[00:00] In this lesson, I'll provide an overview of Ignition Edge. Edge is a lightweight, lean version of Ignition designed for edge of network solutions. Edge can come pre-installed on a range of edge of network devices that are ready out of the box, but it can also be installed on a wide variety of operating systems such as Windows, Linux, and MacOS and with its ARM processor support can run on devices like a Raspberry Pi. We have specific zip installers on our downloads page, or Edge can also be installed via the normal Ignition installer. To do this via the installer, I just need to access the Gateway webpage after installation, and when I get to the first step of the commissioning process, I'll choose Edge from the different editions. From here, I'll accept the Inductive Automation EULA, set up my administrator user, and start the gateway. Once it's started, you may notice that the branding is different from a standard Ignition installation, but navigating the Gateway webpage will feel familiar. The Home and Status pages will look like they do on the Standard edition.

[01:05] You'll start noticing differences on the Config page. First, the overview page will list the different products available for Ignition Edge. Each product represents a set of features to resolve pain points at the edge of the network. These products have been bundled together into two product offerings: Ignition Edge IIoT, and Ignition Edge Panel. Ignition Edge IIoT automatically includes the EAM, Sync Services and Compute products, which will be installed with Edge. It also includes the MQTT transmission module and Opto22 and Emerson driver Modules. However, these will have to be manually installed and can be downloaded from the Strategic Partners tab of the Ignition downloads page. Ignition Edge panel includes everything that comes with Ignition Edge IIoT, but also provides visualization functionality for your HMIs. For more information on the functionality that can be achieved with these products, see the Edge Architecture's IU video or the corresponding page in our user manual. I'm currently in trial mode, but if I wanted to activate a license, I would do it in the same way as a standard installation by going to the licensing page.

[02:08] The only difference is that I would be activating an Edge specific license. As previously mentioned, Edge is a lightweight version of Ignition and that comes with certain limitations. For one, there's no section of the config page for setting up a database connection. Instead, edge has built in internal storage for tag history, the alarm journal, and audit logs. Data collected on Edge can then be synchronized to a central Ignition server when a connection is available. Additionally, Edge only allows for one project, which will already be created on installation. There's no option to add or import another project from the Gateway webpage, and no way to create a new project from the Designer. However, you can import project resources such as windows and views, and you can import tags as well, just like you would with a standard install. If you have another Edge Gateway, you can take a gateway backup and restore it between the two Edge gateways, but you cannot restore a gateway backup between standard and Edge gateways. While Edge Panel adds visualization to Edge, you must choose between Vision or Perspective, but not both.

[03:05] Vision will be the default active visualization module, but this can be changed by going to the Gateway Settings page and scrolling down to this dropdown. That wraps up the main distinctions between a standard installation of Ignition and Ignition Edge. Edge offers a lot of the same functionality as a standard install, but in a scaled down, lower cost version that makes it perfect for edge of the network architectures.