Multi-Edge with Multi-Cloud solution

The multi-edge with multi-cloud configuration is ideal for OEMs with a large, distributed installation base across multiple facilities, supporting high-frequency data acquisition.

Individual Edges, one per machine, contain the microservices dedicated to data acquisition and processing. Data is also locally buffered in individual edges to ensure there is no data loss in case of an internet connection outage.

There are two cloud layers:

The customer-owned cloud layer, which includes authentication services and data storage as SAS services. The specifics of the services depend on the cloud provider chosen by the customer.
The 40Factory-owned cloud layer, which contains the Back-end and Front-end microservices of the application, periodically updated by 40Factory.

This system is efficient in terms of data sampling speed and resilient to potential network issues or internet outages and offers the advantage of an application that is always accessible from anywhere.

During the installation phase, MAT Control Center is used for the configuration installation on the individual Edges. Installation can be automated via an internet connection by leveraging the Portainer service, installed as a Docker service on the edges (agent) that communicate with the Portainer instance of 40Factory in the Cloud for installation and updates.