CN113259343A - 5G white box gateway device based on edge computing technology - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a 5G white box gateway device based on edge computing technology, which comprises: the system comprises a unified arranging module, a unified operation and maintenance module, a virtual interconnection module, a hardware decoupling module, an AI algorithm module, a virtual private network module, a flexible deployment module, a service guarantee module and a safety protection module. The invention can better support the real-time intelligent processing and execution of local services by the analysis of the real-time and short-period data focused by the edge calculation, because the edge calculation is closer to the user, the data filtering and analysis are realized at the edge node, the working efficiency is improved, a part of simple data processing is carried out by the edge node when the cloud transmission is carried out, the response time of equipment is further realized, the data flow from the equipment to the cloud is reduced, the intellectualization is realized, and the use cost is reduced by the combination of the cloud calculation and the edge calculation.

Description

5G white box gateway device based on edge computing technology

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of 5G white box gateway devices, in particular to a 5G white box gateway device based on an edge computing technology.

Background

With the rapid landing of 5G applications and the constant popularization of AI technologies, the edge computing technology of AIOT is gradually and widely serving various fields such as industrial manufacturing, transportation, environmental protection, meteorology, education, power grid, energy, public utilities and the like, and covering the technology frontiers of unmanned driving and the like.

The AIoT edge calculation aims at performing data operation, analysis, learning, storage and solving of data interaction between the equipment and the cloud end, real-time performance, accuracy, data rate, safety and other enabling technologies near the peripheral Internet of things equipment. The edge calculation has natural distributed characteristics. The efficiency and real-time performance of edge information processing are determined. The data can be more quickly and effectively used by the user. Meanwhile, as a node on one side closest to an object, the access capability of massive heterogeneous equipment endows the current Internet of things with wide end-to-end connection capability.

The existing 5G white-box gateway is high in use cost, low in work efficiency of intelligent processing and execution of information data, prolonged in work realization, increased in data flow from equipment to a cloud end, and low in intelligent degree. In view of the related technical problems, no effective solution has been proposed at present.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention provides a 5G white box gateway device based on an edge computing technology, aiming at solving the technical problems in the prior art, aiming at better supporting real-time intelligent processing and execution of local services through analysis of edge computing focused real-time and short-period data.

In order to achieve the purpose, the invention provides the following technical scheme: a 5G white-box gateway device based on edge computing technology, comprising:

the uniform arrangement module integrates Kubernets/Docker equal-container technology and provides a uniform arrangement and deployment function;

the unified operation and maintenance module is used for unified alarming and state monitoring;

a virtual interconnect module that employs advanced SDN technology;

the hardware decoupling module is used for enabling the virtual interconnection module to adopt NFV cloud computing and virtualization technology;

the AI algorithm module adopts an advanced algorithm and a deep learning technology to realize local reasoning calculation under an edge service scene such as image, video and AI application;

the system comprises a virtual private network module, a data processing module and a data processing module, wherein the virtual private network module separates a physical network and a logic network of enterprise networking through an SD-WAN technology;

the flexible deployment module adopts a full-automatic deployment mechanism, zero-contact maintenance and full-automatic strategy synchronous updating;

the service guarantee module supports multi-access, multi-link and multi-transmission network technologies, ensures the effectiveness of link backup and the reliability of key services, and reduces the dependence on a traditional private network;

the security protection module integrates a firewall function and a DPI technology, can continuously monitor the type of flow on a network through centralized strategy arrangement and cloud management, identifies the service type of a sensor, analyzes security behaviors and marks a label for equipment;

preferably, the system also comprises a software part and a hardware part;

the software part comprises:

(1) and (3) developing a language:

C/C + +: the system is used for developing a bottom layer/middle layer service system running on a gateway operating system;

Lua/Python: the system is used for developing a middle layer/upper layer service system running on a gateway operating system and is used as a glue language to be matched with a bottom layer to realize upper layer logic of various system service modules;

Java/PHP: the system is used for developing a gateway remote management platform;

(2) operating the system:

FreeRTOS: as a core operating system of a single chip microcomputer part;

linux: a core operating system as part of the edge compute processor;

(3) interconnection protocol:

