HKG18- 200K1- Keynote Mark Hambleton: The Fog1. © 2018 Arm Limited
The Fog.
Mark Hambleton
March 2018
Today’s world of devices connected to clouds looks set to evolve
with more intelligence and processing being pushed to the edge
or migrating between the cloud and the edge.
The very definition of edge is evolving too. In this presentation
we will look at some potential futures made possible by the
emergence of the fog and its implications for the segments that
it embraces.
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Introduction
Today I’d like to
• Introduce you to a “new” trend
• Briefly describe the what and the why
• Describe some key attributes
• Explain why it’s important to us all
• And then hopefully you’ll be as excited as I am… ;-)
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The smartphone revolution
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IoT - now
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The next phase of IoT is driving big changes
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Really? Smart home == autonomous vehicle?
When you think about a smart-anything - it will (most likely)
• Host multiple sensors of different types
• Control actuators of different types and
• Require some level of safety
• Connect to multiple cloud services for different purposes
• Require storage for local content caching
• Require compute resources to process data and make decisions
So in some respects: yes, really…
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So, what’s the problem?
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“The EDGE will EAT
the CLOUD”
Gartner Inc.
March 2017
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Trend : Pushing cloud services to the edge
Cloud
Fog
Core NetworkLocal Network Access Network
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What does this mean in reality?
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What’s behind the move toward fog?
Sub-millisecond
Response
PrivacyBuilt in Security
Autonomy When
Communications Go
Down
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The Cloud to Things Continuum
Mission Statement:
To drive industry and academic leadership in fog computing architecture, testbed
development, and interoperability and composability deliverables that seamlessly
bridge the cloud-to-things continuum.
Storage NetworkCompute AcceleratorsControl
Founding members
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Security Scalability Open Autonomy RAS Agility Hierarchy Programmability
Storage
Network
Compute Accelerators
Control
• Trust
• Attestation
• Privacy
• Localized command,
control
and processing
• Orchestration
and Analytics
• Avoidance of network
taxes
• Resource visibility and
control
• White box decision
making
• Interop and Data
normalization
• Flexible
• Cognition
and agility
• Value of data
• Reliability
• Availability
• Serviceability
• Tactical and strategic
decision making
• Data to wisdom
• Fully cloud enabled
• Computational and
System
• Autonomy at all levels
• Programmable SW/HW
• Virtualization and multi-
tenant
• App Fluidity
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Security
Storage
Network
Compute Accelerators
Control
Security
• Secure
• Updatable and up-to-date
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Security
Storage
Network
Compute Accelerators
Control
Security
• Secure
• Updatable and up-to-date
Trust and Attestation
• Trusting the device is secure and up to date
• Knowing the device is what it says it is
(Identity)
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Security
Storage
Network
Compute Accelerators
Control
Security
• Secure
• Updatable and up-to-date
Trust and Attestation
• Trusting the device is secure and up to date
• Knowing the device is what it says it is
(Identity)
Privacy
• Controlled access to data
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Scalability Open
Storage
Network
Compute Accelerators
Control
Scalability
• Localized command, control and processing
• Orchestration and Analytics
• Avoidance of network taxes
Open
• Resource visibility and control
• White box decision making
• Interop and Data normalization
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Security Scalability Open Autonomy RAS Agility Hierarchy Programmability
Storage
Network
Compute Accelerators
Control
• Trust
• Attestation
• Privacy
• Localized command,
control
and processing
• Orchestration
and Analytics
• Avoidance of network
taxes
• Resource visibility and
control
• White box decision
making
• Interop and Data
normalization
• Flexible
• Cognition
and agility
• Value of data
• Reliability
• Availability
• Serviceability
• Tactical and strategic
decision making
• Data to wisdom
• Fully cloud enabled
• Computational and
System
• Autonomy at all levels
• Programmable SW/HW
• Virtualization and multi-
tenant
• App Fluidity
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Examples…
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Public Safety
Video Surveillance
Problem
• Cloud doesn’t scale for wide surveillance
• Rapid decisions on location
Challenges
• Terabytes of data from high definition cameras
Fog Technology
• Intelligent partitioning of video processing
between cameras and cloud
• Real-time, latency sensitive analytics
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Supply Chain Delivery
Aerial Drones
Problem
• Volume/expense of traditional delivery
Challenges
• Safety, bandwidth, and operational challenges
• Regulatory complexities
Fog Technology
• Coordinates drone landings, take offs, loading,
unloading, maintenance
• Autonomous awareness, analysis and sub-millisecond
response to changing conditions
• Security
• Highly scalable
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Process Manufacturing
Craft Brewing
Challenge
• Maintain quality and consistency working with natural ingredients
• Keep the brewing recipe a secret
• Reduce variances that can be introduced by manufacturing
equipment /
machinery, processes and weather.
• Predictive maintenance
• Optimize factory investments when faced with demand
fluctuations
Why Fog
• Creation of a digital twin frees the brewer to explore new recipes.
• Privacy of secret recipe(s)
• Fog-enabled predictive maintenance for proactive
detection/repair.
• Fog-based resource sharing
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Edge Intelligence, enabling enterprises,
manufacturers, infrastructure, cities and IoT
vendors with real-time business and
operational insights
• Reduces, analyzes, trains & predicts from
edge data, on-the-fly
• Creates intelligent Digital Twin models of
reality from gray data
• Edge compute fabric for analysis & ML driven
predictions
• Delivers business insights by real-time UI/API
https://www.swim.ai/
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Cloud
OpenFog
Sensors & Actuators
Gateway box or
VM in a Fog Node
Gateway-to-Fog
Fog-to-Cloud Protocols
Fog-to-Fog Protocols
Sensor-to-Gateway
Gateway-to-Fog
Sensor-to-Gateway
Gateway-to-Fog
Sensor-to-Gateway
Gateway-to-Fog
Sensor-to-Gateway
- Compute (+ Accelerators)
- Storage
- Networking
Edge
“Things”
General Edge-to-Fog-to-Cloud Fog infrastructure
So what?
Services closer to the edge
• Distributed compute
• Varying types / capacities
• Multiple architectures
• Storage
• Valuable data at the edge
• Content protection
• Interoperability
• Standards based
• Security
• Trust
• Privacy
• Updatability and up to date!
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And it opens up so many new opportunities…
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Leaders work in
And we already work in many components of the Fog
Core Members
Club Members
Group Members
Community Members
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Systems of connected
embedded devices are the
new disruption
Fog computing will enable the creation of
complex systems based on technologies from
all segments…
And more importantly lots of new
opportunities!