Time-Critical Edge Compute

Attributes

Description

Informational

Type

Time Critical Edge Compute

Functionally safe capable for Industrial implementations, and enabled for Real-Time

Industry Sector

Industrial Edge with applicability to applications where time-sensitive compute and/or functional safety are required

Business driver

Industrial Edge is shifting dramatically with manufacturers, oil and gas, energy and other major industries transitioning to software defined infrastructure just as the telecommunications sector has been undergoing a similar transformation.  Akraino has the opportunity to play a critical role in hosting scalable, tuned software defined infrastructure for Industrial potentially ushering in this transformation and coalescing the ecosystem.

Business use cases

Use cases in Manufacturing, Smart Buildings, general IIOT.

• Virtualized PLC
  
• Computer vision inference
  
• Machine, sensor data inference
  
• Process or discrete manufacturing closed loop control
  
• Ethernet TSN
  
• Functional Safety capable use cases
  
• Discrete manufacturing soft PLC
• Onramp for 5G-URLLC

Business Cost - Initial Build Cost Target Objective

Example: Dell 3000 - ~$800 list

Example: Dell 5000 - ~$1300 list

Example: HPE EL300 - ~$2500 list

Business Cost – Target Operational Objective

Leverage cloud-native and other IT infrastructure to enable end-users to deploy time-critical and functionally safe applications at the industrial edge on general purpose compute HW.

Security need

Functional Safety (FuSa) core OS certification.

Security for Industrial is a key vector, which is why this stack is in essence functionally safe - by using open source leadership software such as Zephyr and ACRN - projects designed to meet both functional safety and real time requirements for security at the core of the stack.  By leveraging Kata Containers, all container workloads can leverage VT for containerized workload isolation.

Trusted Execution Environment compatible.

Regulations

IEC 61508 - Safety Integrity Level

Other restrictions

For industrial deployments:-

• IEC-600068-2-27, IEC 600068-2-64

• IP50 rated

• Operational humidity: 8 to 90%, noncondensing

• Tested in accordance with IEC-600068-2-56 Non-operating humidity: 5 to 95%, noncondensing

• Tested in accordance with IEC-600068-2-56

• MIL – 810G Tested

• Storage temperature range: -40˚C to +70˚C

• MIL-PRF-28800F class 3 limits

• Operational, -30˚C to 70˚C (-22˚F to 158˚F)

Additional details

Differentiation:

Ruggedized implementation.  Supports functional safety workloads.

Potential to attract new members to Akraino project

○ Industrial ODM’s e.g. Advantech, Adlink

○ Industrial OEM’s/ISV’s e.g. TTTech, Nebbiolo, IOTech

○ Industrial end-users e.g. ExxonMobil

Case Attributes

Description

Informational

Type

New

Blueprint Family - Proposed   Name

TBD

Use Case

Use cases in Manufacturing, Smart Buildings, general IIOT.

• Virtualized PLC
• Computer vision inference
• Machine, sensor data inference
• Process or discrete manufacturing closed loop control
• Ethernet TSN
• Functional Safety capable use cases
• Discrete manufacturing soft PLC
• Onramp for 5G-URLLC

Blueprint proposed Name

Time-Critical Edge Compute

Initial POD Cost (capex)

Example: Dell 3000 - ~$800 list

Example: Dell 5000 - ~$1300 list

Example: HPE EL300 - ~$2500 list

Scale & Type

Intel Atom/Core; ARM -- Ruggedized hardware, low power footprint, real time, safety critical implementations.

Applications

Can span from functionally safe applications, to real time and time-sensitive applications, Android apps and containerized edge workloads orchestrated by Kubernetes.  

Validated applications will include OpenVINO for visual inference workloads, TensorFlow via Kubeflow for Machine learning workloads, Closed loop control, Software Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and EdgeX Foundry

Power Restrictions

• Industrial temp

• Low power

• Fanless design

Infrastructure orchestration

Kubernetes orchestrated Docker and Kata container formats

SDN

As needed by use case, can support OVS-DPDK

Workload Type

VM and Containers in a Type1 Hypervisor, ACRN - https://projectacrn.org/

Safety/Host OS - Zephyr - https://www.zephyrproject.org/

For Industrial, Windows support is critical, and therefore Windows will also be validated on ACRN as part of this blueprint.

Additional Details

See deck and demo link