infrastructure//edge computing

Edge computing places computation near the data source, user or physical process it serves. That may mean a regional point of presence, a factory gateway, a vehicle or the device holding the sensor itself.

Edge computing places computation near the data source, user or physical process it serves. That may mean a regional point of presence, a factory gateway, a vehicle or the device holding the sensor itself.

Proximity can reduce round-trip latency, bandwidth consumption and dependence on continuous connectivity. It also fragments deployment across smaller, heterogeneous and physically exposed machines. “Edge” describes where computation sits relative to consequences, not one vendor runtime or ownership model.

The cloud brings data to a large machine. The edge asks whether the decision should travel at all.