Comparison between Grid eXchange Fabric (GXF) and FledgePower
Grid eXchange Fabric
FledgePOWER
Grid eXchange Fabric (GXF) is a software platform that enables communication and control with devices in the public space
Proven (> 200.000 devices in production in 3 use cases)
Scalability & high availability
Highly secure (zero trust)
Including Life cycle management
Including mobile communication support
Industrial protocols towards devices and IT protocols towards IT applications
Unique selling point: GXF is optimized to run in a data center or in the cloud for large numbers of devices (up to millions)
FledgePOWER is a multi-protocol translation gateway for power systems
Translates industrial protocols to other industrial protocols (device-application and application-application communication)
Based on the Fledge project
Highly secure
In development (until 2027)
Not yet used in production but indented to be used in substations as first use-case. However Fledge the IIOT gateway is already deployed and run in production by several industrial users.
Unique selling point: FledgePOWER is optimized to run locally. It can also run in private data center or cloud.