Industrial IoT Edge Architecture for Machine and Deep Learning
South Bound Device Services: Bridge a large set of device standard protocols and data formats to
common REST APIs.
Northbound Export Services: Northbound distribution of data to the Platform tier from edge
devices and cache.
Both these services provide the necessary modules and protocols to support data transport to and
from the edge, devices and platform.
Liota
Little IoT Agent (Liota) is an open source software development kit (SDK) for building IoT gateway
applications to monitor devices and orchestrate their data to platform or cloud services. Liota
operates on generic edge devices or integrates seamlessly with EdgeX. It leverages the EdgeX
Figure 11: Liota
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