HTTP: HTTP is used as a bottom protocol of local/remote Web management, graphical user operation is realized by deploying HTTP servers in a browser, a platform and a gateway, and friendly management of the gateway is realized;

FTP/Samba: as a bottom protocol of remote file transmission/sharing, file uploading and downloading and local area network sharing are realized;

MQTT/COAP: as a communication protocol between the Lora/Zigbee wireless network, the gateway, and the server platform;

(4) a software framework:

QT: as a graphical interface application development framework on an edge computing system;

OpenCV: as an image vision processing underlying framework on the edge computing system;

YoloV 3: as a fast and efficient moving object detector;

tensorflow: the method can be used as a calculation frame of a deep learning open source for processing a large amount of data, quickly establishing a mathematical model and completing the establishment of a scene-based edge calculation analysis algorithm;

and (4) SSM: SSM (Spring + Spring MVC + MyBatis) is a basic framework in a web project, belongs to a development suite of JAVAEE, and corresponds to three layers of java web development, namely a web layer (Spring mvc), a service layer (Spring) and a DAO layer (MyBatis);

the hardware portion includes a circuit portion, the circuit portion including:

the hardware schematic diagram is the core of hardware circuit design, and the common work flow of the hardware schematic diagram is the application and verification of appropriate device model selection and necessary calculation and analysis for parameter collocation and simulation tools, and the technologies are finally expressed by a graphical language through drawing the schematic diagram;

the PCB circuit board realizes the function of a hardware circuit by taking a hardware schematic diagram module as a basis.

Preferably, the communication device further comprises a communication protocol, wherein the communication protocol comprises:

(1) the communication protocol agreed between the hardware subsystems exists in two forms of AT character instruction set and HEX byte frame;

(2) standardized electronic information bottom layer or upper layer communication protocol;

preferably, the system further comprises an embedded software development module, wherein the embedded software development module comprises:

(1) single chip microcomputer-embedded software: mainly the bottom IO, Lora and Zigbee communication;

(2) processor-embedded software: mainly the bottom level development closely related to the operating system;

(3) processor-application software: is responsible for high-level application services.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:

(1) the invention relates to a 5G white-box gateway device based on an edge computing technology, which meets the technical application management of remote control, data analysis, image recognition, AI algorithm and the like of a customer on edge computing resources by customizing a hardware function through a cloud platform, focuses on the analysis of real-time and short-period data by edge computing, and can better support the real-time intelligent processing and execution of local services;

(2) the invention relates to a 5G white-box gateway device based on an edge computing technology, which supports safe access of massive edge nodes, solves containerized application management and hardware abstract decoupling management through an edge AIOT intelligent control self-learning technology, enables customers to neglect hardware differentiation, defines edge AI application in a self-defining manner, and provides complete edge cloud cooperative integrated service for users;

(3) the invention relates to a 5G white-box gateway device based on an edge computing technology, which realizes the management of cloud to field service cooperation and the like.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the AIOT edge calculation structure of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of the hardware framework of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Examples

Referring to fig. 1-2, the present invention provides a technical solution of a 5G white-box gateway device based on edge computing technology: a 5G white-box gateway device based on edge computing technology, comprising:

the uniform arrangement module integrates Kubernets/Docker equal-container technology and provides a uniform arrangement and deployment function;

the unified operation and maintenance module is used for unified alarming and state monitoring, and particularly reduces the operation and maintenance difficulty and cost of edge resource management;

a virtual interconnect module that employs advanced SDN technology; specifically, a series of technical innovations such as combination of a terminal and a cloud platform and the like are adopted, so that a physical network and a logic network of enterprise networking are separated, and a final user of the network faces to the logic network which is relatively independent of the position, resources and equipment of the physical network, so that planning, management, scheduling and operation and maintenance of the related network are greatly simplified;

the hardware decoupling module is used for enabling the virtual interconnection module to adopt NFV cloud computing and virtualization technology; specifically, the virtualization technology can decompose hardware equipment such as general computation, storage, network and the like into various virtual resources, realize application to hardware decoupling, realize network functions and dynamic flexible deployment as required, and the cloud computing technology can realize application elasticity or even matching of resources and service loads, so that the utilization rate of the resources is improved, and the response speed of the system is ensured;

