OpenFog Consortium
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| founded = 19 November 2015
| founders = *Cisco Systems
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Matt Vasey
Treasurer
Brent Hodges
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The OpenFog Consortium (sometimes stylized as Open Fog Consortium) was a consortium of high tech industry companies and academic institutions across the world aimed at the standardization and promotion of fog computing in various capacities and fields.
The consortium was founded by Cisco Systems, Intel, Microsoft, Princeton University, Dell, and ARM Holdings in 2015 and now has 57 members across the North America, Asia, and Europe, including Forbes 500 companies and noteworthy academic institutions.[https://web.archive.org/web/20181214213946/https://www.openfogconsortium.org/about-us/#member-companies OpenFog Consortium - About Us: Members]
The OpenFog consortium merged with the Industrial Internet Consortium, now the Industry IoT Consortium, on January 31, 2019.{{Cite web |last=Industrial Internet Consortium, Press release |date=2019-01-31 |title=The Industrial Internet Consortium And Openfog Consortium Join Forces |url=https://www.iiconsortium.org/press-room/01-31-19.htm |access-date=2019-07-04 |website=www.iiconsortium.org}}
History
OpenFog was created on November 19, 2015,{{Cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2016/04/18/is-fog-computing-the-next-big-thing-in-internet-of-things/2/#1971ac3a34c9|title=Is Fog Computing the Next Big Thing in the Internet of Things|last=Janakiram|first=MSV|date=18 April 2016|work=Forbes Magazine|access-date=18 April 2016}}{{Cite news|url=http://rethink-iot.com/2015/11/20/usual-suspects-form-openfog-consortium-to-push-fog-computing-iot/|title=Usual suspects form OpenFog Consortium|last=Alex|first=Davies|date=20 November 2015|work=ReThink Internet of Thing Newsletter|access-date=5 April 2016}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.rtinsights.com/what-is-fog-computing-open-consortium/|title=Fog Computing: a New IoT Architecture?|last=McKendrick|first=Joe|work=RT Insights|access-date=6 April 2016}}{{Cite news|url=http://cacm.acm.org/news/195643-fog-computing-harnesses-personal-devices-to-speed-wireless-networks/fulltext|title=Communications of the ACM: Fog Computing Harnesses Personal Devices to Speed Wireless Networks|last=Princeton University|first=Submission to ACM|date=18 December 2015|work=Association for Computing Machinery|access-date=5 April 2016}} by ARM Holdings,{{Cite web|url=https://community.arm.com/docs/DOC-10931|title=The Open Fog Consortium and ARM|website=community.arm.com|access-date=2016-04-05}} Cisco Systems,{{cite web|title=Cisco Corporate Blog|url=http://blogs.cisco.com/innovation/openfog-consortium-announcement|website=OpenFog Consortium: An Ecosystem to Accelerate End-to-End IoT Solutions|date=19 November 2015|publisher=Cisco|access-date=5 April 2016}} Dell,{{Cite web|url=http://en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/direct2dell/b/direct2dell/archive/2015/11/19/accelerating-iot-dell-and-other-leaders-create-the-open-fog-consortium|title=Accelerating IoT: Dell and Other Leaders Create the Open Fog Consortium|website=en.community.dell.com|access-date=2016-04-05}} Intel,{{Cite news|url=http://www.telecomtv.com/articles/cloud/wandering-in-the-fog-the-industry-doubles-down-on-distributed-cloud-13045/|title=Clearing the fog: the industry doubles down on distributed cloud|access-date=5 April 2016}} Microsoft,{{cite web|title=Microsoft helps accelerate IoT with new OpenFog Consortium|url=http://blogs.microsoft.com/iot/2015/11/19/microsoft-helps-accelerate-iot-with-new-openfog-consortium/|website=Microsoft IoT Blog|publisher=Microsoft|access-date=5 April 2016}} and Princeton University.{{cite web|title='Fog' computing harnesses personal devices to speed wireless networks|url=http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S45/01/91M25/|website=www.princeton.edu|publisher=Princeton University|access-date=5 April 2016}}
