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Cisco® Edge Intelligence is a software offering, designed for Cisco IoT edge devices, that simplifies the secure delivery of IoT data to the right applications at the right time, either at the edge or in the cloud.
Internet of Things (IoT) discussions have moved from counting the number of connected devices to describing use cases and value for each industry. Organizations in every industry are looking to translate IoT edge data into meaningful information and derive business value. Cisco Edge Intelligence radically simplifies the IoT edge, with data delivery and control for connected assets.
Cisco Edge Intelligence is a software offering that extracts, transforms, governs, and delivers connected asset data from the IoT edge to cloud destinations with granular data control. It is a software service deployed on Cisco’s Industrial IoT (IIoT) networking portfolio for easy, out-of-the box deployment.
The benefits of Cisco Edge Intelligence include the ability to leverage edge data for insights immediately. Instead of pushing data all the way to your cloud before analyzing it, you can now take action immediately based on the values of attributes right at the edge. Additionally, with the continued growth of sensors and connected assets, you can use Edge Intelligence to easily reduce the amount of data sent to your cloud back end: send data only when the value changes, send data only when a threshold is reached, or specify your sampling frequency at will. Cisco Edge Intelligence provides a robust toolkit of capabilities to increase your efficiency and improve your edge-to-edge data visibility from day one.
Current approaches require custom software and integration of multiple vendor technologies that are complex to deploy and manage. In addition, current offerings are further challenged with no easy way to control what data is delivered to specific applications running in cloud or on premise environments. Cisco Edge Intelligence enables organizations to regain ownership of and control over IoT edge data by providing:
● Out-of-the-box service on Cisco’s IIoT networking portfolio
● Seamless data extraction from a variety of data sources
● Developer-friendly tools to create intelligent data logic for IoT edge execution
● The ability to govern the flow of IoT data at granular levels before data leaves the operational environments
● Preintegration with leading IoT platforms and applications to easily share data from the IoT edge to cloud destinations
| Feature |
Benefit |
| Integrated industrial device connectivity |
Edge Intelligence provides various industry-standard connectors such as Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture (OPC UA), MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT), Modbus TCP, and NTCIP 1202-1204, and integrates seamlessly with your environment. |
| Asset data model editor |
Customize data models that describe exactly what data will be extracted from your assets. Custom attributes can be implemented to allow per-asset customization if needed, and our Data Logic engine has full access to asset attributes. |
| Data Logic engine |
Deploy custom logic using JavaScript to transform data at the edge. Use data logic to sample high-frequency data streams, apply transformation logic, perform rule-based range validation, or normalize data, depending on specific needs. |
| Intuitive data rules creation |
Achieve fine-grained control to help ensure that the right data is delivered to the right applications. Data from any source can be filtered at the attribute level and delivered to selected applications. |
| Multicloud application data integration |
Deliver your data to any application, either cloud hosted or at the edge, using built-in connectivity to services such as Splunk or industry-standard protocols such as MQTT. |
| Security |
Deploy industry-leading built-in security that protects your data and your business. Edge applications are protected through a comprehensive security architecture anchored to a hardware root of trust and built-in Transport Layer Security (TLS). |
Cisco Edge Intelligence is unique in that it is the only IoT solution that unlocks business value by simplifying the entire data flow from the edge of the network to cloud environments. This is presented through four distinct steps: extract (the data from disparate sources), transform (the data by applying policies), govern (the data as to where and who gets access to it), and deliver (the data securely to its destination).
● Extract data from diverse, distributed devices: Edge Intelligence includes industry-standard connectors such as OPC UA, Modbus, and MQTT that allow the solution to ingest data from disparate sources. No coding is needed – data sources are configured via simple local manager UIs. Ingested data is converted to industry-standard formats such as JSON.
● Transform data at the edge: Perform microprocessing on data close to the source. Create scripts using JavaScript that filter, compress, or analyze data. You can aggregate multiple data points from various sources to gain actionable insights into trends and patterns through real-time intelligent processing.
● Define streamlined data rules: Create data rules for the edge. Choose which data points (right down to the data attribute level) are sent to which destinations. For example, you can have all production data from assets go to an internal database for compliance reasons, and send environmental data to a real-time predictive maintenance application.
● Deliver data anywhere: Data can be delivered to applications either on at the edge or in the cloud. Use built-in connectors to share data with industry-leading cloud vendors, or choose industry-agnostic protocols such as MQTT.
| Product family |
Platforms supported |
Cisco IOx versions supported |
| Cisco Catalyst® IR1800 Rugged Series Routers |
IR1835, IR1833, IR1831, IR1821 |
2.7.0.0 |
| Cisco 800-level Industrial ISRs |
809, 829 |
1.13.0.6 |
| Cisco Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Router |
IR1101 |
2.3.0.5 |
| Cisco IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway |
IC3000 |
2.3.0.10 |
| Cisco Catalyst IE3400 Rugged Series Switch |
IE3400 |
2.8.0.0 |
| Cisco Catalyst IE3500 Rugged Series Switch |
IE3500 |
2.13.x |
Cisco Edge Intelligence is entitled through the network advantage licenses on network devices (industrial routers and switches). Each device leveraging an Edge Intelligence agent is required to have the network advantage license.
| Feature |
| Southbound connectivity |
| Modbus TCP/Serial |
| MQTT Broker |
| Serial |
| NTCIP 1202-1204 |
| RSU |
| EIP/CIP |
| OPC UA |
| Northbound connectivity |
| MQTT |
| Azure IoT Hub |
| AWS IoT Core |
| Splunk |
| Feature |
| Edge Agent software |
| Data ingestion |
| Asset data model editor |
| Northbound data destinations |
| Data rules for northbound data |
| Health monitoring |
| Scripting engine |
| Google Protobuf Support |
| Hardware platforms |
| IR1800 Rugged Series Router |
| 809 Industrial ISR |
| 829 Industrial ISR |
| IR1101 Rugged Series Router |
| IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway |
| IE3400 Rugged Series Switch |
| IE3500 Rugged Series Switch |
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Described in |
Date |
| Added IE3400 support |
Page 5, Under Platform Support |
May 2023 |
| Transition from IoT OD EI to local EI Updated licencing to network advantage Addition of Splunk NB connector Addition of IE3500 platform support |
All pages |
August 2025 |