Abstract: IoT edge plays the role of a link, connecting the edge and the cloud, the edge of real-time data processing, the cloud’s powerful computing capabilities combined to create unlimited value.

This article is shared by Huawei cloud community “How to realize massive IoT Data on-site processing on the Edge of IoT”, by Super. Vivian.

The concept of edge does not appear for a long time, many people have been generalized to it, the scope of definition and elaboration are different, and even some are repeated and contradictory, today with everyone to learn what IoT edge is

First, IoT edge concept

First of all, what is an edge? Edge computing is the processing of data at the edge of the network to reduce latency and demand for cloud computing and data center resources. Edge computing takes place in the smart grid, where data is collected and processed. The market space at the current edge is very imaginative. Consulting companies have predicted the edge of the market space, by the end of 2023, more than 50% of large enterprises will deploy at least six edge computing applications for the Internet of things or immersive experience, the Chinese market take industrial Internet as an example, it is estimated that in 2023, industrial manufacturing will have a market space of 7.2 billion DOLLARS.

The various forms of huawei edge

Huawei’s edge positioning is divided into three forms:

  • Edge cloud: such as IEC, mainly used for interactive entertainment, online education, media creation

  • Edge sites: For example, IES are used for innovative service deployment, cloud and local data retention in traditional services

  • Edge cloud services: IoTEdge, for example, is generally used for intelligent parks, intelligent transportation, intelligent manufacturing, etc.

Huawei Cloud IoT edge cloud services

Now are saying “intelligent manufacturing”, “the Internet is the next industrial Internet”, “seize the opportunity of digital new infrastructure”, “industrial Internet is one of the 7 big new infrastructure”, these new concepts are inseparable from the light Edge IoT Edge.

IoT form, at the edge of the cloud services are divided into cloud side and edge side, side to side edge IoT mainly divided into huawei cloud provides data management, partner plugin framework and run, run the framework of octopus tentacles trunk, used for shielding the underlying system and hardware differences, guaranteeing the normal operation of the upper business at the same time, the partner plugin is equivalent to the suction cups on the tentacles, It is the entrance and grip of edge data. Data processing is equivalent to the cerebellum in the tentacle, processing and transferring data.

Why use plug-in development

In actual production and manufacturing, customers always encounter difficult problems:

  • Data needs to be collected on the edge side, but there are many kinds of non-target devices, and there is no unified standard protocol. Data of old devices cannot be collected. Without data support, digitalization and intelligentization cannot be realized

  • The data on the edge side is often tens of thousands of points, millisecond level of data magnitude, data on the cloud, bandwidth and middleware performance requirements are very high

  • In actual production, equipment failure is common. Engineers often need to go to the location of the equipment for operation and maintenance, which consumes manpower and material resources and has very low timeliness

  • There are data barriers, and OEM has no channel to know the actual use of EU equipment, so as to improve and improve the equipment. Only when we solve the pain points of these customers, can we come into play

Edge can provide plug-in operation framework, with the help of ecological power, so that people who understand the industry knowhow, together with Huawei cloud IoT to solve these pain points. IoT and ecosystem partners can provide data collection capability at the customer site, collect industrial equipment according to the protocol, further route the data to the specified application, and finally the application business closed loop. At this time, we build the plug-in ecosystem, and achieve the true interconnection of everything.

How to integrate with huawei Cloud IoT edge plug-in

Huawei cloud IoT plug-in integration solution

Huawei cloud IoT provides a running framework for plug-ins. Plug-ins developed by partners can run within the framework. We hope that more partners like Morihara will join the IoT ecosystem and solve different customer problems in different fields.

Partner Sheng Yuan Cheng and Huawei Cloud IoT cooperation

Shengyuancheng is A company focusing on the equipment industry, and is committed to the digitalization, intelligence and service transformation of the equipment industry. It has A deep understanding of the industry and has A strong R&D force, with r&d personnel accounting for 80%. It focuses on the equipment industry and gets A and A+ round of investment. Morihara and Huawei have been working together since 2016, and their main products include CMS and SLM. These two products are the fist products of Shengyuan Cheng’s main equipment industry. Shengyun Circle is integrated with IoT edge, which is also the focus of our cooperation this time. Cloud Cat integrated IoTDA in 2018 and was selected by Huawei Cloud. This time, it mainly integrates CMS and Light Edge. The two products can manage the whole life cycle of equipment through huawei Cloud IoT services.

As shown in the figure below, the CMS software is compatible with a variety of protocols and third-party data interface, can realize the collection of equipment at the bottom of the high-speed millisecond, data distribution and data on the cloud, break through the clouds and the underlying equipment’s data link is a powerful standard module functions, intelligent control the production process (monitor kanban, alarm, formulation, key parameters, data analysis, With CMS’s high frequency data support, SLM can make use of the cloud’s powerful numerical analysis capabilities to achieve fault analysis, predictive maintenance and so on

How does IoT Edge integrate with CMS

The figure above shows the data flow of Shengyuan Cheng plug-in integrated with Huawei Cloud IoT on the edge and the architecture after SIoT and IoT edge integration. Site also known as edge side edge of the site and site equipment, the cloud is huawei cloud middleware and upper SAAS application of IoT, the implementation of personnel need only on the local environment, with the development of CMS version, configured collection point table and need to show the standard module, through the remote tool to import the project files to nanotubes IoT edge nodes, Pull and deploy the CMS image on the IoT edge platform to the node, so that the deployment can be completed quickly in three simple steps, and the data link between the whole underlying device and the cloud can be opened.

SIoT edge after integration, and huawei IoT projects often appear to some unusual because system lead to different software, especially the Windows system, container deployment to IoT edge after solved the system environment lead to software deployment implementation of difficult issues, IoT edge can be used to achieve a button on the remote remote deployment to the edge nodes, efficient and stable. After the integration, huawei’s IoT edge has the powerful data processing capability to connect the full amount of data from underlying devices to the cloud with low delay, which largely ensures the synchronous display of data in the cloud and reduces delay. After data through, can rely on the edge of IoT to effective control of nodes, pooling a large number of equipment information, at the same time, relying on the powerful computing ability, the clouds will be issued to the side of edge node algorithm model, the production process of the actual optimization has great value, play a link between the edge of the IoT, connection edge and cloud, a real-time data processing on the edge side, The powerful computing power of the cloud combines the two to create unlimited value.

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