The idea for a consortium centered on the advancement and dissemination of fog computing was thought up by Helder Antunes, a Cisco executive with a history in IoT, Mung Chiang, then a Princeton University professor and now President of Purdue University,{{Cite web |last=Service |first=Purdue News |title=Purdue University names Chiang its next president |url=https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2022/Q2/purdue-university-names-chiang-its-next-president.html |access-date=2023-09-16 |website=www.purdue.edu |language=en}} and Dr. Tao Zhang, a Cisco Distinguished Engineer and CIO for the IEEE Communications Society then and now a manager at the National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST). The project was executed from concept to launch by Armando Pereira at PVentures Group, a Silicon Valley–based high-tech consulting firm.[http://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/openfog-consortium-welcomes-more-carrier-input-as-it-collaborates-etsi Fierce Wireless - OpenFog Consortium welcomes more carrier input as it collaborates with ETSI]
OpenFog released its reference architecture for fog computing on February 13, 2017.[http://www.iotjournal.com/articles/view?15674 IoT Journal - OpenFog Consortium Releases Reference Architecture for Fog Computing]
The Fog World Congress 2017, with Dr. Tao Zhang as its General Chair, was hosted in October 2017 by OpenFog, in conjunction with the IEEE Communications Society, as the first congress devoted to fog computing.[http://www.iotevolutionworld.com/iiot/articles/435187-fog-world-congress-keynote-faculty-runs-deep-iot.htm IoT Evolution World - Fog World Congress Keynote Faculty Runs Deep in IoT Experience]
Administration
File:Openfog x METI agreement ceremony.jpg (METI)]]
The OpenFog Consortium was governed by its board of directors, which is chaired by Cisco Senior Director Helder Antunes. The board of directors is made up of 11 seats, each representing one of the following companies and institutions: ARM, AT&T, Cisco, Dell, Intel, Microsoft, Princeton University, IEEE,{{Cite news|url=http://www.iothub.com.au/news/openfog-consortium-bolsters-its-ranks-418152|title=OpenFog Consortium Bolsters Its Ranks|last=Gutierrez|first=Peter|date=14 April 2016|access-date=13 April 2016}} GE, ZTE and Shanghai Tech University.
The consortium's general membership comprised 13 academic members: Aalto University, Arizona State University, California Institute of Technology, Georgia State University,{{Cite news|url=http://sensorweb.cs.gsu.edu/?q=news|title=GSU Joins the OpenFog Consortium|date=1 February 2016|access-date=5 April 2016}} National Chiao Tung University, National Taiwan University, Shanghai Research Centre for Wireless Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Southern California, University of Pisa, Vanderbilt University, Wayne State University,{{Cite news|url=https://engineering.wayne.edu/news.php?id=18941|title=Wayne State University Joins OpenFog Consortium|date=5 March 2016|access-date=5 April 2016}} and 20 additional members: Hitachi, Internet Initiative Japan, Itochu, Kii, Nebbiolo, PrismTech,{{Cite news|url=http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160204005748/en/PrismTech-Joins-OpenFog-Consortium-Enable-Efficient-Edge|title=PrismTech Joins the OpenFog Consortium|date=5 February 2016|access-date=5 April 2016}} NEC, NGD Systems, NTT Communications, OSIsoft, Real-time Innovations,{{Cite news|url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rti-joins-openfog-consortium-early-130000093.html|title=RTI Joins OpenFog Consortium|date=22 February 2016|access-date=5 April 2016}} relayr, Sakura Internet, Stichting imec Nederland, Toshiba,{{Cite news|url=http://www.mynewsdesk.com/toshiba-global/news/toshiba-joins-openfog-consortium-to-help-enable-fog-computing-154919|title=Toshiba Joins OpenFog Consortium|date=10 March 2016|access-date=5 April 2016}} TTT Tech, Fujitsu, FogHorn Systems, TTTech and MARSEC.
Published work
The OpenFog Consortium published the white paper, "OpenFog Reference Architecture".OpenFog Reference Architecture
for Fog Computing https://www.iiconsortium.org/pdf/OpenFog_Reference_Architecture_2_09_17.pdf. Accessed Nov 15 2020. This document outlines the eight pillars of an OpenFog architecture:Security; Scalability; Open; Autonomy; Programmability; RAS (reliability, availability and serviceability); Agility; and Hierarchy. It also incorporates a glossary for fog computing terms.
In July 2018, the IEEE Standards Association announced it had adopted the OpenFog Reference Architecture as the first standard for fog computing.{{cite web |url=https://standards.ieee.org/ieee/1934/7137/ |title=IEEE 1934-2018 - IEEE Standard for Adoption of OpenFog Reference Architecture for Fog Computing |website=IEEE |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728044512/http://standards.ieee.org/findstds/standard/1934-2018.html |archive-date=2018-07-28}}
References
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