Avassa for
Industrial Edge

Powering Industrial IoT with Secure & Automated Edge Computing.

Managing industrial IoT edge computing systems on-site can be complex and time-consuming. What if you could automate edge device management, including remote application deployment, OS updates, and real-time monitoring? Avassa provides a secure, full-stack industrial edge computing platform, ensuring both physical and cybersecurity protection—whether online or offline. Discover how Avassa simplifies industrial IoT operations.

Introducing Avassa for Industrial Edge.

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Industrial Edge is transforming. Software operations are moving from proprietary operating systems, to Linux and fully containerized future-proof IoT applications. Meanwhile, there is an increased customer demand for both online and offline non-stop operations as well as fast and remote support and maintenance. Security threats are continuously increasing. This requires new and high standards for delivering next-generation software-lead IoT solutions.

Avassa is your partner for next generation industrial edge solutions, with containers at heart. Why containers? →

Why Choose Avassa for Industrial Edge?

Avassa for Industrial Edge allows you to deploy, monitor, observe, and secure container applications at your IoT edge. Using the Avassa Edge Platform, you can test, and release features with unprecedented speed, no matter the number of locations. Automation accelerates feature implementation and deployment, enabling you to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving technological landscape and deliver your full potential with Edge IoT operations.

Key Benefits of Avassa for Industrial IoT

  • Full Application Lifecycle Management: Avassa for Industrial Edge allows you to manage your IIoT application’s full lifecycle, enabling you to adapt a true as-a-service delivery model. We support modern container applications as well as containerized Virtual Machines.
  • Gain Competitive Advantage and Boost Innovation: With Avassa, application deployments, versioning, monitoring, and troubleshooting are fully remote. Also, the solution provides full application autonomy, making application operations resilient to unstable connectivity. This allows you to roll out features and meet SLAs with excellence.
  • Seamlessly Integrated with Linux and Hardware Solutions: As an IoT solution vendor, you provide sophisticated hardware-software combinations. Avassa is seamlessly integrated with Linux and hardware combinations of your choice, enhancing the capabilities of your software solutions at the IoT edge, where it matters most.
  • Protecting data in-flight and at rest. Protecting data is a critical aspect of any IoT system. Avassa for Industrial Edge offers intrinsic security features to ensure that your sensitive data remains secure while being transmitted or stored. This is particularly relevant in IoT scenarios where data breaches can have severe implications and perimeter security is limited.
  • Minimized Risk Exposure. Edge sites are protected from physical and digital threats and can be locked down in case of attacks.
  • Robust and remote OS upgrades. We manage OS upgrades in the Avassa Edge Platform, including Debian/Ubuntu, Red Hat, Wind River or your Yocto image.
  • Distributed Edge Computing Expertise: Avassa excels in the realm of edge computing, offering a platform that’s ideal for scenarios where applications are deployed across various industrial hosts. We’re available 24/7 for expertise support.

By utilizing standardized container technology, you will also benefit from the reuse of mainstream CI/CD and container tooling and competence, unlocking new levels of competitive advantage and scalability.

Offer a more intelligent and agile IoT Edge Solution. Avassa for Industrial Edge is your enabler for easy management and operations of your IoT application.

Features of Avassa: A Powerful Industrial Edge Computing Platform

  • Remote management and fully automated deployments. Onboard hosts, and deploy and update your IoT applications fully remote and at scale. Avassa for Industrial Edge also supports remote and automated OS upgrades.
  • Application resilience online and offline. Fault-tolerant clustering, independent of internet connectivity. Self-healing features for business-critical IoT applications in both online and offline scenarios.
  • Built for IIoT at scale. The Avassa platform is purpose-built for large-scale IoT Edge deployments in tens of thousands of locations.
  • Intrinsic security. Sensitive data, theft-prone hosts, or sniffed networks? The Avassa platform protects all your IoT application data and network traffic and provides secure call-home.
  • Minimized Risk Exposure. Site-local encryption keys and distributed secrets to reduce security risks and blast radius. Automatic key rotation secures your data and applications over time. Secrets are only distributed on a need-to-know basis.
  • Automated OS upgrades. Centrally manage OS upgrades for your edge hosts. Avassa provides rich integration towards leading OS distributions utilizing the OS built-in features like A/B upgrades.
  • Automatic discovery of IoT devices. The Avassa platform will discover external devices, such as sensors, cameras, or devices, and automatically place your IoT applications accordingly.
  • Edge native telemetry bus. Avassa provides an embedded telemetry bus running at each host. This simplifies sensor data collection and application development efforts to collect, filter, enrich, and aggregate your and your customers’ data.
  • Observability for your application and IoT system health. Get real-time insight into the health of your IoT applications and provide remote support to your customers.
  • Multi-tenancy and resource management. Split local system resources across different applications. This includes deep application isolation and the ability to let 3rd party teams share the IoT Edge infrastructure in a controlled manner.
Smart industrial facility with IoT-enabled security, automation, and monitoring systems for logistics, factory, and perimeter control.

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Avassa for Industrial IoT: Real-World Use Cases & Case Study

In this case, we’ll examine a case description of the preceding challenges, key drivers, and accomplished benefits of implementing Avassa for Industrial IoT. We’ll also study an industrial machinery vendor that develops and sells high-precision industrial machines.

