Windmill Enterprise Joins the Linux Foundation

Windmill Enterprise, developer of the Cognida network and platform with a focus on enterprise blockchain innovation, joined the Linux Foundation this week, and two projects – the Linux Foundation Networking community and EdgeX Foundry. Windmill joins existing Linux Foundation members like AT&T, Google, IBM and DellEMC, and companies including Samsung and Analog Devices who are working collaboratively with the EdgeX Foundry community to address complex issues at the edge of IoT and Industrial IoT networks. When mobile blockchain meets edge computing, IoT and IIoT developers have a decentralized data management framework available. Despite their being thousands of projects using blockchain in service today in finance, healthcare and logistics, its application in mobile services including IoT remains nascent. Part of the challenge may due to blockchain users needing to solve for proof-of-work, in other words a block, to the blockchain. This consumes substantial resources in terms of CPU time and energy, which presents a conundrum for resource-limited mobile devices. To facilitate blockchain applications in the future mobile Internet of Things systems, Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) will help.