Edgine, A Runtime System for IoT Edge Applications

The diffusion of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies has paved the way to new applications and services. In this context, developers need tools for efficient design and implementation. This paper proposes Edgine (Edge engine), a cross-platform open-source edge computing system. The system is the edge computing extension of Measurify, a cloud Application Programming Interface (API) dedicated to the collection and processing of measurements from the field. Particularly, Edgine can be remotely programmed to perform various kinds of processing on the field sensors’ data streams, thus allowing optimizing resource utilization, and reducing latency, bandwidth, transmission energy and computational burden on the cloud side. This paper presents three simple application cases that show effectiveness and versatility of the tool. To the best of our knowledge this is the first end-to-end development system dedicated to IoT measurements, open source, programmable on both the edge and cloud side, platform independent and non-cloud-vendor locked.