thin-edge.io | The open edge framework for lightweight IoT devices

Why should you use it?

Freedom of choice

Out-of-the-box connectivity to many IoT platforms including Azure IoT, Cumulocity IoT, and more

Supports any programming language and messaging payload using MQTT for inter-process communication

Deployable onto most embedded hardware platforms, operating systems, and software containers

Robust device management

Extensible software, firmware and configuration management with support for many software artefact types including binary, Debian and Docker

Device-side lifecycle handling and management of X.509 certificates for secure device authentication

Resource monitoring and remote access to measure in-life device performance and simplify troubleshooting

Efficient on embedded devices

Low CPU usage and less than 16 MB memory footprint that minimises impact on critical IoT apps and battery life

Fast native performance from being written in C and Rust

Watchdog supervised with system to assure correct operation and rapid recovery from any malfunctions

How it works

Highly portable and multi-language environment for the connected world

What challenges does thin-edge.io solve?

Cloud connections are complex developments

Increasing device complexity increases the need to continuously keep firmware, software, and apps updated in the field. Securely connecting and maintaining devices operating in live operational environments poses many security and reliability challenges.

High degree of customisation needed

Fragmentation of hardware and software across an estate typically increases with scale and means that it's difficult to have a common IoT platform management approach. This limits you being able to roll-out updates across all devices or capturing consistent data for preventative maintenance.

Eco-system lock-in is commonplace

Many IoT platform vendors provide their own software which can be installed onto devices at design time. This software essentially locks the device to that vendor, and means that end customers are not free to choose which IoT platform to use.

Get started

Starting with thin-edge.io is simple, only needing a few commands to connect to your IoT platform. Check out our docs.

dpkg -i tedge_0.1.0_armhf.deb tedge_mapper_0.1.0_armhf.deb (Reading database … 106941 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack tedge_0.1.0_armhf.deb … Unpacking tedge (0.1.0) over (0.1.0) … Preparing to unpack tedge_mapper_0.1.0_armhf.deb … Unpacking tedge_mapper (0.1.0) over (0.1.0) … Setting up tedge (0.1.0) … Setting up tedge_mapper (0.1.0) … tedge cert create –device-id my-thin-edge tedge config set c8y.url sb.cumulocity.com tedge cert upload c8y –user sebu tedge connect c8y Checking if systemd and mosquitto are available. Checking if configuration for requested bridge already exists. Creating configuration for requested bridge. Restarting mosquitto, [requires elevated permission], authorise when asked. Awaiting mosquitto to start. This may take up to 5 seconds. Sending packets to check connection. Registering the device in Cumulocity if the device is not yet registered. Saving configuration. Successfully created bridge connection! tedge mqtt pub ‘{“temperature”: 22.3}‘

Contribute

thin-edge.io is an industry agnostic collaborative project created to solve the critical challenges encountered in developing resource-constrained edge devices.

It is because of our contributing partners that this project has been brought to life, to help you solve the same challenges in your developments. To contribute see our contributor section on GitHub.

News & updates

Keep up to date with thin-edge.io

June 22, 2022

Monitor and Maintain the health of your devices with thin-edge.io release 0.7

With this latest release (0.7) of thin-edge.io we have added some significant capabilities. Enhancements include: Health check for tedge daemons, Watchdog for thin-edge.io, Configuration file management plugin for Cumulocity IoT and Logfile management plugin for Cumulocity IoT.
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April 12, 2022

New thin-edge.io 0.6 with support for alarms and events, certified by Cumulocity IoT

We're happy to announce the new thin-edge.io 0.6 with added support for two new data types (events and alarms), init system flexibility and Cumulocity IoT device agent certification.
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January 24, 2022

Enhanced device management with thin-edge.io 0.5

With the latest release of thin-edge.io we have reached another significant milestone. Enhancements include device hierarchy in data, extensible device capabilities declaration, log file uploading, and cloud mapper extensions.
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October 26, 2021

Keeping it simple - Embedded IoT connected devices

Industrial equipment manufacturers face many challenges when creating IoT connected devices. Learn three things industrial product manufacturers need to tackle them.
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October 15, 2021

Keep it simple - Secure cloud connections for smart products

Last year, IoT was considered to be important in 50% of all embedded projects for the first time, according to the EE Times Embedded Markets Study. This is a huge statement considering the heterogeneity of the projects: Split across hardware architectures, software environments, connectivity alternatives, with and without operating systems,…
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October 14, 2021

Introducing Software Management on thin-edge.io 0.3

Industrial equipment manufacturers face many challenges when creating IoT connected devices. Learn three things industrial product manufacturers need to tackle them.
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