the AI algorithm module adopts an advanced algorithm and a deep learning technology to realize local reasoning calculation under an edge service scene such as image, video and AI application;

the system comprises a virtual private network module, a data processing module and a data processing module, wherein the virtual private network module separates a physical network and a logic network of enterprise networking through an SD-WAN technology; particularly, the planning, management, scheduling, operation and maintenance of related networks are greatly simplified;

the flexible deployment module adopts a full-automatic deployment mechanism, zero-contact maintenance and full-automatic strategy synchronous updating; particularly, the deployment is simpler, quicker and more efficient;

the service guarantee module supports multi-access, multi-link and multi-transmission network technologies, ensures the effectiveness of link backup and the reliability of key services, and reduces the dependence on a traditional private network;

the security protection module integrates a firewall function and a DPI technology, can continuously monitor the type of flow on a network through centralized strategy arrangement and cloud management, identifies the service type of a sensor, analyzes security behaviors and marks a label for equipment; specifically, real-time network attacks are detected quickly, a primary end-to-end safety protection isolation function is provided for a network, and end-to-end visualization of the flow of the internet of things and a service-level safety strategy are ensured.

Wherein, also include software part and hardware part;

the software part comprises:

(1) and (3) developing a language:

C/C + +: the system is used for developing a bottom layer/middle layer service system running on a gateway operating system; specifically, for the service application with very sensitive code processing delay/running efficiency, the use of C/C + + is the only choice;

Lua/Python: the system is used for developing a middle layer/upper layer service system running on a gateway operating system and is used as a glue language to be matched with a bottom layer to realize upper layer logic of various system service modules; specifically, the Lua/Python has the advantages of high development efficiency, strong expansibility, cross-platform performance and the like;

Java/PHP: the system is used for developing a gateway remote management platform; specifically, Java/PHP is used as two most popular back-end development languages in the industry, PHP is responsible for a WEB layer, is visual and rapid, supports hot deployment, is responsible for a business and data logic layer, is stable and reliable, has high operation efficiency, combines the Java and the data logic layer to exert respective advantages, and is suitable for developing B/S enterprise programs;

(2) operating the system:

FreeRTOS: as a core operating system of a single chip microcomputer part; specifically, the embedded real-time operating system (RTOS) can more reasonably and effectively utilize the resources of a CPU (central processing unit), and ensure the real-time performance and reliability of the system, while the FreeRTOS is a completely free operating system, has the characteristics of source code disclosure, portability, tailorability and flexible scheduling strategy, is suitable for processing the bottom-layer basic services such as external interface input and output, wireless communication and the like in a project, and ensures the real-time performance and reliability of the services;

linux: a core operating system as part of the edge compute processor; particularly, Linux has a strong memory management and process management scheme, a security mode based on authority, a support shared library, an authenticated drive model, good support for hardware and drive, and a complete industry ecology;

(3) interconnection protocol:

HTTP: HTTP is used as a bottom protocol of local/remote Web management, graphical user operation is realized by deploying HTTP servers in a browser, a platform and a gateway, and friendly management of the gateway is realized;

FTP/Samba: as a bottom protocol of remote file transmission/sharing, file uploading and downloading and local area network sharing are realized;

MQTT/COAP: as a communication protocol between the Lora/Zigbee wireless network, the gateway, and the server platform; specifically, MQTT and CoAP are both open standards, are more suitable for restricted environments than HTTP, provide asynchronous transfer mechanisms, and can provide reliable transfer of messages with restricted hardware performance/remote device/network conditions;

(4) a software framework:

QT: as a graphical interface application development framework on an edge computing system; particularly, the method has the advantages of excellent cross-platform characteristics, object-oriented property, strong API function, support of 2D/3D graphic rendering and the like;

OpenCV: as an image vision processing underlying framework on the edge computing system; particularly, the method has a plurality of general algorithms in the aspects of image processing and computer vision, and can greatly improve the development efficiency of the edge detection algorithm;

