Kärntner Fog

Die derzeit aktiven Anwendungsfälle sind Kommunikation in Drohnenschwärmen, Drahtlose Industrierobotik, The currently active use cases are drone swarm communication, wireless industrial robotics, smart cities and virtual realities. Such distributed applications have the potential to attract many mobile participants who connect via smartphones, drones or robots, or a dedicated Internet of Things (IoT) terminal, generating huge amounts of data overall. Storing and processing this data in real time is important to ensure the required quality of service of the distributed applications and to guarantee a satisfactory end-user experience.

The traditional solution to this problem is to move the workload to a cloud data centre, which provides on-demand computing power and storage. Unfortunately, the latencies to cloud data centres are too high for the promises of 5G technology. These include latencies in the range of 1 to 4 ms at the user level and an enhanced mobile broadband network. Currently, latencies in the range of 5 to 7 ms are measured for the exoscale cloud. The Carinthian Fog use case has the solution for this. The concept of Fog computing decentralises the cloud hotspot at the edge of the network by using, for example, mobile edge devices such as routers, routing switches, etc.. These penetrate the 5G network domain and provide an attractive alternative to outsourcing data processing and computing tasks of the end IoT devices, keeping communication latencies low according to 5G standards. Carinthian Fog will provide a range of advanced high-level middleware services to support the development and operation of mobile and low-cost applications for a variety of resources with improved efficiency and less redundant work.