Release Notes

Intel® Edge Insights System 1.6

This release is majorly a security fix release on top of Intel® Edge Insights System 1.5. We recommended users to move to this version as it has security vulnerabilities fixes.

Note

As a prerequisite, please run commands: $ sudo rm -rf /opt/intel/eii (please backup the data if anything is required here) and sudo rm -rf /opt/esh/ if you had previous instance of Intel® Edge Insights System already installed before running ./edgesoftware install.

Changes

  • Fixed the security vulnerabilities found in the latest security scans and no functional code changes done.

  • The documentation would remain same as that of Intel® Edge Insights System 1.5 which is accessible at https://eiidocs.intel.com/1.5/. Please download latest 1.6 variants SKU from ESH site.

Intel® Edge Insights System 1.5

This release is majorly a bugfix release on top of Intel® Edge Insights System 1.0. Intel® Edge Insights System - Standard and Intel® Edge Insights System - Enhanced 1.5 SKUs are available for download at ESH site.

Changes

  • Bundled the pre-built helm charts in Intel® Edge Insights System - Enhanced package, enables single node helm deployment on native Kubernetes cluster.

  • Integrated latest software license library for all appliacable microservices like Config Manager Agent, Edge Video Analytics Microservice etc.

  • Config Manager Agent

    • Helm template changes added to enable license check and removed master node dependency

    • Trivy scan fixes done

  • Edge Video Analytics Microservice

    • Object tracking for UDFs implemented

    • Bug fixes:

      • AUTO plugin issue fixed

      • Force creation of EII user during build time even though the same user ID already exists in the image

      • Object tracking ID fixed

      • Helm template changes added to enable license check

    • Added tags to published metadata

    • Enabled Balluff unrestricted license only in Edge Insights System mode. Restriction (watermark post 200 frames) applies in standalone mode.

    • DL Streamer 2024.0.2 upgrade

    • Xiris App updates with support to multiple configurable options.

    • Fix EVA MQTT Publisher bug.

    • Improved the way gencamsrc handles defaulting of property values based on user input

  • Data Store

    • Helm template changes added to enable license check

    • Trivy scan fixes done

    • Bugfix: Fixed the frame drops issue and localhost access issue

  • Intel® Edge Data Collection

    • Bugfix: img extension reference in annotation json set to actual encoding

  • Time Series Analytics Services (Telegraf and Kapacitor)

    • Helm template changes added to enable license check

    • Trivy scan fixes done

    • Moved the config files volume mount to docker compose file

    • Removed conda dependency due to Anaconda licnese unavailability

    • Removed messagebus support for the timeseries analytics pipeline due to latest telegraf and kapacitor version upgrades

  • MultiModal Data Visualization Microservice

    • Helm template changes added to enable license check

    • Trivy scan fixes done

    • Fixed the GUI hang issue by adding the fix in Visualizer when it is not receiving frames from Edge Video Analytics Microservice

    • Updated draw_results flag behavior to enable/disable the processing of frames and drawing defects in config.json

  • Model Registry

    • Added capability to access the service’s current version

    • Bugfix: Incorrect created and last modified time returned by GET /models endpoint

  • Web Vision GUI

    • Trivy scan fixes, docker bench security fixes and checkmarx fixes done

    • Improvements:

      • Update message shown in camera preview screen

      • Changing error message text when license manager is not working

      • Enable user friendly names for camera

      • Stop camera preview containers

      • Check for camera usage not more than 1 in project

      • Added user config file for adding the login credentials. Please refer readme for details

      • Favicon’s ratio icon is changed

      • RTSP camera changes

      • Project name is fixed to 20 characters on display

      • Changing the RTSP and Xiris field name change

      • Geni Camera Pipeline changes, removed the hardcoded parameters like throughput-limit etc.,

      • Timer popup from LinearProgress to CircularProgress

      • Enabled “Auto” Device mode for UDF configuration

    • Bug fixes:

      • Fit all 4 inference previews in a window not requiring to scroll up

      • Fixed the operator login issue

      • Fixed the GUI hang issue when one of the camera streams is not working as expected

