FogFlow
FogFlow is an IoT edge computing framework to automatically orchestrate dynamic
data processing flows over cloud and edges driven by context, including system
context on the available system resources from all layers, data context on the
registered metadata of all available data entities, and also usage context on
the expected QoS defined by users.
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Background
FogFlow is a standard-based data processing framework for service providers to
easily program and manage IoT services over cloud and edges. Below are the
motivation, functionalities, and benefits of FogFlow.
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Why do we need FogFlow?
- the cost of a cloud-only solution is too high to run a large scale IoT
system with >1000 geo-distributed devices - many IoT services require fast response time, such as <10ms end-to-end
latency - service providers are facing huge complexity and cost to fast design and
deploy their IoT services in a cloud-edge environment - business demands are changing fast over time and service providers need
to try out and release any new services over their shared cloud-edge
infrastructure at a fast speed - lack of programming model to fast design and deploy IoT services over
geo-distributed ICT infrastructure - lack of interoperability and openness to share and reuse data and
dervied results across various applications
- the cost of a cloud-only solution is too high to run a large scale IoT
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What does FogFlow provide?
- efficient programming model: programming a service is like building lego
blocks - dynamic service orchestration: launching necessary data processing only
when it is required - optimized task deployment: assigning tasks between cloud and edges based
on the locality of producers and consumers - scalable context
management: allowing flexible information exchanging (both topic-based
and scope-based) between producers and consumers
- efficient programming model: programming a service is like building lego
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How can customers benefit from FogFlow?
- fast time-to-market when realizing and releasing new services over the
shared, geo-distributed ICT infrastructure - reduced operation cost and management complexity when operating variou
services - being able to provide services that require low latency and fast
response time
- fast time-to-market when realizing and releasing new services over the
Installation
The instructions to install FogFlow can be found in the
Installation Guide
API
APIs and examples of their usage can be found
here
Testing
For performing a basic end-to-end test, you can follow the detailed instructions here.
Quality Assurance
This project is part of FIWARE and has been rated as
follows:
- Version Tested:
- Documentation:
- Responsiveness:
- FIWARE Testing:
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License
FogFlow is licensed under
BSD-4-Clause.
© 2017 NEC