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EdgeX Foundry is a versatile, flexible, open-source Edge and Cloud software, with plug and play architecture to enable you to utilize the variety of components already created for EdgeX Foundry, and to customize them, or to create your own components as you need them.
EdgeX Foundry is has a microservice-based architecture that and performs the following activities:
- Collects data from the “south side,” by communicating with the physical IoT devices and sensors
- Transforms and packages data for the “north side,” and communicates the data to the Enterprise data storage, enterprise analytics, and intelligence engines
- Moves data north, laterally, or south as needed
- Provides a small amount of intelligence or analytics (rule engines, CEP, limited machine learning) at the edge of the network to provide early detection and warning capability
- Enables third parties (partners, vendors, customers, and so forth) to provide, replace, or augment their own solutions within the stack
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