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Industrial Edge Device Kit Services

The Industrial Edge Device Kit allows you to extend the Industrial Edge Ecosystem with your own devices. It provides the components needed on the device, as well as the necessary interfaces in the Industrial Edge Management and Industrial Edge Hub to customize the device management processes according to the needs of your devices.

For a "hands-on" tutorial on how to get started with Industrial Edge components, refer to the gRPC section. There is a simple gRPC service implemented in various programming languages, currently in:

The prerequisites regarding hardware and software needed for a successful integration of the Industrial Edge components on your device are detailed under Prerequisites.

The Industrial Edge Runtime and the operating system are linked via the IE Device Kit API. You can find a general overview of this API under IE Device Kit API and API specifications under APIs.

Industrial Edge Devices must implement an onboarding process that allows the Edge Device to connect to an Industrial Edge Management instance. This process is described in detail in the Onboard process subsection. In addition, Device Builders may choose to implement additional optional processes. Currently supported are:

Device Builders may also indicate the observed and reported directories and mountpoints. Moreover, device specific limits regarding resources may also be specified.