YoloV 3: as a fast and efficient moving object detector; specifically, the method is a preferred framework for video structural analysis of intelligent city management (illegal stall/parking), intelligent traffic (red light running snapshot, traffic flow analysis) and the like;

tensorflow: the method can be used as a calculation frame of a deep learning open source for processing a large amount of data, quickly establishing a mathematical model and completing the establishment of a scene-based edge calculation analysis algorithm;

and (4) SSM: SSM (Spring + Spring MVC + MyBatis) is a basic framework in a web project, belongs to a development suite of JAVAEE, and corresponds to three layers of java web development, namely a web layer (Spring mvc), a service layer (Spring) and a DAO layer (MyBatis); specifically, the encoding can be reduced, and the code normalization and reusability can be improved;

the hardware portion includes a circuit portion, the circuit portion including:

the hardware schematic diagram is the core of hardware circuit design, and the common work flow of the hardware schematic diagram is the application and verification of appropriate device model selection and necessary calculation and analysis for parameter collocation and simulation tools, and the technologies are finally expressed by a graphical language through drawing the schematic diagram; specifically, the basic requirements of the schematic diagram design format are as follows: clear, accurate, standard and easy to read. Firstly, all the function blocks need to be reasonably arranged, the whole schematic diagram needs to be evenly arranged, and the situation that some places are crowded and some places are sparse is avoided; secondly, all functional parts are modularized as much as possible (such as a stepping communication module, a power supply module, an MCU core board module and the like) so as to facilitate the resource sharing of similar products;

the PCB circuit board realizes the function of a hardware circuit by taking a hardware schematic diagram module as a basis; specifically, the technical specification requirements of producibility, testability, safety regulation, EMC, and the like are met, so that the process, technology, quality and cost advantages of the product can be established by the certification standard specified by the country such as 3C, SRRC.

Wherein, still include communication protocol, communication protocol includes:

(1) the communication protocol agreed between the hardware subsystems exists in two forms of AT character instruction set and HEX byte frame; specifically, for example, between single-chip microcomputers, between a single-chip microcomputer and a processor system, between an NB/4G/5G/Lora/Zigbee communication module and a single-chip microcomputer or a processor system; when the hardware subsystem or the module works cooperatively, the communication protocol support is needed, and if the existing standard does not exist, the realization is needed to be established by self;

(2) standardized electronic information bottom layer or upper layer communication protocol; specifically, for example, TCP/IP, HTTP, MQTT and the like are generally used for communication between a device-cloud platform, a device-browser/client, and a device-downlink internet of things device, and an extensible control and data field table is generally developed and defined by itself on the basis of the above protocol carrier.

The system further comprises an embedded software development module, wherein the embedded software development module comprises:

(1) single chip microcomputer-embedded software: mainly the bottom IO, Lora and Zigbee communication; specifically, basic services such as external input and output, wireless communication and the like are simply processed in a multitask mode through a FreeRTOS kernel of a single chip microcomputer and then are communicated with a microprocessor system through a serial interface, so that low coupling, intensification and modularization among subsystems are achieved, meanwhile, an upper-layer microprocessor system can be liberated from complicated bottom-layer work, overall service processing is concentrated, and real-time performance of bottom-layer data receiving and sending control can be improved;

(2) processor-embedded software: mainly the bottom level development closely related to the operating system; specifically, the method is based on a Linux system (Ubuntu, Openwrt and Android), and mainly relates to operating system transplantation, customization and cutting optimization, hardware-driven transplantation/writing design and algorithm/service support bottom layer (assembly and C/C + +) development;

(3) processor-application software: is responsible for high-level application services; specifically, services such as cloud communication, local management and edge computing are improved, application development such as Python, Java, C + +, QT and the like is mainly involved, and the method specifically comprises three parts including a resident service, a client component and desktop application.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "coaxial", "bottom", "one end", "top", "middle", "other end", "upper", "one side", "top", "inner", "front", "center", "both ends", and the like, indicate orientations or positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the referenced device or element must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus, are not to be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "disposed," "connected," "secured," "screwed" and the like are to be construed broadly, e.g., as meaning fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally formed; can be mechanically or electrically connected; the terms may be directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediate, and may be communication between two elements or interaction relationship between two elements, unless otherwise specifically limited, and the specific meaning of the terms in the present invention will be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.

Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made in these embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined in the appended claims and their equivalents.

