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.