“ NOT ONLY CAN SMART DEVICES MAKE AUTOMATED CONTROL DECISIONS FASTER , BY PROCESSING DATA LOCALLY , BUT CURATING DATA IN REAL- TIME CAN BRING OTHER BENEFITS , SUCH AS SAVING BATTERY LIFE BY SENDING IT TO THE CLOUD ”
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“ NOT ONLY CAN SMART DEVICES MAKE AUTOMATED CONTROL DECISIONS FASTER , BY PROCESSING DATA LOCALLY , BUT CURATING DATA IN REAL- TIME CAN BRING OTHER BENEFITS , SUCH AS SAVING BATTERY LIFE BY SENDING IT TO THE CLOUD ”
JACK LAWTON DATA SCIENCE PRINCIPAL , AIIMI
According to Jack Lawton , data science principal at data analytics specialist at UK-based Aiimi , edge data and analytics will become increasingly important as we move towards a more interconnected world .
“ Across industries , from utilities and the public sector , to proptech and financial services , there is growing interest and investment in edge computing . This is because there is a strong drive to make
greater use of IoT technology and explore the automated control opportunities it presents . Edge data and analytics are essential to this . For example , not only can smart devices make automated control decisions faster , by processing data locally , but curating data in real-time can bring other benefits , such as saving battery life by sending it to the cloud .”
These views are supported by James Thomason , CEO of EDJX , an edge start-up , who says data generated at the edge is currently exploding . He cites one of the reasons as Industry 4.0 – lauded as the Fourth Industrial Revolution and predicated on IoT – which is redefining event-driven software and putting machines and devices capable of infinite scalability in the place of human intervention
“ Computing is moving into powering augmented reality , empowering decision making via AI and machine Learning , operating cars and increasing public safety .
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