LightKone - Lightweight Computation for Networks at the Edge
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⭐ Good Practice Description:
The goal of LightKone was ‘to develop a scientifically sound and industrially validated model for doing general-purpose computation on edge networks.’ LightKone approached this objective by rejecting the idea that data collected at the edge should be transported to a central cloud to continue storage and processing and instead worked to create a robust architecture for independent edge networks.
Success Factors:
| Business Success | LightKone’s solution for Peer Stritzinger, a German industrial IoT company, has seen growing adoption. This solution motivated the development of a lightweight edge-computing device (GRiSP), which is now reaching quantity production. Moreover, the LightKone programming model is being commercialised by Paris-based start-up Concordant. |
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| Technology Innovation | A key component of this architecture is the ‘conflict-free replicated data type’ (CRDT), which allows particular pieces of data to exist in multiple places across a network, and for the copies of that data to remain consistent without centralised synchronisation or continuous communication. |
Stakeholders
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INESC TEC - INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIADE SISTEMAS E COMPUTADORES, TECNOLOGIA E CIENCIA (Portugal) -
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE ENINFORMATIQUE ET AUTOMATIQUE (France) -
NOVA ID FCT - ASSOCIACAO PARA A INOVACAO E DESENVOLVIMENTO DA FCT (Portugal)
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SORBONNE UNIVERSITE (France)
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TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET KAISERSLAUTERN (Germany) -
UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA (Spain) -
UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN (Belgium) -
UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE - PARIS 6 (France)
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DIPL. PHYS. PEER STRITZINGER GMBH (Germany)
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GLUK ADVICE BV (Netherlands) -
SCALITY (France)
Strategic Goals
Internet applications are increasingly running on edge networks, to reduce latency, increase scalability, resilience, and security, and permit local decision making. However, today’s state of the art, the gossip and peer-to-peer models, give no solution for defining general-purpose computations on edge networks, i.e., computation with shared mutable state.
Solutions Developed / Used
The goal of LightKone is to develop a scientifically sound and industrially validated model for doing general-purpose computation on edge networks.
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Project Focus
- Operator
Geographical Scope
- European
Keywords
- Edge
Cloud Delivery Model
- SaaS
Project Life-Cycle Stage
- Research and Innovation
Industry
- Information and Communication
Industry
- Science and Research
Technology
- Edge Computing
- Internet of Things (IoT)