Getting started with IBM Edge Computing for Devices

Review the following topics to help you get started with IBM Edge Computing for Devices, including how to install the required software on your servers, and manage your edge software and services.

For more information about installing the required software for IBM Edge Computing for Devices, see the following topics:

• Installing IBM Edge Computing for Devices infrastructure
• Installing the Horizon agent on your edge machine

Examples

Use these examples in the order shown below, as they are intended as sequential processes.

To view working examples of IBM Edge Computing for Devices, see the following topics:

1. Registering your edge machine with the helloworld example A minimal "Hello, world." example to introduce you to IBM Edge Computing for Devices deployment patterns.

2. Host CPU load percentage An example deployment pattern that consumes CPU load percentage data and makes the available through IBM Event Streams.

3. Software-defined radio A fully featured example that consumes radio station audio, extracts speech, and converts the extracted speech into text. The example completes sentiment analysis on the text and makes the data and results available through a user interface where you can view the details of the data for each edge node. Use this example to learn more about edge processing.

For a better understanding of the technology used in IBM Edge Computing for Devices, see the following topics:

• Edge software management
• Discovery and negotiation
• Security and privacy