In the fast-paced and competitive transportation industry, companies face the dual challenge of modernizing their logistics and embracing digital transformation. Edge computing emerges as a pivotal technology in this sector,…
The edge solution space is developing increasingly fast. As a CTO I get fewer questions along the lines of “why edge?” and increasingly along the lines of “tell me how…
I will kick off this article with a quotation from a conference I once attended. There was a discussion around the complexity of a large open source project with many…
There are many reasons for running applications at the edge. Some of the ones we hear often include latency, bandwidth, and security requirements. But another very common reason, that might…
IoT as a term and technology has existed for decades and the use of an IoT Platform is consequently widely spread. It has been widely deployed in the medical, transportation,…
All Avassa operations are available over a REST API, see the reference documentation. One way of learning the REST API is to use the popular Postman tool. Before continuing with…
The Avassa Edge Platform supports mounting devices into applications. Devices in this context are (typically) hardware that is attached to a host in an Avassa site. Examples are USB devices,…
When you have built an application for the edge, it’s time to deploy it to specific sites and hosts with certain characteristics. This would be tedious if you would have…
Most edge applications have some parts of the application running at edge sites and other parts running in a central location. Take the example of a camera-based analytics application. Image…
In the Avassa system, an application specification defines the container structure and associated application-specific configuration and secrets. You want to aim for keeping one application specification per application. The reason…