Aggregate Computing is a computing model proposed by TRON Project. It is a model in which the edge devices connected via tunneling and the applications on the cloud side provide an IoT service as a whole, based on the premise of the generalization of always-connected, low-latency networks in the future.

The platform on the cloud that realizes Aggregate Computing is called “IoT-Aggregator.” The user interface for identifying devices and information that work with IoT-Aggregator and for users to discover optimal functions and manage connections is called “IoT Dashboard.” The standard development environment for the edge nodes that are on the other end of the connections of “IoT-Aggregator” is “IoT-Engine.” TRON Forum has developed and released “μT-Kernel” as an operating system that runs on this platform.

TRON Project, which started in 1984, has been working to realize “Highly Functionally Distributed System (HFDS)” as a system where any objects in our surroundings will have computers embedded and collaborate with each other to offer better services to human users. This concept is currently being partially realized under the names such as the IoT and ubiquitous computing.

So far, TRON Project has mainly focused on developing technological components that would be necessary for realizing HFDS such as node devices, identification infrastructure and information distribution infrastructure. Since the component technologies have matured, we are advocating the concept of Internet of Services (IoS) as a way of combining the components to build a system as a whole.