      • Fixed camera preview screen issue

  • Removed support of Intel® In-Band Manageability Framework

Known Issues

  • Memory leak seen with Edge Video Analytics Microservice on long runs due to anomalib UDF

  • Edge Video Analytics Microservice is not compliant with Intel® Geti™ UDFs created using Intel® Geti™ version earlier than 1.8

Intel® Edge Insights System 1.0

Intel® Edge Insights System is the new branding name for Intel® Edge Insights for Industrial. Intel® Edge Insights System - Standard and Intel® Edge Insights System - Enhanced SKUs are available for download at ESH site.

Changes

  • Intel® Edge Insights System packaging:

    • Support for different SKUs – Standard and Enhanced

    • License based microservice activation

    • Addition of new services/features

  • ConfigManager Agent:

    • Persisting EtcdUI/GUI changes across module restarts

    • Add REST API to facilitate config updates from GUI

    • SW license lib integrated

  • Edge Video Analytics Microservice:

    • Support for Anomalib, new version of Geti (v1.8)

    • DLStreamer/OpenVINO version upgrade

    • SDK upgrade (Balluff and Xiris)

    • Support for secured MQTT communication

    • SW license lib integrated

  • Data Store:

    • Added REST API interfaces

    • Bulk update and delete APIs support (ZMQ, HTTP, gRPC)

    • Local storage support on disk

    • SW license lib integrated

  • Data Collection as a service:

    • Annotating classification for available data using CVAT (Computer Vision Annotation Tool)

    • Remote data storage at fixed interval or on-demand

    • SW license lib integrated

  • Time Series Analytics Services (Telegraf and Kapacitor):

    • SW license lib integration w/ minor enhancements

  • Visualizer:

    • SW license lib integration w/ minor enhancements

  • Web Vision GUI:

    • Allow users to configure a select features of the modules

    • Enable camera preview for all supported camera types

    • Enable “File Ingestion” as input for project creation

    • Enable use of “Model Registry” for managing Geti models

    • Enable Watchdog feature

  • Following modules are removed from the Inte(R) Edge Insgihts System package:

    • OPCUA Data Export microservice

    • REST Data Export microservice

Known Issues

  • Memory leak seen with Edge Video Analytics Microservice on long runs due to anomalib UDF

  • Edge Video Analytics Microservice is not compliant with Intel® Geti™ UDFs created using Intel® Geti™ version earlier than 1.8

EII 4.1.0

Intel® Edge Insights for Industrial (EII) v4.1.0 release done on the microservice-based architecture foundation of EII v4.0.0 release by integrating upgraded standalone microservices. The release includes newer versions of Config Manager Agent(CMA), Data Store, Edge Video Analytics Microservice(EVAM) and Visualizer along with the security & other bug fixes. With Geti integration, users now can deploy models at the edge using EII UDFs (User defined function). This will allow for any Geti deployment to take advantage of EII’s AI pipeline reducing effort, increase efficiency, create a seamless experience for Edge AI analytics.

Changes

  • General security issues fixed. Recommendation is to use EII 4.1.0 instead of EII 4.0.0 release.

  • Integrated latest versions of Config Manager Agent, Data Store, Edge Video Analytics Microservice and Visualizer microservices

  • Data Store 4.2.1:

    • Moving out the DBs as separate containers for greater flexibility

    • Having single message bus and config manager interface at the Data Store level

    • Bringing in some configuration changes to better support configuration based on the data type (JSON/BLOB)

    • Demonstrate how easily one can add the new DB handler for new DB instance. By default, will have InfluxDB and MinIO

    • Adding support for read, write, update, list and delete functions over EII message bus request-response socket

    • Enable gRPC interface support just like EII message Bus

    • Added DS sample app - GUI app to exercise the functions in DS microservice

  • ConfigMgr Agent 4.1.1:

    • Moved the Etcd UI microservice into Config Manager Agent microservice​ (No separate EtcdUI microservice now)

  • Edge Video Analytics Microservice 1.1.1:

