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Open Edge Platform is an **open source** platform for developing highly-optimized and scalable
AI solutions for the edge. It focuses on high-performance inference, ease of integration, and
**best-in-class utilization of Intel hardware**.

Comprising a complete software stack accompanied by a range of reference and blueprint
applications, it enables you to compose your own modular and secure system, a close fit for
your needs.



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   .. grid-item-card:: Learn more
      :link: ./OEP-articles.html

      Learn more about Open Edge Platform, what components it hosts and how you can use it
      to design your AI solutions.

   .. grid-item-card:: Release Notes
      :link: ./OEP-articles/release-notes.html

      Check out what's new in the latest release, 2026.1.

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      **Open Edge Platform AI Suites** are curated collections of AI reference applications
      prepared to accelerate development of AI solutions for the edge. They are complete with
      libraries, microservices, and tools to enable development of production-quality products
      for multiple domains, optimized for Intel architecture.

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         .. grid-item-card:: Metro
            :class-card: homepage-card-container-big
            :link: ./ai-suite-metro.html
            :img-top: ./_static/images/icon_ai_suite_metro.png

            Monitoring for smart city and transportation.

         .. grid-item-card:: Manufacturing
            :class-card: homepage-card-container-big
            :link: ./ai-suite-manufacturing.html
            :img-top: ./_static/images/icon_ai_suite_manufacturing.png

            Industrial environments and analytics.

         .. grid-item-card:: Retail
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            :link: ./ai-suite-retail.html
            :img-top: ./_static/images/icon_ai_suite_retail.png

            Point-of-sale automation and analytics.

         .. grid-item-card:: Robotics
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            :link: ./ai-suite-robotics.html
            :img-top: ./_static/images/icon_ai_suite_robotics.png

            Stationary, autonomous, and humanoid systems.

         .. grid-item-card:: Education
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            :link: ./ai-suite-education.html
            :img-top: ./_static/images/icon_ai_suite_education.png

            Facilitate the teaching and learning process.

         .. grid-item-card:: Health and Life Sciences
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            :link: ./ai-suite-health-and-life-sciences.html
            :img-top: ./_static/images/icon_ai_suite_health.png

            Clinical and diagnostic monitoring and analytics.

         .. grid-item-card:: Federal and Aerospace (preview)
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            :link: ./ai-suite-fed-aero.html
            :img-top: ./_static/images/icon_ai_suite_aerospace.png

            Edge-to-cloud solutions for aerospace and defense applications.


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   .. grid-item-card:: Edge AI Libraries / Tools / Microservices
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      :link: ./ai-libraries.html
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      A collection of libraries, microservices, and tools for Edge AI application development.
      It includes ingredients for building production-quality multimodal edge AI apps, as well
      as sample applications to showcase generic AI use cases.

   .. grid-item-card:: Edge Microvisor Toolkit
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      :link: ./edge-microvisor-toolkit/index.html
      :img-top: ./_static/images/icon_microvisor.png

      Lightweight operating system based on Azure Linux and optimized for Intel® architecture.
      As an edge-optimized container host updated with the latest Intel silicon capabilities,
      it offers a perfect environment for testing and designing your Open Edge Platform AI
      solutions.

   .. grid-item-card:: Edge Workloads and Benchmarks
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      :link: https://github.com/open-edge-platform/edge-workloads-and-benchmarks
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      Performance-optimized pipelines that leverage the OpenVINO™ toolkit,
      the GStreamer multimedia framework, and the Deep Learning Streamer (DL Streamer) for
      validating media and edge AI analytics benchmarks.

   .. grid-item-card:: Image Composer Tool
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      :link: ./image-composer-tool/index.html
      :img-top: ./_static/images/icon_manageability.png

      Command-line tool that uses a simple toolchain to build mutable or immutable Linux
      distributions from pre-built packages from different OS distribution repositories.
      The tool enables building custom images for
      :doc:`Edge Microvisor Toolkit <edge-microvisor-toolkit/index>`,
      `Azure Linux <https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux>`__ and
      `Wind River eLxr <https://www.windriver.com/blog/Introducing-eLxr>`__.

This website aggregates user documentation for Open Edge Platform components and is the
recommended source of information, even though all documents are maintained in the open source
GitHub repositories, for ease of contribution. To see documents for a specific component,
select the respective section in the selector at the top of the page and follow the
section's menu.


.. toctree::
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   Open Edge Platform <./OEP-articles.md>
   Metro <./ai-suite-metro.md>
   Manufacturing <./ai-suite-manufacturing.md>
   Retail <./ai-suite-retail.md>
   Robotics <./ai-suite-robotics.md>
   Education <./ai-suite-education.md>
   Health and Life Sciences <./ai-suite-health-and-life-sciences.md>
   Federal and Aerospace <./ai-suite-fed-aero.md>
   Libraries, Tools, Services <./ai-libraries.md>
   Edge Microvisor Toolkit <./edge-microvisor-toolkit/index>
   Image Composer Tool <./image-composer-tool/index>