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A Full-Stack Industrial IoT & Edge Infrastructure Solution

Avassa provides a complete solution for deploying, monitoring, observing, and securing your IIoT edge system. With an open bundle of your hardware, selected IIoT services, and RHEL for Edge (or a Linux management solution of your choice), we support your value stream by making the management and operations of your IIoT system simple, efficient, and automated.

Avassa for Industrial Edge supports any containerized application. You can also utilize our deep multi-tenancy features to bring on second or third applications, as well as 3rd party applications with careful control over resource allocation.

Avassa for Industrial Edge supports all the major IoT services for data integration typically found in your IoT library.

Common services include: HiveMQ, COPA-DATA, Crosser or your choice of open source service.

Recommended reading: HiveMQ guest post – The Power of a Purpose-built Industrial IoT Tooling Stack

Avassa is your partner for next generation industrial edge solutions, with containers at heart. Learn more about our edge application operations and monitoring platform by visiting our Edge Platform page. Or take a self-guided tour of the platform in our Product Demo Tour.

Use Avassa for Industrial Edge along with a Linux distribution of your choice, such as Red Hat, Wind River, or Ubuntu.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Edge. Take a closer look at the integration in this recorded presentation or access our solution brief here.

You can also use Avassa for Industrial Edge with Ubuntu or your own Yocto version.

Avassa for Industrial Edge supports all hardware solutions for distributed Edge and IoT environments.

Common hardware solutions include: OnLogic, Lenovo, Advantech, ARM/X86, Raspberry Pi

Avassa for Industrial Edge: A Detailed Blueprint

While traditional IoT platforms focus primarly on data forwarding and connectivity, a modern platform should enable application-centricity at the edge. You need local and autonomous applications and a modern software toolchain. This is what Avassa for Industrial Edge gives you:

Avassa Control Tower diagram showcasing cloud integration, CI/CD, monitoring, and IoT system deployments with edge enforcers.

On-Premises IoT System Capabilities: Secure, Scalable & Efficient

The Edge Enforcer manages each of your IoT systems at the edge. It ensures that your Industrial IoT applications run well, can be remotely upgraded, migrate applications between hosts if needed, and monitor your applications and underlying OS resources. It provides full autonomy for your IoT systems even when locations are disconnected. It also enables remote support for your operations team. The Edge Enforcer also ensures security for your system; data and application traffic are encrypted, and only trusted hosts are allowed. Industrial IoT systems are, in many cases, involved in edge data management; the Edge Enforcer has built-in support for edge local data collection, processing, and forwarding.

Centralized IoT System Capabilities for Industrial Automation

With Avassa, you can manage all your Edge IoT systems from one central point, the Avassa Control Tower. Your operations team can monitor thousands of systems, and your application teams can deploy new features with a single operation. Through the Control Tower, you will also be able to remotely perform OS upgrades. It also provides central security management functions: defining and distributing secrets to edge sites, inspecting audit logs, locking down jeopardized sites, etc. Built for scale, it gracefully manages unstable networks and disconnected states towards edge sites and performs with tens of thousands of sites.

With Avassa for Industrial IoT you will solve the hard problems for the Edge part of your IIoT solution.

Edge Security Challenges & How Avassa Solves Them

Edge environments, especially in industrial IoT, face unique security threats—ranging from unauthorized access to data interception and system tampering. Avassa addresses these challenges head-on with built-in data encryption, real-time intrusion prevention, and secure remote lockdown capabilities.

Download the Avassa Security Overview to explore how we safeguard edge applications at scale.

Integrating Avassa with Existing Industrial IoT Infrastructure

Avassa integrates seamlessly with existing Industrial IoT infrastructure by offering broad compatibility with Linux-based systems, common industrial hardware platforms, and leading cloud services. Its lightweight footprint and container-native design make it easy to deploy alongside existing IoT solutions without disrupting operations, enabling manufacturers to modernize edge environments while preserving current investments.

See Avassa in Action: Industrial Edge Computing Demo

In this short demo, we exemplify the following IoT blueprint including:

  • HiveMQ Edge runs as a container in the edge systems to manage sensor data through IIoT protocols like Modbus and MQTT.
  • A containerized IoT application that performs system local data management, including aggregation and forwarding to the cloud.
  • Mosquitto is running in the cloud to receive MQTT data to perform central data analytics.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Industrial edge computing brings data processing closer to the machines and sensors generating it. This enables faster decision-making, better data privacy, offline resilience, and reduced bandwidth use—making it ideal for IIoT environments that require real-time responsiveness and reliability​.

Avassa provides end-to-end security with encrypted communications, authenticated access, and edge secret management. Secrets are never bundled in applications and are only shared one-way from the central system to the edge, minimizing exposure risks​.

Yes. Avassa works across a variety of physical and virtual environments and integrates with container registries, identity providers, and monitoring systems—enabling seamless adoption into existing IIoT setups​.

Avassa focuses on application-centric lifecycle management with deep multi-tenancy, built-in event streaming, zero-touch provisioning, and autonomous edge operations. It provides fine-grained deployment control and monitoring at scale across thousands of sites​.

Avassa enables over-the-air (OTA) management by centrally controlling application deployments and upgrades. It ensures reliable rollouts with strategies like canary and rolling deployments, even when connectivity is intermittent​​.

Industries with distributed operations like manufacturing, logistics, energy, and retail benefit most—especially those needing real-time local processing, strong security, and centralized control over remote sites​.

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