Concepts

This section covers the concepts of thin-edge, starting with the problem to solve and presenting the building blocks used by thin-edge to build flexible solutions.

In order to build IoT Agents connected to cloud Digital Twins, thin-edge provides a set of versatile software components:

• The MQTT Bus to interconnect the entities making up a device: software components and hardware.
• Thin Edge JSON to be standardize the communication over the MQTT Bus.
• The Agent to implement the device management features.
• The Mapper to connect a device to the cloud.
• Extension Points to extend thin-edge to specific application domains, operating systems or hardware.

📄️ Overview

Thin-edge is an open-source IoT development toolbox

📄️ Typical IoT Agent

IoT agent

📄️ Digital Twin

Thin-edge provides the tools to build

📄️ MQTT Bus

Thin-edge uses a combination of MQTT and HTTP to coordinate the interactions

📄️ Thin Edge JSON

Thin Edge JSON is a lightweight format used in thin-edge.io to represent telemetry data:

📄️ The Agent

Thin-edge agent is a set of services that implement the device management operations on a device.

📄️ The Mapper

The tedge-mapper is a key concept to support multiple cloud providers.

📄️ Software Management

With thin-edge.io you can ease the burden of managing packages on your device.

📄️ Architecture FAQ

Design principles