Three years ago the idea of a data confidence fabric (DCF) was first proposed. A white paper described the overall concept.
“A Data Confidence Fabric delivers trusted data to
applications with measurable confidence.”
During the first year, Dell internally built the first data confidence fabric. The idea was then prototyped publicly and advanced with several partners (IOTA, Intel). The results were then discussed at a webinar.
Two years later, in October of 2022, the LINUX Foundation announced the donation of the internal code to the LF Edge community as part of Project Alvarium.
Once the code was donated, the Project Alvarium community (specifically Dell, IOTA, Zededa, and Climate Check) came together and defined the first-ever hardware instantiation of a DCF.
The project monitored sensor data at a biodigester in Molina Chile. This biodigester processed organic feedstock, and methane reduction sensor data traveled over a DCF to the Dell server, which was running the Alvarium SDK.
As a result, and for the first time ever, a business insight (carbon emissions reduction amount) was accompanied by a data confidence score (how trustworthy is the insight?).
For more detail on this solution, please review the following:
- The proposal was detailed in a joint presentation by IOTA and Climate Check.
- The overall solution was presented and described at Dell Technologies World in May.
- Dell published two articles about DCF and sustainability on the edge, as well as how DCF fights untrustworthy data on the edge.
- Dell created an introductory video for the project as well as a longer discussion with IOTA’s Mat Yarger.
- An August 2022 summary of the project was presented at the LATAM Open Source summit.
The Project Alvarium community is currently meeting every other Monday at 11AM Eastern Time to process the outcomes from this PoC and plan the next steps.
Steve
Dell Technologies Fellow https://stevetodd.tech/
