Edge computing architecture

Edge computing is already in use all around us – from the wearable on your wrist to the computers parsing intersection traffic flow. Other examples include smart utility grid analysis, safety monitoring of oil rigs, streaming video optimization, and drone-enabled crop management .

In simpler terms, edge computing means running fewer processes in the cloud and moving those processes to local places , such as on a user’s computer, an IoT device, or an edge server.

Edge computing is a distributed information technology (IT) architecture in which client data is processed at the periphery of the network, as close to the originating source as possible .