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Overview - Delivering Industry 4.0 Together

The Industrial Edge has unique distributed computing, protocol, data, ML, security and integration challenges not found in retail, consumer or other edge markets.

Fledge is the Linux Foundation's Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) edge platform and community architected for and built by industrial users, machine builders, smart industrial sensor suppliers, industrial software suppliers, system integrators and cloud operators. The Fledge project was seeded by Dianomic, Google, AVEVA/OSIsoft, Teledyne/FLIR and JEA (8th largest utility in the U.S.). Our community is growing fast with over 60 contributors. Fledge is also adopted by LF Energy (Fledge Power Project), OSDU and is being evaluated by CESMII.

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Some quick links:

For Machine Builders, System Integrators, Smart Sensor Suppliers, Industrial Software Suppliers and Contributors

For Users and No Code Application Developers

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Fledge has been deployed in industrial operations since 2019! Some of our public use cases include:

JEA - Energy substation monitoring and automation
RTE - Energy RTU server gateway (IEC104, IEC61850, TASE 2, OpenADR)
General Atomics - Military drone manufacturing
Neuman Aluminum - Aluminum part manufacturing
Honda Racing - Digital Twin machine optimizations
Opus One/UC Davis - Wine production and safety

Some of our private use cases include:

Large gas pipeline operator - Remote monitoring stations where SCADA doesn't reach
Pharmaceutical company - Redundant PLC connections and data transformations to historians with HA for compliance
Major chemical company - Multi-protocol gateway in the cloud connecting 200,000 LoRaWan sensors and API gateway connecting cloud services to historians
Midwest electric generator - Replace route based monitoring in gas turbine plants
Large food processor - Centrifuge optimization using ML with vibration and PLC data
Small engine manufacturer - Monitor robot and CNC process for real-time part quality inspection with track and trace integrated with MS Azure and historian
Amusement park solar farm - solar tracker monitoring

Strategic Collaborations

AVEVA - Integrates data with PI, AVEVA Data Hub, pulls data from PI
ACDP - MS Azure Integration
Beckhoff - Collects data from PLCs
Cisco - Operates in Cisco containers
FLIR - Connects, collects and integrates FLIR cameras, Spinnaker for Computer Vision applications, REST for data feeds
Google - Integrates Google's IoT Core, GC Pub/Sub, TensorFlow, Tensorflow Lite, AutoML, ML Edge
HarperDB - Integrates data with DB
Nexcom -J1939 and J1708 integrations, Coral integration
Nokia - Integrates NDAC private LTE and 5G
ThinkIQ - Integrates
Wago - Collects data from PLCs, operates in container
In Progress
- AWS Sitewise Integration

We invite you to use Fledge and contribute to the Fledge Project. And, we look forward to delivering the Industrial 4.0 vision together.

Collect, Transform, Integrate - Industrial IoT Fundamentals

Fledge connects to all OT data sources (PLCs, DCS, CNC, robots, sensors, etc) supporting the many legacy, current and emerging protocols, networks and methods found in industrial use. The data types from these machines goes beyond time-series data including image, vibration, radio metric and more.

Second, Fledge collects and aggregates this data on the edge.

Third, Fledge transforms, processes, filters, stores, analyzes, alerts and notifies on the edge. Applications may be as simple as converting celsius to Fahrenheit or multi-protocol gateway transformations that map data from different schemas/protocols or as complex as ML/AL and computer vision detecting anomalies or optimizing operations from the edge.

Fourth, Fledge has bi-directional write capability for set-point control. Using Linux, this control function is not intended for RTOS applications. However, it is suitable for writing PLC instructions or sub-second control functions.

Last, Fledge Integrates the data to any and multiple destinations simultaneously creating a smart secure and scalable OT data fabric from sensors and machines to industrial systems and clouds.

Industry 4.0 Requires a 4.0 Edge

Fledge - The Open Source Industry 4.0 Edge Governed by the Linux Foundation

Features	Benefits
Universal Data Acquisition (Any sensor, machine, system)	Connect Everything
Universal Data Integration (ISA95, Any Cloud)	No Data Silos – IT/OT Convergence
Setpoint Control (Bi-directional write, example MES to PLC)	Automation
Extract Once – Use Many - Source Truth	No Data Silos, Trust Data, Cost, Manage
Edge Analytics – Data Transformations & ML	Solves Latency, Data Volume
Event Detection and Notification	Alert Organization (faults, optimizations, actions, safety)
No/Low/Source Code Application Dev	Enables All Organizations (Ops, Engineering, IT, DevOps, Maint…)
Edge Buffer/HA	Compliance, Reliability
Compliment-Integrate w/ Control System	Supports All Organizations
Multiple Data Types (TS, image, Radiometric, Vibration)	No Data Silos, Consistent APIs, Scale, Management
Scale Up-Out	Security, Reliability, Usability (Delight ITops, Secops, Netops, Devops)
No Vendor Lock – Apache 2 – Open Governance	Support, Control, Flexibility, Cost
Intel, ARM, nVidia, Google Coral – Any Linux	Open - No Vendor Lock

Fledge developers and operators no longer face complexity and fragmentation issues when building their IIoT applications as they gather and process more machine and sensor data to automate and transform business. Fledge’s modern pluggable architecture eliminates the data silos often found in plants, factories and mines. By using a consistent set of RESTful APIs to develop, manage and secure IIoT applications, Fledge creates a unified, scalable, manageable and secure converged OT-IT edge solution.

Join Us as our community delivers the benefits of a shared open source stack to OT users and suppliers sharing the Industry 4.0 Vision.

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