hardware and software. In this talk we focus on the Edge, systems close to the …
Blockchain Enabled IoT Edge Computing

Blockchain Enabled IoT Edge Computing

January 7, 2020

The volume of data collected by IoT sensors is very high and requires considerable resources for data processing. Edge processing enables getting the data processed closer to the source. Its not alwa …
Processing 10M samples a second to drive smart maintenance in complex IIoT systems

Processing 10M samples a second to drive smart maintenance in complex IIoT systems

January 7, 2020

Geir Engdahl and Daniel Bergqvist explain how Cognite is developing IIoT smart maintenance systems that can process 10M samples a second from thousands of sensors. You'll explore an architecture designed for high performance, robust streaming sensor data ingest, and cost-effective storage of large volumes of time series data as well as best practices learned along the way.
Provisioning IoT Devices

Provisioning IoT Devices

January 2, 2020

IoT devices need to get configured for Internet access. As they are constrained devices with lack of input peripherals, they require a configurator smartphone for data exchange. The exchanged data mig …
Identity-based Cross-cluster Fabrics - Challenges & Rewards

Identity-based Cross-cluster Fabrics - Challenges & Rewards

December 28, 2019

Cloud-native infrastructures and platforms have radically improved application deployment with one major change still to come - replacing IP addresses with Identity - as defined by applications - for …
Getting an Edge on Your IoT Future

Getting an Edge on Your IoT Future

December 27, 2019

How to remain free and in control while navigating an IoT ecosystem increasingly colored by lock-in from hyper-scale cloud providers? As an official Linux Foundation project, EdgeX Foundry provides a …
Developing Edge with Kubernetes

Developing Edge with Kubernetes

December 13, 2019

While its original intent was to solve cloud-centric architecture challenges, Kubernetes can be used as a platform for developing Edge and IoT applications.The session will take a look at this topic f …
Keynote: The Long Road to IPv4/IPv6 Dual-stack Kubernetes

Keynote: The Long Road to IPv4/IPv6 Dual-stack Kubernetes

December 11, 2019

Prepare yourself - IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack Kubernetes is almost here! In this session, we will share the journey of how this enhancement has progressed over the years and how the community has banded tog …
Intro + Deep Dive: Specialized Network Protocols for IoT+Edge with Kubernetes

Intro + Deep Dive: Specialized Network Protocols for IoT+Edge with Kubernetes

November 19, 2019

This session will survey communication protocols and technologies used in the edge and IoT space. These use cases can call for specialized protocols and transports: -publish subscribe, multicast -prot …
Edgility - 5G Orchestration in Serverless-Edge Cloud-Native Environments

Edgility - 5G Orchestration in Serverless-Edge Cloud-Native Environments

October 30, 2019

Edge computing is becoming the major component in 5G networks. While edge computing provides an u-low-latency solution, it brings with it other challenges. On one hand, edge clouds are small, and thei …
Managing Edge Computing with Serverless

Managing Edge Computing with Serverless

October 22, 2019

Lev Radomislensky will talk about a Kubernetes-based edge solution for retail analytics based on spinning Kubernetes clusters at the edge. The solution relies on a combination of an MQTT broker such a …
Intro + Deep Dive: Kubernetes IoT Edge WG

Intro + Deep Dive: Kubernetes IoT Edge WG

October 20, 2019

Intro and Deep Dive: Edge Computing challenges and solutions with Kubernetes This session will investigate and catalogue challenges encountered when Kubernetes is deployed in Edge and IoT applications …
Keynote: LF Edge: Open Source to Enable 5G, IoT and AI Development

Keynote: LF Edge: Open Source to Enable 5G, IoT and AI Development

October 11, 2019

LF edge is a newly founded open source project in the Linux foundation, which includes several well-known edge projects, such as Arkrino, Edge X, Home Edge, EVE etc. as the founding member of LF edge, …
Integration of Edge and Cloud IoT Platforms

Integration of Edge and Cloud IoT Platforms

October 5, 2019

As network processing functions move towards the edge, it becomes important that IoT middleware enables connectivity, device management and data filtering in the form of IoT platform running most ofte …