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⚠️  REGARDING CLOUD SERVICES, WE ONLY USE CLOUD SERVICES FOR OTA AND OUR CURRENT FRONTEND DASHBOARD, BUT EVERYTHING ELSE IS RUNNING ON THE EDGE AND OUR GOAL IS TO USE OUR EDGE INFRASTRUCTURE AS A DISTRIBUTED CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE TO FOCUS ON 4 KEY USES CASES. AROUND APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT, APPLICATION DISTRIBUTION ON THE EDGE VIA WIFI OR ONLINE, IOT AND FINALLY AI MODEL. WE ARE CURRENTLY MOVING FROM A CPU EDGE TO A GPU EDGE FROM PC ENGINE APU3A TO RK3568 AND SOON NVIDIA JETSON BOARD.    ⚠️
    
    
    
⚠️ THE PRIMARY CHALLENGE IS TO INCORPORATE ALL THOSE FUNCTIONALITIES THAT IS LIGHT, FLEXIBLE, SCALABLE AND INTEGRATE SOME STRONG SECURITY LAYER AND REDUNDANCY. SOME OF THE CHALLENGES WERE AROUND HARDWARE CAPACITY WHICH WE SOLVED AND NOW WE NEED TO OPTIMIZE OUR SOFWARE SUCH OUR WIFI SOLUTION, WE ARE CURRENTLY USING COOVACHILLI AND FREE RADIUS AND WE NEED TO IMPROVE SOME OF THE INTERNAL PROCESS WE HAVE.   ⚠️
    
  

⚠️    DATABASE MANAGEMENT AND STORAGE ARE SECONDARY BUT STILL IMPORTANT. EFFECTIVE DATABASE MANAGEMENT IS NECESSARY FOR ORGANIZING AND ACCESSING DATA EFFICIENTLY, WHICH SUPPORTS COMPUTING NEEDS BY MAINTAINING DATA INTEGRITY AND AVAILABILITY. ADEQUATE STORAGE IS ESSENTIAL FOR MAINTAINING APPLICATION STATES, ENSURING DATA REDUNDANCY, ENABLING OFFLINE OPERATIONS, AND STORING LARGE DATASETS FOR AI AND IOT APPLICATIONS. PRIORITIZING THESE ASPECTS ENSURES THAT ARED'S INFRASTRUCTURE IS VERSATILE, RESILIENT, AND CAPABLE OF SUPPORTING ITS DIVERSE USE CASES.   ⚠️
    
     
    
⚠️   RIGHT NOW, WE ARE RUNNING SECURITY CAMERA SYSTEM, WIFI MANAGEMENT SOLUTION, POS THAT INCLUDE TABLE AND ORDER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. WE ARE BUILDING A SMALL AI MODEL TO HELP US MAINTAIN OUR DISTRIBUTED INFRASTRUCTURE. WE ARE ALSO BUILDING A WEB APP TO ALLOW USER TO ACCESS APPLICATIONS STORE ON THE EDGE THAT WE BELIEVE WILL BE VERY POPULAR FOR OUR PUBLIC WIFI PROJECT WE ARE CURRENTLY WORKING ON. GAMING AND ENTERTAINMENT ARE SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN REQUESTED FROM OUR CURRENT PARTNERS.  ⚠️
 

    
⚠️   FOR THE CONTAINERIZATION WE HAVE SELECTED BALENA AND WILL NEED AN ORCHESTRATION SOLUTION KUBERNETES, BUT WE HAVE NOT SELECTED THE VM HOWEVER, WE STARTED A SMALL DOCUMENTATION ATTACHED BELOW THAT WILL NEED TO BE EXPANDED OF COURSE.    ⚠️
    
    
    
⚠️ very important, the core system such as yocto, and some of the layer on top of yocto need to be kept the same, we can of course improve them, everything else is flexible. ⚠️
   
   
⚠️  WE DO NOT HAVE A TIMELINE YET, WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE AN MVP BY EARLY FIRST QUARTER NEXT YEAR, THAT WE CAN TEST AND DEPLOY TO GET FEEDBACKS. ⚠️