TECHNOLOGY
Internet of Edges (IoE)
IoE is a disruptive digital infrastructure created by a network of interconnected edge devices that share their resources to benefit from locally hosted and high-performing digital services. Autonomous and interoperable, it offers an alternative and complement to centralized, globalized systems by effectively managing local traffic at the local level and preserving global infrastructures for global traffic only. Resources of edge devices operating at multiple locations are federated to offer the equivalent of a cloud, distributed near the data source with enhanced performance, resilience, sovereignty, and energy savings. IoE represents an alliance of cutting-edge technologies and know-how in direct communications networking, edge computing, and distributed systems, resulting from 20 years of research and development.
Edge Network
IoE enables nearby edge devices to communicate directly with each other without the need for any external infrastructure. Edge devices benefit from a high-capacity, mobile, and self-configuring wireless mesh network that transfers high-throughput application traffic in dynamic environments. IoE’s mesh network can be extended via the infrastructure network to reach remote edge devices, servers, or users, thanks to its interoperability. In this case, local traffic remains local, while remote traffic goes through the infrastructure network to reach its destination.
Edge Services
IoE relocates and distributes servers and data to edge devices to enhance speed, reduce latency, and ensure service continuity while in motion. Edge-based services can evolve independently of existing infrastructure, maintaining interoperability and eliminating reliance on a central server.
Edge Cloud
IoE gathers the resources of edge devices operating in multiple locations to create the equivalent of a cloud distributed across the network edges, enabling greater data correlation capacity without referring to a centralized cloud or server.
KEY FEATURES
Mesh Networking
IoE enables direct communications between nearby edge devices, with each device also serving as a relay for other devices in a mesh network. Our patented routing algorithm has demonstrated exceptional performance in terms of mesh network scale and robustness, achieving real-time video transmission over 30 wireless hops.
Network Interfaces
Edge devices participating to an Internet of Edge connect with other edge and client devices through various interfaces, including Wi-Fi 6/6e, HaLow, Bluetooth, 4G/5G, and Ethernet
Network Capacity
Green Communications has designed a selection of IoE products with various ranges and bitrates to suit different market applications (e.g., high or low throughput, real-time or delayed applications, long-range or short-range)
Interoperability
IoE uses the TCP/IP standard and can interoperate with any other TCP/IP networks.
Services included
IoE products come with a suite of integrated edge services rangind from voice and text communications, file sharing, assets geo-location, and visualization, to system control and management (network settings, PKI, VPN, DNS and DHCP management, diagnostic tools, etc.). All these services share the common feature of operating without a central server to ensure continuity of service in motion.
Distributed
IoE integrated services are distributed and automatically synchronized among edge devices, thanks to advanced algorithms that guarantee resource savings, data integrity, and service resiliency. Thus, an edge device can leave and join the network and the user can move within the network while experiencing continuity of service.
Autonomous
Services that are hosted at the edge, near end-users dans devices, are available anytime. Thus, even without Internet connection. Edge-based services can evolve autonomously from a central cloud as well as interact with it.
Network
Wireless communications are WPA2/WPA3 encrypted in access and backhaul. Remote access is provided through secure IP tunnels.
Application
Edge services use TLS (Transport Layer Security) and HTTPS cryptographic protocols to ensure data privacy and integrity over the edge network. Storage, the local file sharing service, enables file encryption.
Operations
One may use IoE as a local and confined Internet, physically isolated from the outside world, making use of the edge services for local communications, collaborative work, and IoT management. In that case, local data remains local with no possible leak nor intrusion.
Other
IoE is open to third parties’ security service integration.
IoE is a dynamic digital infrastructure and supports the mobility of all its components:
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- Edge devices and servers can move, leave or join the network without disrupting the system;
- Users can move within the infrastructure, experiencing handovers while maintaining continuity of services;
- IoE is designed for low-capacity embedded devices. Thanks to its exceptional resource efficiency, the technology operates effectively even with limited energy, processing power, and memory.
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The IoE technology is mostly open, primarily utilizing open standards (e.g., TCP/IP) and open-source software, which allows third-party companies to adopt the product and develop new digital services hosted on edge devices.
PERFORMANCES
PERFORMANCE
IoE provides edge devices with a high-bandwidth direct communications network, enabling the transfer of real-time videos over multiple wireless hops. By relocating services closer to the data source and end-users, latency is reduced.
SCALABILITY
IoE’s network is a vast mesh of edge devices, ranging from groups of autonomous robots to the infrastructure of industrial sites, cities, or entire territories. Our patented routing software has demonstrated exceptional performance in both scale and robustness.
SOVEREIGNTY
Data sources and destinations are either directly connected or accessible via short distribution channels through IoE. This approach minimizes unnecessary data travel through third-party networks and servers, enhancing control over data management.
HIGH ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE
IoE establishes new short distribution channels for local traffic, which accounts for 50% of the global datasphere. This innovation not only conserves global Internet and cloud resources but also significantly reduces the carbon footprint of local communications by up to 16 times.