Introduction

Note

Intel® Edge Insights for Industrial (EII) was previously named Intel® Edge Insights Software (EIS). Remnants of the previous name still exist in some components. The name replacement is ongoing and will be completed in future releases.

Since its inception in early 2018, Intel® Edge Insights for Industrial (EII) has been focused on enabling the rapid deployment of solutions aimed at finding and revealing insights on compute devices outside data centers. The title of the software itself alludes to its intended purposes:

Edge :- systems existing outside of a data center.

Insights :- understanding relationships.

This software consists of a set of pre-integrated ingredients optimized for Intel® architecture. It includes modules that enable data collection, storage, and analytics for both time-series and video data, as well as the ability to act on these insights by sending downstream commands to tools or devices. The 2.x version of EII focuses on improving data ingestion and inference latency, as well as overall system modularity through a major messaging system overhaul.

This guide will detail the capabilities of EII ingredients and will serve as a reference for developers working with them. This guide is designed to enable developers to create custom solutions for their end customers. In this document, all the terminology will use Intel® Edge Insights for Industrial (EII) and Edge Insights software (EIS) interchangeably to refer to the same software, and will be fully updated in the next release.

Terminology

General Terminology

Term	Description
API	Application Programming Interface
DB	Database
DL	Deep Learning
ECN	Edge Compute Node
EII	Industrial Edge Insights for Industrial
Json	JavaScript Object Notation - Lightweight text format for storing and transporting data
M2M	Machine-to-Machine
ML	Machine Learning
MQTT	Message Queuing Telemetry Transport - Standard publish-subscribe-based messaging protocol
OPC-UA	OPC Unified Architecture - A popular protocol for communication between machines in industrial applications
OpenCV	Open Computer Vision - A standard library of computer vision functions
toolkit	SDK developed by Intel for optimizing deep learning-based algorithms running on Intel hardware.
RTSP	Real Time Streaming Protocol - Standard protocol used for streaming video
SI	System Integrator
TICK	Telegraf*, InfluxDB*, Chronograf*, Kapacitor*
UDF	User-defined Function – User written function for doing the custom functions on the input stream

Security-Related Terminology

Term	Description
BIOS	Basic Input and Output System
CA	Certificate Authority
CRL	Certificate Revocation List - List of certificates that have been revoked/invalidated before expiration by a CA
mTLS	Mutual TLS authentication - Two-way authentication of both ends of a network connection
PCR	Platform Configuration Registers - A feature within the TPM to cryptographically record state of software and configuration
Intel® PTT	Intel® Platform Trust Technology - Provides the capabilities of TPM 2.0 without dedicated hardware
TLS	Transport Layer Security - security protocol to encrypt and protect communication over a network
TPM 2.0	Trusted Platform Module - A standard for providing dedicated hardware-based security