The FAR-EDGE Automation Engine provides the means for executing automation workflows based on an appropriate Open API. It facilitates lightweight high-performance interactions with the field for the purpose of configuring and executing automation functionalities.
The Automation Engine provides field abstraction functionalities and therefore supports multiple ways and protocols for connecting to the field. It also facilitates the execution of complex automation workflows based on a system-of-systems approach.
It offers reliable and resilient functionalities at the edge of the plant network, based on Arrowhead’s powerful local cloud mechanism. Finally, it leverages a novel, collaborative blockchain-based approach to synchronizing and orchestrating automation workflows across multiple local clouds.
Will become available as open source components at:
