Whether you run a chain of retail stores, a plant manufacturing toys or mobile phones, or an autonomous drone fleet, you’ll have heard about what edge computing can do for you.
Edge computing has been with us in rudimentary form since the nineties, but it’s in the multiconnected world of cloud, Internet of Things and digital supply chain logistics that it’s really taking off.
Modern data collection and processing technologies have meant edge computing systems have the storage and analytical power to act on the data they gather at the location of the machine, device or node that produces it. It does what cloud computing does on a smaller scale, right on the device.
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