    • Upgrade to ubuntu 22.04 base image

    • Upgrade to DL Streamer 2022.3.0 version

    • Added GETi deployment sample, works with GETi v1.5.x SDK/server

    • Added metadata converter for GETi udf

    • Added unit tests and scripts for unit test integration

    • Consolidation of udf and gvapython scripts

    • Single pipeline configuration in EII mode

  • Timeseries: Telegraf and Kapacitor config changes to adapt DS v4.2.1(Docker Compose and Helm)

  • Following modules are removed from the EII package:

    • Universal Wellpad Controller (UWC)

    • VideoIngestion(VI) and VideoAnalytics(VA)

    • Custom UDF applications dependent on VI and VA.

    • Tools dependent on VI and VA like SWTriggerUtility, GigEConfig and JupyterNotebook

  • Removed custom download option in the ESH download page (https://edgesoftware.intel.com/industrialinsights) and moved the only component Manageability under custom download option to recommended download option

Known Issues

  • Web Deployment Tool:

    • PCB filter and classifier configs goes away when we delete and re-import in configure page

    • “A task in already in progress” issue appears when one logouts out and logs back in and tries to re-build in configure page. The workaround is to run sudo docker-compose down command from the [WORK_DIR]/edge_insights_industrial/Edge_Insights_for_Industrial_4.1.0/IEdgeInsights/build directory in the terminal.

EII 4.0.0

Starting from EII 4.0.0 release onwards, EII codebase and the pre-built docker images would be released under the Corporate Non Disclosure Agreement Edge Software Hub (ESH) Intel proprietary license only via Edge Software Hub at https://edgesoftware.intel.com/industrialinsights. EII 4.0.0 onwards, the source code will not be released to public github (https://github.com/open-edge-insights/). Also, the docker images will not be published at https://hub.docker.com/u/openedgeinsights.

Features

  • Enabled independent building and deployment of microservices

    • Simpler deployments or New EII services integration (This additional option is being provided only in DEV mode)

      In this option, the module microservice does not depend on the ConfigManagerAgent (CMA) microservice for configuration. All the microservice configs are directly read from the microservices respective config.json files. Below are the two APIs added in the ConfigMgr library to enable this additonal option.

      • Config file APIs

      • Config file watch

    • Complex deployments

      This is the existing use case driven approach of launching multiple microservices by using the use case yml file with the list of services. This deployment is supported both in DEV and PROD mode like earlier.

  • Enabled ETCD watch capability for video and timeseries services to auto-restart microservices when microservices config/interface changes are done via the EtcdUI interface

  • Timeseries pipeline improvement - provided volume mount option for loading the python udfs and other required configs in DEV mode for easy udf dev

  • Enabled Datastore Microservice, it adds support for running databases: InfluxDB* (vision and timeseries metadata) and MinIO* (image data)

  • Enhanced Edge Video Analytics Microservice (EVAM), is now the default Video analytics pipeline, which supports ingestion from diverse cameras (GenICam GigE and USB3 Cameras, RTSP Cameras and USB cameras), Gstreamer based UDF loader to run custom UDFs, image ingestion from storage & Geti SDK integration that enables usage of GETi generated deployment folder for model inference. All future EII new development for video capabilities will focus on EVAM instead of VI VA.

  • Distributing Universal Wellpad Controller (UWC) recipe as a use case with EII 4.0.0 package via ESH. Added the simpler deployments capabilities to independently build and deploy microservices just like EII services.

  • Added Helm charts improvements:

    • Enabled single helm charts (no separate provision and deployment helm charts)​

    • Added steps around usage of NFS based persistent volumes (helpful while accessing PVs across nodes in cluster) – needed to run in Anthos cluster environment

  • Added Web Deployment Tool improvements

    • New UI design

    • Added support for Edge Video Analytics Microservice for vision use case

    • Added support for time series use case

  • The following fixes are added to improve security hardening:

    • Fixed security-related findings from the Bandit* and the hadolint* tools.

    • Upgraded the third-party software components to the latest versions as appropriate.

