IoT and OSS Links — March 23
My weekly summary of interesting links about IoT and open source software.
ADLink announced a new open source project for fog computing, called fog05. The high-level description from their web site:
fog05 defines a set of abstractions to unify the compute, storage and communication fabric end-to-end and thus allow applications to be managed, monitored and orchestrated across the cloud to thing continuum.
There is also a presentation and the github repo. It will definitely be interesting to watch this project.
2. Open Source Simulation Platform
Fascinating to see a consortium of companies forming to create an open source project to help design ships. Even more interesting is they plan to create digital twins of the ships. I am interested in seeing how the term ‘digital twin’ evolves in the IoT industry.
A digital twin is a digital copy of a real ship, including its systems, which synthesizes the information available about the ship in a digital world. Using digital twins enable optimization of a ship’s design, maintenance, production and sustainability throughout its entire lifecycle.
3. GE open source their Predix Design System
In a tweet GE Predix announced they open source 117 repos that contain the code for the Predix Design System. It is interesting to see GE take a significant step towards contributing to open source. In the past I haven’t seen them to be that active in open source.
However, I am not sure if 117 repos to create web ui for Predix services is going to be that interesting for the general open source IoT community?
Our user interface components enable you to quickly and easily create Industrial Internet web applications that run on dedicated Predix services and data.
4. A useful table explaining the difference between various wireless protocols
Bonus
Earlier this week I wrote a blog post comparing the top 10 Industrial Automation vendors and their IoT platform offerings. Some interesting comments from people in my LinkedIn network.