Three Examples of how Edge Computing can Give you an Edge

Nearly all of us thought the Internet was the most revolutionary breakthrough in the storage and transfer of information in the early nineties. Suddenly, there was a way to share information faster than ever before, and this technology unlocked an unbelievable amount of opportunity for business that could never have existed before.

A few decades went by, and more information was generated, and mobile devices emerged on the scene, which put directly into our hands an even higher level of connectivity to that information. Now, we have the cloud, a huge storage space for the data humankind generates every minute.

Even as I write this blog, each character is being stored in the cloud in real time! So how much more connected could we possibly get?

Edge Computing Defined

While storing all this data is important, the need to access it quickly and benefit from its application is just as vital, if not more so.

This is where the concept of edge computing comes in: a type of digital framework where the processing of data happens as close to the source as physically possible. The physical piece of the framework at play here consists of automation controllers that can be located in nearly everything thanks to the acceleration of…