UIS Cloud Product Brief

IoT / Edge Platform

A cloud-edge integrated distributed application platform built on KubeEdge — delivering decentralized control-plane autonomy to the edge, engineered for regulated industries.

Executive Summary

Regulated industries are deploying tens of thousands of edge nodes — at factory floors, hospital sites, energy substations, and retail branches — and they face an immovable constraint: data cannot leave a controlled boundary. The platform keeps processing and data on the edge nodes and clusters you control.

Our IoT / Edge Platform is a cloud-edge integrated distributed application platform built on KubeEdge — a Kubernetes-native architecture that delivers decentralized control-plane autonomy to the edge. This ensures your critical infrastructure — whether in a remote oil field or a secure hospital wing — remains fully operational and locally manageable during total backhaul disconnection or network isolation.

Engineered for strict data boundaries by design. We provide native 'Audit-by-Default' capabilities, ensuring that data provenance and processing never exit your defined regulatory boundary.

For organizations where the Edge is the Compliance Frontier, our platform transforms regulatory burden into a competitive advantage, extending your compliance posture to the very edge of your network.

It is equally well suited for industry solution providers building edge applications for regulated markets.

The Challenges You Are Facing

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Sound familiar? Your edge estate is growing. Your regulatory obligations are intensifying. Your current infrastructure was not designed for both at once.

Data Boundary Exposure

Cloud-connected edge nodes push telemetry, logs, and inference data to hyperscaler regions outside your regulatory jurisdiction. Every audit cycle, this is a finding.

Offline Node Failures

When WAN connectivity drops, your edge applications stop. Downtime at a substation, a clinic, or a production line is not theoretical — it is measured in euros and regulatory notices.

Heterogeneous Device Sprawl

You manage edge nodes from five vendors, on three operating systems, with four management consoles. Onboarding a new site takes weeks — which means every planned expansion carries a field-ops cost your budget did not anticipate, and every new node added to a fragmented estate is another endpoint your security team cannot uniformly audit.

Cloud-Heavy AI Inference

Model inference routed back to centralised cloud adds measurable latency, consumes bandwidth, and creates data-egress risk for sensitive operational data.

Operational Cost Creep

Per-device licensing from hyperscalers scales linearly with your estate. At 10,000 nodes, the economics collapse.

What Our Platform Delivers

A single, Kubernetes-native control plane that runs from your cloud — or your on-premises management cluster — down to every edge node, every device, and every AI inference workload you operate. Designed for the edge conditions that your production environments actually face.

Edge Node Onboarding & Lifecycle Management

Weeks-long site onboarding is a field-ops budget problem and a security audit gap. Zero-touch provisioning brings a new edge node from registration to managed, policy-enforced, auditable state in minutes — from a single console, regardless of vendor or OS. Every node in your estate is uniformly managed from Day 1.

Device Connectivity & Protocol Normalisation

Connect OT and IT devices using standard industrial protocols without complex protocol gateways. Eliminate integration overhead across heterogeneous environments.

Offline Autonomy & Local Execution

Edge nodes continue executing applications, enforcing policies, and persisting data when cloud connectivity is unavailable. Your operations do not stop because your WAN does.

Cloud-Edge & Edge-Edge Messaging

Reliable, encrypted, ordered message delivery between cloud and edge — and between edge nodes themselves. Data synchronises automatically on reconnect.

Edge Application Deployment & Scheduling

Deploy containerised applications to any edge node or fleet using Kubernetes-native scheduling. Manage application versions and updates centrally across your entire edge estate.

Built-in Edge AI Inference

Run validated AI/ML models at the edge — computer vision, anomaly detection, predictive maintenance — without routing sensitive data to a cloud inference endpoint.

Built for Regulated Industries

SectorDeployment PatternData Requirement
Utilities / EnergySubstation edge nodes with offline autonomy; SCADA data never leaves site boundaryNIS2 operational continuity + data residency ✓
HealthcareClinical edge AI inference for imaging analysis without PHI leaving hospital networkGDPR Article 9 sensitive data + EU AI Act compliance ✓
Financial ServicesATM / branch edge with local transaction processing and fraud detection at nodeDORA resilience + PCI-DSS data control ✓
Smart ManufacturingOT/IT convergence on factory floor; predictive maintenance AI at machine levelIndustrial IP protection + NIS2 OT segmentation ✓
Smart CityDistributed edge nodes across transport, lighting, and public safety infrastructure; real-time event processing at city scaleLow-latency operational data + data residency ✓
RetailIn-store edge nodes for inventory management, customer analytics, and POS resilience with offline autonomyPCI-DSS data control + offline continuity ✓

Some of Our Clients

Some of our clients

Book an Edge Architecture Review

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Edge Architecture Review

A 60-minute session dedicated to mapping your current infrastructure against stringent data-boundary requirements. We'll identify critical gaps and opportunities for immediate improvement.

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Reference Proof of Concept

Deploy our platform on your existing infrastructure with a proven use case. We'll match you with a relevant reference customer from your sector to demonstrate real-world impact and compliance.

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Production Deployment

Achieve a full edge estate that is compliant, auditable, and operationally independent. Our solutions ensure seamless integration and long-term security, giving you peace of mind.

Request an Edge Assessment

Get in touch and we will map your current edge infrastructure against technical and regulatory requirements.