netFIELD OS Edge

Owned by Marek Meyer
2023-02-02

netFIELD OS Edge is the preferred runtime environment for making your edge devices centrally manageable with netFIELD Cloud. netFIELD OS Edge supports the full range of device management and container deployment functionality of netFIELD (see Overview - netFIELD OS Runtime Environments for a comparison of runtime environments). 




Capabilities of netFIELD OS Edge

Device Management

netFIELD OS Edge enables you to centrally manage your edge devices for your industrial IoT application. 

Features:

  • Onboard your edge devices to netFIELD cloud to manage and monitor them remotely
  • Resource monitoring and telemetry data
  • Remotely deploy OS updates through netFIELD Cloud

Container Management

netFIELD OS Edge enables you to centrally manage your deployments of software containers to distributed edge devices. 

Features:

  • Remote deployment of software containers (Docker) to your edge device
  • Remote updates of software containers
  • Remote configuration of software containers
  • Optional: container dashboards centrally presented in netFIELD Portal 

IoT Data Management

netFIELD OS Edge enables you to configure the routing of your IoT data. You decide where which types of data are required. 

netFIELD supports MQTT as IoT data protocol throughout the whole stack. 

Features:

  • Managed MQTT broker
  • Data destination configurable per MQTT topic
  • Data connector for netFIELD Cloud platform
  • Data connectors for 3rd party cloud platforms - e.g. AWS or MS Azure
  • Supports deploying your own custom data connectors

Designed for Industrial IoT

netFIELD OS is based on the Linux project YOCTO, which has been designed to support embedded and IoT devices. 

Supported Hardware Devices

netFIELD OS Edge currently officially supports the following edge devices: