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Architecture
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It is best to think about Open Edge Insights for Industrial (Open EII) as a set of containers. Figure 2 depicts these containers as dashed lines around the components held by each container. The high-level functions of Open EII are data ingestion (video and time series), data storage, data analytics, as well as data and device management.


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      Figure 2.   Open EII Ingredients

This Open EII configuration is designed for deployment near to the site of data generation (for example, a PLC, robotic arm, tool, video camera, sensor, and so on.). The Open EII Docker* containers perform video and time-series data ingestion, real-time\ :sub:`1` analytics, and allow closed-loop control\ :sub:`2`. 
The following sections describe how to add new ingestion streams or algorithms within the Open EII Docker* containers, as well as how the external applications such as a Human Machine Interface (HMI) or a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) connects to Open EII.

.. note::  1. Real-time measurements, as tested by Intel, are as low as 50 milliseconds. 

.. note::  2. Open EII closed-loop control functions do not provide deterministic control.