There are a range of package managers out there which are used in almost every software development project to integrate third party packages to a project. These packages are usually stored in central repositories in the cloud. This central cloud approach brings some downsides especially with regard to fault tolerance which we want to tackle with our approach inspired by thoughts of dew computing. In this paper we present a fully distributed package manager which can be used on cloud as well as on the edge or in a hybrid environment. The approach is based on a peer-to-peer network, implemented with hypercore protocol.

The ECCO-Box is a framework to establish connectivity of heterogeneous devices and sensors and distribute computing on the computing continuum dynamically at runtime. The goal of the dissertation is to design an architecture concept and develop a working prototype as a proof of concept. There are several requirements to the application which have to be fulfilled and will be evaluated in the form of an experimental study in the end. The main use case of the application will be processing of sensor data and analysis with artificial intelligence in an industrial environment.