Edge implementations
Cloud vendors or equipment manufacturer vendors are developing different solutions based on their own OSs or proposing cloud-agnostic software development kits (SDKs). We will take a closer look at some of these in the upcoming chapters, but in this section, we’ll list the most important edges.
Azure IoT Edge
Azure IoT Edge is the edge solution proposed by Microsoft for Azure IoT. It supports store-and-forward, edge analytics, and several protocol adaptors to translate proprietary protocols or standard protocols to internet protocols. Azure IoT Edge also supports the OPC Server in both its implementations: OPC Classic and OPC UA.
AWS IOT Edge
Greengrass is the new generation of the IoT edge by AWS. AWS supports an SDK to build the AWS edge and extends cloud capabilities to edge devices with Greengrass. This enables them to carry out actions locally, while still using the cloud for management, analytics, and permanent storage. Greengrass supports...