SEAWALL: Seamless Low Latency Cloud Platforms for the Industry 4.0

Abstract

The paper presents the SEAWALL platform enabling heterogeneous data acquisition and low-latency processing for the Industry 4.0, developed within the homonymous project founded by the Italian BIREX industrial consortium. The architecture features cutting-edge technologies (such as Kubernetes, ISTIO, KubeEdge, W3C WoT), in order to support the seamless orchestration of workloads among the nodes of a cloud-edge continuum in QoS-aware scenarios where the latency requirement of the anomaly detection must be continuously assessed. The paper presents the industrial use-case from the SEAWALL project and the components of the cloud/edge architecture.