Claims (4)

1. A5G white-box gateway device based on edge computing technology, comprising:

the uniform arrangement module integrates Kubernets/Docker equal-container technology and provides a uniform arrangement and deployment function;

the unified operation and maintenance module is used for unified alarming and state monitoring;

a virtual interconnect module that employs advanced SDN technology;

the hardware decoupling module is used for enabling the virtual interconnection module to adopt NFV cloud computing and virtualization technology;

the AI algorithm module adopts an advanced algorithm and a deep learning technology to realize local reasoning calculation under an edge service scene such as image, video and AI application;

the system comprises a virtual private network module, a data processing module and a data processing module, wherein the virtual private network module separates a physical network and a logic network of enterprise networking through an SD-WAN technology;

the flexible deployment module adopts a full-automatic deployment mechanism, zero-contact maintenance and full-automatic strategy synchronous updating;

the service guarantee module supports multi-access, multi-link and multi-transmission network technologies, ensures the effectiveness of link backup and the reliability of key services, and reduces the dependence on a traditional private network;

the security protection module integrates a firewall function and a DPI technology, can continuously monitor the type of flow on a network through centralized strategy arrangement and cloud management, identifies the service types of the sensors, analyzes security behaviors and marks labels for equipment.

2. The 5G white-box gateway device based on the edge computing technology of claim 1, wherein: the system also comprises a software part and a hardware part;

the software part comprises:

(1) and (3) developing a language:

C/C + +: the system is used for developing a bottom layer/middle layer service system running on a gateway operating system;

Lua/Python: the system is used for developing a middle layer/upper layer service system running on a gateway operating system and is used as a glue language to be matched with a bottom layer to realize upper layer logic of various system service modules;

Java/PHP: the system is used for developing a gateway remote management platform;

(2) operating the system:

FreeRTOS: as a core operating system of a single chip microcomputer part;

linux: a core operating system as part of the edge compute processor;

(3) interconnection protocol:

HTTP: HTTP is used as a bottom protocol of local/remote Web management, graphical user operation is realized by deploying HTTP servers in a browser, a platform and a gateway, and friendly management of the gateway is realized;

FTP/Samba: as a bottom protocol of remote file transmission/sharing, file uploading and downloading and local area network sharing are realized;

MQTT/COAP: as a communication protocol between the Lora/Zigbee wireless network, the gateway, and the server platform;

(4) a software framework:

QT: as a graphical interface application development framework on an edge computing system;

OpenCV: as an image vision processing underlying framework on the edge computing system;

YoloV 3: as a fast and efficient moving object detector;

tensorflow: the method can be used as a calculation frame of a deep learning open source for processing a large amount of data, quickly establishing a mathematical model and completing the establishment of a scene-based edge calculation analysis algorithm;

and (4) SSM: SSM (Spring + Spring MVC + MyBatis) is a basic framework in a web project, belongs to a development suite of JAVAEE, and corresponds to three layers of java web development, namely a web layer (Spring mvc), a service layer (Spring) and a DAO layer (MyBatis);

the hardware portion includes a circuit portion, the circuit portion including:

the hardware schematic diagram is the core of hardware circuit design, and the common work flow of the hardware schematic diagram is the application and verification of appropriate device model selection and necessary calculation and analysis for parameter collocation and simulation tools, and the technologies are finally expressed by a graphical language through drawing the schematic diagram;

the PCB circuit board realizes the function of a hardware circuit by taking a hardware schematic diagram module as a basis.

3. The 5G white-box gateway device based on the edge computing technology of claim 1, wherein: further comprising a communication protocol, the communication protocol comprising:

(1) the communication protocol agreed between the hardware subsystems exists in two forms of AT character instruction set and HEX byte frame;

(2) standardized electronic messaging underlying or overlying communication protocols.

4. The 5G white-box gateway device based on the edge computing technology of claim 1, wherein: the embedded software development system further comprises an embedded software development module, wherein the embedded software development module comprises:

(1) single chip microcomputer-embedded software: mainly the bottom IO, Lora and Zigbee communication;

(2) processor-embedded software: mainly the bottom level development closely related to the operating system;

(3) processor-application software: is responsible for high-level application services.

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