OpenFog Consortium (now combined with the Industry IoT Consortium (IIC))

The OpenFog Consortium has been formed to solve some of today’s most common challenges in advanced deployments in the Internet of Things, 5G, and embedded artificial intelligence applications. These challenges can include high latency on the network, support of end point mobility, loss of connectivity, unpredictable bandwidth bottlenecks and distributed coordination of systems and clients. With an architecture that enables end-user clients or near-user edge devices to carry out computation, communication, control and storage, fog computing can enable rapid innovation, client-centric objectives, pooling of local resources, and real-time processing in cyber-physical systems. OpenFog's global membership of industry-university organizations are collaborating to create an open, interoperable and secure horizontal architecture for fog computing.