IoT edge device management and exchangeable secure transport layer for IoT devices

Offentlig prosjektsammendrag

qbee.io is a device management and remote access platform for IoT edge devices. In discussions with customers we get frequently asked if we could handle the secure transport layer from the application platform to a cloud backend as well. In this project we want to investigate if it is feasible to offer a flexible and exchangeable multi-cloud architecture for IoT application data such that cloud backend platforms can be exchanged. This way all commercial cloud providers are supported as well as open source solutions such as MQTT. By providing a simple UI we allow to hot-swap cloud services on edge devices thus breaking vendor lock-in and regulation challenges. In order to achieve this data needs to flow through a standard queue on the edge device. All this functionality is supported by a new second generation edge agent that will allow operation on platforms such as Linux, Windows, Android and more. The agent will have an extensive security concept as well as plugin capabilities to run customer specific configurations on the edge devices.