The Making of Edge ComputingAngelo Corsaro, PhDChief Technology OfficerADLINK Technology Inc.angelo.corsaro@adlinktech.com

Edge Computing

Edge/Fog Computing promises to bring the flexibility and productivity of the data-centre to the edge while at the same time addressing the performance, determinism, security and safety requirements characteristic of Industrial IoT (IIoT).

ADLINK VisionBe a leading provider of Edge Industrial IoT platforms, reducing the complexity of building IoT systems. Providing robust and reliable hardware platforms, data connectivity and management solutions, and Industrial-IoT platforms

ADLINK At a Glance

San Jose

Taipei Headquarter

Singapore

Bangalore Shenzhen

ShanghaiBeijing

SeoulTokyo

London

Tel AvivParis

Hengelo Mannheim Munich

Newcastle

7 R&D Centres- Taipei, Taiwan- San Jose, US- ShangHai, China- Mannheim, Germany- Paris, France- New Castle, UK- Hengelo, Netherlands

2 Manufacturing Centres- ShangHai, China- Taipei, Taiwan

17 Sales/Support offices- USA - 1- EMEA - 5- APAC - 6- China - 5

200+ Business Partners-Distributors-Sales Rep.Revenues :

300M CAGA : 15%

Employees : 1,800

Engineers : 650

40 Managerswith 16 Nationality

Participate 7 Standard org.

Premier of Intel ISA ( one of

four)

Research & Development CentersSales / Support OfficesManufacturing Site

ADLINK IIoT Technologies and PlatformsHardware

Ready-to-use intelligent devices

Building Blocks for Intelligent devices

Edge DevicesConnect to sensors/actors

ADLINK Technologies

Ready-to-use intelligent devices

Building Blocks for Intelligent devices

Edge DevicesConnect to sensors/actors

IoT gateways, fog nodes and private cloud modular servers

Gateways & InfrastructureSystem of Systems

ADLINK Technologies

Ready-to-use intelligent devices

Building Blocks for Intelligent devices

Edge DevicesConnect to sensors/actors

Smart Embedded Management Agent

Cloud Connectivity for Monitoring & Management

IIoT platform

IIoT PlatformsConnectivity, Analytics, Monitoring&Management

IoT gateways, fog nodes and private cloud modular servers

Gateways & InfrastructureSystem of Systems

ADLINK Technologies

ADLINK IIoT Technologies and Platforms

Software

ADLINK IIoT Platform

ADLINK IIoT Platform eliminates the technological segregation created by Cloud, Fog/Edge and Mist technologies and abstracts compute, storage and networking end-to-end

ADLINK IIoT Platform

The ADLINK IIoT Platform virtualises resources end-to-end and unifies abstractions

Core TechnologiesData Virtualisation

Data Virtualisation

IoT is about extracting value through the insights derived from the real-time and historical data produced by a cyber-physical system

Data is the currency of IoT

Data Virtualisation

Vortex is a standard-based, efficient, ubiquitous, interoperable, secure and platform independent data virtualisation platform for IoT / IIoT

Virtualised Data Space

Applications can autonomously and

asynchronously read and write data enjoying spatial and temporal decoupling

Standard

I/O Virtualisation

IIoT is characterised by an an incredible variety of I/O technologies

A uniform manner of dealing with I/O is highly desirable

Vortex ConnectLow footprint and high performance connector framework

Composable connectors allow for arbitrary transformations

Designed for extensibility and facilitating the development of custom connector Things

PLC SENSOR …

OPC-UA

PROFINET

Modbus

ETH

ERCAT

CONNECTOR FRAMEWORK

AMQP

MQTT

DDS

OPC-UA

REST

DDS …

…

DDS DDS

Platform Management

IIoT is characterised by an an incredible variety of I/O technologies

A uniform manner of dealing with I/O is highly desirable

SEMA Cloud

SEMA Cloud extends ADLINK’s SEMA technology to provide ubiquitous monitoring and management of machinery and HW equipment

Edge Analytics

Edge Analytics are a common use case in Brown-Field systems

Our first platform offering focuses on this area

Vortex Edge Analytics PlatformA platform to turn IIoT data into insights and actions at the edge through the rapid deployment of predictive analytics

Platform Overview

Applicability

Platform OverviewBuilding Blocks

Vortex Edge PMQ Industrial Appliance

ADLINK extremely ruggedised SETO edge server enhanced with IBM analytics technology and preconfigured to support predictive maintenance applications

Vortex Edge PMQ Cognitive Gateway

A family of industrial computers preconfigured to support data acquisition and scoring in harsh environments

Platform OverviewIn Action

Step 1: Data Collection

Step 2: Data Analysis / Modeling

Step 3: Model Synthesis

Step 4: Model Deployment

Online Model Refinement

The model is continuously refined based on

“experience”

Real-time Insights

Deployment Flexibility

Use Cases

AutonomousVehicles

coordination and collaboration among fleets of fast moving autonomous

vehicles

intermittent connectivity

dynamic vehicles pairing

RoboticsADLINK Technologies used extensively to control robots

Smart-GridADLINK IIoT technologies

used to digitalise and integrate data

Smart FactoryADLINK IIoT technologies used to digitalise, integrate and make sense of data

Integrated Modular Vetronics Training & Simulation Systems Naval Combat Systems

Air Traffic Control & Management Unmanned Air Vehicles Aerospace Applications

Concluding RemarksADLINK provides a rich technology ecosystem enabling and accelerating the adoption of Edge and Fog Computing

ADLINK IIoT SW/HW platform provides a perfect foundation for green-field as well as brown field IIoT systems development

THANKS！Leading EDGE COMPUTING