IoT & Edge

Should You Bring Kubernetes on Your Edge Roadtrip?

Edge Computing is about distributing computational power and data storage wherever needed. From a developer's perspective, the whole point is to bring cloud-native tools and techniques outside the data center. Naturally, this includes Kubernetes. But is Kubernetes needed on the Edge? Or rather, do *you* need Kubernetes for your project? Many of the leading Edge platforms available right now can orchestrate applications and services independently. Others, however, integrate with Kubernetes or are directly based on it. Which one is the right approach for you?

Experience level:

Intermediate

IoT & Edge

Six years of Eclipse Kura Wires - Open, No-code Edge IoT Development to Create Business Value (sponsored by Eurotech)

Nicola Timeus (Eurotech)

Eclipse Kura Wires has grown from its initial contribution to a production ready solution widely adopted in the field.

Its main goal is simplicity, allowing to implement IoT solutions using a visual data flow programming model that hides the complexity of the involved protocols and technologies.
The talk will provide an overview of the evolution of the framework up the current state, showcasing the key concepts behind it, its openness, extensibility and the existing ecosystem. We will show you how the framework is being used in real-world applications and use cases from the field.

Experience level:

Beginner

IoT & Edge

Human Face Detection and Recognition: AIoT on the esp32 with Espressif-IDE (Eclipse CDT Powered IDE)

Kondal Kolipaka (Espressif Systems)

As part of this session, will use Espressif-IDE powered with Eclipse CDT for developing AIoT-based human face detection and human face recognition applications using the esp-who framework.

Experience level:

Beginner

IoT & Edge

Decentralized Spatial Communications with VAST

Victory Opeolu (Student)

We will be talking about a unique library called VAST, a spatial publish/subscribe (SPS) library developed as a cost effective and highly scalable alternative to the existing publish/subscribe architectures. Unlike a standard pub/sub architecture that deals with topics/channels, SPS is a scheme whereby subscriptions and publications are associated with a point, area or volume in a spatial environment. This is made possible thanks to more and more modern devices being developed with some form of spatial functionality.

Experience level:

Intermediate

IoT & Edge

Free and Open Source Hardware to enable RISC-V IoT Applications With the Eclipse Foundation and OpenHW Group

Davide Schiavone (OpenHW)

Frédéric Desbiens (Eclipse Foundation)

Massimiliano Giacometti (OpenHW Group)

Free and open-source hardware is no more a dream. Freedom, cost, security, control, and digital sovereignty are only a few advantages of choosing open-source hardware IPs.
The Eclipse Foundation and the OpenHW Group, a not-for-profit global organization, are designing with their members on the highway towards industrial-grade, production-ready open-source cores, and related IP, tools, and software. In this talk, we introduce you to the OpenHW Group ecosystem, its relationship with Eclipse, and its working task groups.

Experience level:

Beginner

IoT & Edge

Making Industry 4.0 data integration of pre-existing and live data easy with Eclipse BaSyx

Frank Schnicke (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft)

The implementation of Industry 4.0 presents companies with major challenges.
For example, existing systems such as ERP or PLM contain valuable data assets, but are not easy to integrate with the new Industry 4.0 concepts such as the digital twin. In addition, there are many interactions between existing systems, creating a web of dependencies that is difficult to break. As a result, Industry 4.0 can only be successfully implemented with a structured migration path that minimizes risks by avoiding a big-bang migration.

Experience level:

Beginner

IoT & Edge

Using modern toolchains in embedded systems

Bernhard Rosenkränzer (Huawei Technologies Co., LTD.)

Many embedded systems are held back by the fact that they use ancient toolchains - often because that's what's provided by chipset makers as part of a BSP. Here's how we solve the problem in the Eclipse Oniro project - and how other IoT/embedded systems projects inside Eclipse can benefit.

The target audience is people working on IoT/Edge/embedded systems projects (including automotive) who want to know about toolchains and crosscompilers for their target devices. There are often better options than using a hardware vendor provided BSP.

Experience level:

Intermediate

IoT & Edge

Scalable Device Connectivity Re-Loaded

Kai Hudalla (Robert Bosch GmbH)

Eclipse Hono provides a cloud native device connectivity layer that can be deployed to a container orchestration platform like Kubernetes. The project has graduated from incubation in October 2019 and has since evolved into a full fledged device connectivity solution that supports connecting millions of devices using arbitrary device protocols like MQTT, HTTP, AMQP 1.0 and CoAP out of the box. Together with Eclipse Ditto and hawkBit, Hono is at the core of the Bosch IoT Suite SaaS product offering.

Experience level:

Intermediate

IoT & Edge

Route and store MQTT messages anywhere with Eclipse Zenoh

Julien Enoch (ZettaScale Technology SARL)

Eclipse Zenoh is a communication middleware designed to work across communication technologies, such as Ethernet, TSN, WiFi, Serial, OpenThreadX and BLE. It can operate at different geographical scales such as LAN, MAN and WAN, and in various topology configurations such as peer-to-peer, mesh, brokered and routed. Zenoh also provides a plugin mechanism to integrate with other middlewares like MQTT, DDS and HTTP, as well as to integrate with many storage technologies like InfluxDB, RocksDB, and MariaDB.

Experience level:

Beginner

IoT & Edge

Embrace all the little things with Zenoh-Pico

Carlos Guimarães (ZettaScale Technology SARL)

Have you ever struggled to integrate embedded devices in your application logic? Especially when your application may also run everywhere across the cloud to thing continuum? For a long time, stitching together multiple communication technologies has been the obvious way to go for making microcontrollers part of your application. But a new time has come.

Eclipse Zenoh has proven to be a unified solution for the Cloud-to-Things continuum for efficiently distributing data, greatly improving the wire efficiency of existing protocols while providing higher level abstractions.

Experience level:

Beginner

IoT & Edge