Open Edge Platform 2026.1 Documentation#
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.
Learn more about Open Edge Platform, what components it hosts and how you can use it to design your AI solutions.
Check out what’s new in the latest release, 2026.1.
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.
Monitoring for smart city and transportation.
Industrial environments and analytics.
Point-of-sale automation and analytics.
Stationary, autonomous, and humanoid systems.
Facilitate the teaching and learning process.
Clinical and diagnostic monitoring and analytics.
Edge-to-cloud solutions for aerospace and defense applications.
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.
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.
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.
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 Edge Microvisor Toolkit, Azure Linux and Wind River 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.