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Smart Retail & IWOS Application Overview

Smart Retail is a trend in the retail industrial market, and many applications, such as digital signage, video wall, and kiosk, create massive amounts of data. This data overwhelms legacy networks and centralizes data centers and today’s cloud computing infrastructure. Real-time decision-making is critical without incurring high network round-trip costs. It rapidly drives demand for localized data analytics, storage, and processing that legacy cloud technologies can’t meet. Portwell IWOS (Intelligent Workload Orchestrator System) based on Intel® Modular Edge Computing Architecture(Intel® MEC Arch) is installed at the edge to address this demand and provides the flexibility and power to deal with multiple workloads in a centralized system.

Portwell IWOS series system, a multi-functional 5U/4U server grade with dual/quad MEC Arch modules system, powered by Intel® Xeon E-2278GE 3.3GHz. Portwell IWOS System is focused on enabling workload consolidation in the edge devices such as Retail, Banking, Education, and Hospitality. Portwell IWOS System conceptually partitions the processing system into two domains. The first domain was validated to work with multiple MEC Arch modules, which support PCIe Acceleration cards like HDDL (High-Density Deep Learning) and other off-the-shelf PCIe cards, providing the scalability to support current and future workloads such as video and analytic applications. The second domain is the baseboard of the system, which provides the connection for MEC Arch modules. This provides the mechanical mounting point and power along with physically and electrically standard connectors and interfaces (PCIe, USB, SATA, Ethernet, and so on). It is intended that MEC Arch modules will be interoperable with various IWOS baseboards/systems.

Portwell IWOS system solves the complex processor hardware and firmware design challenges and provides the system designer with an easy-to-integrate complete processing building block to create their solution.

IWOS Focused Area in Smart Retail

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Smart Retail Applications

Many retail applications like digital signage, video wall, and kiosk create massive amounts of data. This data overwhelms legacy networks, centralized data centers, and today’s cloud computing infrastructure. Real-time decision-making is critical without incurring high network round-trip costs. It rapidly drives demand for localized data analytics, storage, and processing that legacy cloud technologies cannot meet. Portwell IWOS system integrated multiple modules and centralized management. It is crucial to provide a solution with high security and manageability features, high processing and graphics capabilities, and low latency. Portwell IWOS can adapt to the challenges of Smart Retail.

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Banking Applications

Banking always processes a considerable amount of customer information and financial data. It takes to structure the data and then support decision-making. The banking system has to consider processing, security, and reliability. It is crucial to provide a solution with high security and accessible manageability features, high processing and graphics capabilities, and low latency. Portwell IWOS system integrated multiple modules and centralized management. These techniques reduced latency and allowed for real-time decision and security, catering to a much better customer experience and a low-cost one.

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IWOS FEATURES

High Processing and Graphics Capabilities

Portwell IWOS is a 4U server system with quad MEC Arch modules powered by Intel Xeon E-2278GE 3.3GHz processor. Therefore, Portwell IWOS can provide high-quality performance with high processing and graphics capabilities.

High Security

Portwell IWOS system support Intel® Software Guard. The ability to increase the security of application code and data, giving them more protection from disclosure or modification. Predefined areas in memory that can better protect users’ sensitive information.

Easily Manageability

Portwell IWOS system provides the easy manageability of multiple workloads in a centralized system. By using various MEC Arch modules as nodes sharing resources, each one is driving a specific workload.

High Reliability

Portwell IWOS system provides the easy manageability of multiple workloads in a centralized system. By using various MEC Arch modules as nodes sharing resources, each one is driving a specific workload. Portwell IWOS system can provide applications with high availability (distributed workloads) and high reliability (failover) environment. They enable IWOS RWO failover if one or more workload nodes experience an outage. IWOS RWO also allows administrators and developers to add or subtract container iterations as computing demands change.

With Intel Technology

Portwell IWOS is the state-of-the-art hardware design to enable a powerful platform for virtualization/containerization software with the following technology:
  • Intel® VT: Intel Virtualization Technologies can accelerate VM or Container operation.
  • Intel® AMT: Intel Active Management Technology provides the ability to manage a host remotely.
  • Intel® Software Guard: the ability to increase the security of application code and data, giving them more protection from disclosure or modification. Predefined areas in memory that can better protect users’ sensitive information.

Low Latency

Portwell IWOS system is a centralized system to manage multiple MEC Arch modules. The centralized management effect low latency between each MEC Arch module.

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IWOS: Intelligent Workload Orchestrator

Allowing different tasks to be performed in the same system, Portwell IWOS is the best solution for helping your business operation with more efficiency, flexibility, productivity, security, and reliability, giving you management convenience and unlimited possibilities. Regardless of industry, it’s the perfect partner to accelerate and stabilize your business growth and breakthroughs!

IWOS software support

Switch UM-Web

Switch UM WEB can manage the switch inside the Portwell IWOS system. Switch UM-Web for monitoring/configure capability includes VLAN Configuration, Load Balancing, Port-Based, QoS, and Port Status / Statistics.

Edge Software Provisioner (ESP)

ESP can be, according to the profile, quickly installed bare-metal image file from the host to target the MEC Arch module on the Portwell IWOS system.

Retail Workload Orchestrator (RWO)

RWO can use a high-performance system to allocate resources. Therefore, the Portwell IWOS system provides applications with high availability (distributed workloads) and High reliability (failover) environment. Through virtualization and containerization, each workload is packaged in a container to operate, which is convenient for subordinates and the management of each workload.

Pre-validated open-source container/VM

Portwell IWOS is state-of-the-art hardware designed to enable a powerful virtualization/containerization software platform. Portwell pre-validated open-source container/VM on the IWOS system so that system designers with an easy-to-integrate complete processing building block to create their solution.

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Distributed MEC Architecture

Centralized MEC Architecture

IWOS Application Case

Smart Retail Applications

Smart Retail contains two parts: Smart shopping and Customer insight. Smart shopping transforms traditional consumption into the digital and intelligent ability to customers have a more convenient and better consumer experience. Through collecting a large amount of data, Customer insight can analyze the retail market to discover more business opportunities.

Portwell IWOS RWO is a management system and workload software that can accelerate retail operators to manage their workload, collect data, and quickly find more business opportunities. Portwell IWOS is a centralized management system that integrates multip MEC Arch modules. Portwell IWOS has powerful processing capabilities, low latency, high reliability, easy management, and high security. It is convenient for Retailers to integrate digital signage and kiosk, providing rich and low-latency product information.

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Banking Applications

Banking systems usually need to handle vast amounts of financial and customer information. They are powerful processing capabilities, and high reliability and safety are necessary factors.

Portwell IWOS system integrated multiple MEC Arch modules and centralized management. It is crucial to provide a solution with high security and accessible manageability features, high processing, and low latency.

Portwell IWOS system support Intel® Software Guard. Portwell IWOS system provides applications with high availability (distributed workloads) and high reliability (failover) environment. IWOS RWO is a management system and workload software, especially a failover feature, if one or more workload nodes experience an outage. The ability to increase the security of banking data and applications gives them more protection from disclosure or modification.
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