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IoT and edge computing

IoT and edge computing

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IoT and edge computing

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- IoT, or the Internet of Things, and edge computing are old concepts that have new names. IoT is the ability to support remote devices such as thermostats in your home, fitness watches, phone, TVs, factory robots, or anything that provides its own processing and data storage away from the centralized server, mainly existing on public cloud platforms. Edge computing is related to IoT in that it involves supporting complete platforms, including compute, storage, and networking at the edge of a larger system or systems. For example, your smart thermostat gathers temperature data and decides to turn on the heat within the device rather than sending the data all the way back to a centralized server that has to make those decisions on behalf of the device. This reduces latency as the data does not need to travel all the way back to the backend systems and makes the system more reliable. Even if the network is down, it can still function autonomously. So while a device like your smart…

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