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title: "Difuon Fog: Decentralized Federated Ephemeral Edge Computing Platform: Market and Technology Opportunity"
maintainer: "Samuel M. Smith"
authors:
  - "Samuel M. Smith"
date: "2018-11-30"
year: 2018
reading_level: "practitioner"
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evidence: "informative"
evidence_meaning: "an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite"
status: "quiet"
status_meaning: "no change in six to eighteen months; still correct"
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topics:
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source_url: "https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/DifuonOpportunityWP.pdf"
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# Difuon Fog: Decentralized Federated Ephemeral Edge Computing Platform: Market and Technology Opportunity

A 2018 white paper describing the market and technology opportunity for Difuon Fog, a proposed decentralized, federated, ephemeral edge (fog) computing platform and marketplace for data integration and analysis across Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Not about KERI; of historical interest only.

Labels: reading level Practitioner; evidence informative (an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite).
Source: https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/DifuonOpportunityWP.pdf (license not recorded).
The abstract is KSKB's own text under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; credit KSKB, the KERISuite Knowledge Base (https://kskb.dev/).