IoT & Edge

IoT has been spreading like wildfire: millions of small devices have been gathering an increasing amount of data to be computed to centralized data centers. Until now. That amount of data has become so massive to push networks to the limit.
Edge computing aims to solve this issue by processing the data close to where it is produced. This distributes data centers, moving them to the edge of the network and creating clusters of embedded devices. However, distributed computation opens up to a number of novel design, deployment, and communication challenges.

Experience level:

Beginner

IoT & Edge

High-performance injestion of industrial production data

Christofer Dutz (Apache Software Foundation)

The entire Open-Source world is currently buzzing with activity towards doing amazing things with the data modern industry systems produce. Unfortunately getting access to this data is an absolutely non-trivial task. While there is currently a lot of activity regarding OPC-UA and MQTT, however do all of these usually require retrofitting existing machinery.

Experience level:

Intermediate

IoT & Edge

How Open Source is driving the Industrial Digital Twin with de-facto standards

Thiago Weber Martins (SAP SE)

Orthodoxos Kipouridis (SAP SE)

Imagine robots communicating and acting autonomously to manufacture products individualized according to your needs? As some would call it science fiction, the initiatives around Industry 4.0 aims at bringing it into reality. For that, assets and production facilities must be interoperable and flexible. It is no surprise that Open Source plays an essential role to establish the necessary de-facto standards (Asset Administration Shell) and drive the adoption of new technologies (e.g., Digital Twin).

Experience level:

Beginner

IoT & Edge

Events as First-class Citizens at the Edge - A Case Study

Matteo Di Pirro (Kynetics)

Nicola La Gloria (Kynetics)

Despite the large adoption of event sourcing in microservices and distributed systems in general, most of the time it is applied only to implement a log of the changes to a particular (and sometimes isolated) part of the system. In this talk, we'll explore the true potential of this pattern and see how far we can take advantage of events in our applications.

Experience level:

Beginner

IoT & Edge

Quick-start IoT Projects with Eclipse Thingweb & EdiTDor

Christian Glomb (Siemens AG)

The W3C Web of Things (WoT) is a standardization approach for a convergence layer on top of existing IoT architectures describing connectivity, security, and semantics of the underlying devices or services via its central element called Thing Description (TD).

Eclipse thingweb.node-wot is a reference implementation for WoT allowing to connect existing devices or services via well-known protocols like http, MQTT, CoAP, or OPC-UA and lifting a hetereogenous IoT landscape to a common abstraction layer where re-usable applications can be easily developed and deployed.

Experience level:

Beginner

IoT & Edge

Developing IoT applications with Eclipse Theia and VSCode extension on the cloud with ESP-IDF

Brian Ignacio (Espressif Systems)

Kondal Kolipaka (Espressif Systems)

Ivan Grokhotkov

ESP-IDF Extension for Visual Studio Code gives our users several features to increase productivity for developing applications with ESP-IDF . ESP32 is a popular low-power system on chip microcontrollers with integrated Wi-Fi and dual-mode Bluetooth, making it suitable for designing and prototyping IoT solutions.

Notable features this extension provides are:

Experience level:

Beginner

IoT & Edge

Lessons of History: What IoT and Edge can Learn from 10 Key Events

Frédéric Desbiens (Eclipse Foundation)

Human history is a treasure trove of lessons, most of them learned painfully. In this presentation, you will hear about 10 key events in history and what you should learn from them if you are an IoT or Edge developer. From the Pelopnonesian War to the Perry expedition, from the Ides of March to German Reunification, this will be an epic mix of historical knowledge and technical insights.

Experience level:

Beginner

IoT & Edge

Eclipse VOLTTRON from Research to Deployment

Jereme Haack (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL))

The session will provide a brief history and background of the platform, describe its capabilities, and then review its use in the community by commercial companies, research labs, and universities. The goal with this discussion is to show how it is being used and not just provide a feature list.

Security of the platform and deployment environment is a key feature of the platform and will also be discussed in context.

Experience level:

Intermediate

IoT & Edge