Edge Device Enablement Framework#

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The Edge Device Enablement Framework (EEF) delivers a set of curated, validated infrastructure stacks (also known as profiles), providing a runtime for edge applications. It is built on a modular framework where each node is based on a common foundation of hardware, OS, and container runtime.

How It Works#

This release of the Edge Device Enablement Framework currently contains the Video Analytics (VA) Enablement Node profile, with components curated mainly for the needs of VA workloads. Command-line options support the Metro, Intel® Video Processing Platform, Transportation Fusion Compute Controller (TFCC), Intel vPro® Platform, and Edge Workloads and Benchmarks enablement needs on the edge nodes, and a new ‘DevKit’ option with a very minimal set of components and GPU or NPU driver installation.

Main Supported Features#

Category	Feature
Hardware	- Support for 4th and 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor - Support for Intel® Core™ Ultra processor and 12th and 13th Gen Intel® Core™ industrial processors - Support for Intel® Iris® Xe Integrated Graphics for Core platform - Intel® Atom® Processor
OS	- Ubuntu 24.04.4 (Or the latest LTS version from Canonical)
CaaS	- Model: Bare Metal - ContainerD; Docker CE; Docker Compose
Observability / Telemetry	- Aggregate and query telemetry (e.g., Prometheus) - GPU, CPU and Memory Telemetry - Visualization and Logs analysis
Security	- Secure Boot (documentation) (Enabled for SPR, RPL. Not supported on MTL internal SKUs) - A hardware RoT-based foundation (TPM chip SW) - Secure network and communication (IPsec, OpenSSL)
Framework	- OVPL; OpenVINO™ LTS; DL Streamer; GStreamer; Graph Compute Runtime; OpenCV with Ffmpeg

Key Hardware Elements Supported#

Hardware Element	Description
Processor	- 4th and 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors - Intel® Core™ Ultra processors - 12th and 13th Gen Intel® Core™ mobile processor-based server
Supported Reference Platforms and Commercial HW	- 4th and 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors on Dell PowerEdge R760 server - Intel® Core™ Ultra processors on Intel reference platform - 12th Gen Intel® Core™ desktop processors on ASUS PE3000G - 13th Gen Intel® Core™ desktop processors on ASRock iEP-7020E Series - Intel® Atom® Processor iEP-5020G Series
Network	- Intel Integrated i229 - Intel integrated i226 - Intel® X710 Ethernet Network Adapter - Intel® E810 Ethernet Network Adapter
GPU	- Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics (integrated with 13th Gen Intel® Core™ mobile processor)

Key Software Capabilities Updates#

Capability

Software Packages

Latest Software Support Summary

- Prometheus 3.11.2
- Grafana 2.6.0
- cAdvisor v0.49.1
- Intel® XPU SMI v1.3.5
- OpenVINO™ 2025.4.0
- OpenCV 4.12.0
- FFmpeg 2025Q1
- oneVPL 25.4.5
- Intel® Media Driver 24.1.0
- Libva 2.22.0
- Mesa Driver 25.2
- Intel Level Zero for GPU 1.3.29735.27-914~22.04
- DiscreteTPM ubuntu-22.04
- OpenSSL 3.1.4
- Intel® LTS Kernel 6.6-intel
- Docker Compose 2.29
- DockerCE 27.2
- ContainerD 1.7.22
- GPU driver i915 v0.28.0