OPFWP001.0216 1 White Paper OpenFog Architecture Overview OpenFog Consortium Architecture Working Group www.OpenFogConsortium.org February 2016
OPFWP001.0216 2 Executive Summary The Internet of Things (IoT) is driving a digital transformation in all aspects of our lives and businesses. The growing number of connected devices is creating data at an exponential rate. Current “cloud-only” IoT architectures lead to infrastructure and connectivity limitations and slow adoption and reduce the value that can be realized via this transformational technology. Instead, selectively moving computation, communication, control, and decision making to the network edge where data is being generated is an emerging area of computer science and electrical engineering. This is called fog (or edge) computing. The OpenFog Architecture is a system-level arc