    • Hardened the Docker container image by removing the usage of the privilege flag for the applicable Universal Wellpad Controller services and making the rootfs read-only for the Jupyter Notebook and the Config Manager Agent EII services.

Known Issues

  • Device provisioning not working as expected on ThingsBoard® portal with Intel|regsup| In-Band Manageability

  • Noticed Azure|regsup| manifests deployment doesn’t work in proxy network

  • NativePclIngestion pod fails to detect the Realsense camera in k8s cluster

  • Need to update the HOST IP to show video frames in Visualizer UI for video use case

  • NativeOneAPIIngestion container fails to work due to blur sample removal in the latest intel-basekit 2023.1.0

  • Web Deployment Tool UI issues:

    • Remote deployment always happens in DEV mode even when the user selects the PROD mode

    • During drag and drop of components in “Build and Configure” screen, one can notice little bit of alignment issues of the UI components

  • UWC use case install not supported in the PRC region from the ESH page

  • Web Deployment Tool modules are not available for download in the “Custom Configuration” flow from the ESH page

Open EII v3.0.1

Fixes

  • General security fixes have been applied. Please use the EII v3.0.1 docker images at https://hub.docker.com/u/openedgeinsights.

  • Added the prerequisite step in README.md of having the openssh-server installed for the Web Deployment Tool backend service

  • Fixed OpcuaExport docker build issue (fixed the mbedtls path issue in the Dockerfile). To avoid this issue, use the openedgeinsights/ia_opcua_export:3.0 from the Docker Hub.

  • Fixed Kapacitor launch issue by updating the conda_requirements.txt. To avoid this issue, use the openedgeinsights/ia_kapacitor:3.0 from the Docker Hub.

Known Issues

  • While bringing up the ia_azure_bridge service, protobuf related issue can occur. In this scenario, add protobuf==3.20.2 in the [WORKDIR]/IEdgeInsights/AzureBridge/modules/AzureBridge/requirements.txt file and rebuild the ia_azure_bridge docker image. To avoid this issue, use the openedgeinsights/ia_azure_bridge:3.0 from the Docker Hub.

  • While executing on the Alder Lake 12th Gen Intel(R) Core Processors, the VideoIngestion service can crash with the Gstreamer VAAPI element error. In this scenario, to install the required GPU drivers, make the following changes from line 155 through 157 in the [WORKDIR]/IEdgeInsights/VideoIngestion/Dockerfile and rebuild the ia_video_ingestion image:

    # Installing Intel® Graphics Compute Runtime for OpenCL™
# RUN /bin/bash -c "source /opt/intel/openvino/bin/setupvars.sh && \
#                  cd /opt/intel/openvino/install_dependencies && \
#                  yes | ./install_NEO_OCL_driver.sh --auto || true"
RUN apt update && apt-get install -y gpg-agent wget
RUN wget -qO - https://repositories.intel.com/graphics/intel-graphics.key | gpg --dearmor --output /usr/share/keyrings/intel-graphics.gpg
RUN echo 'deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/intel-graphics.gpg] https://repositories.intel.com/graphics/ubuntu focal-legacy main' | \
    tee  /etc/apt/sources.list.d/intel.gpu.focal.list
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install \
    yes | intel-opencl-icd --auto || true \
    intel-level-zero-gpu level-zero \
    intel-media-va-driver-non-free libmfx1 libmfxgen1 libvpl2

Open EII v3.0

Open Edge Insights System (Open EII) v3.0 is a major release from the previous release of v2.6.x. In this open-source release, the following features have been added and dropped. In addition to that, many small fixes and general improvements are also included this release.

New Features

Dropped Features

The following features have been dropped in OEI v3.0 release:

  • docker-compose support to do multi-node deployment (Helm charts way of multi-node deployment on k8s cluster to be continued)

  • ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) integration with Open EII is discontinued

Known Issues

  • Grafana video use case helm templates support is not provided

  • Edge Video Analytics Microservice helm templates support is not provided.

  • Python sample apps for Alpine OS support is not provided