Data: from cloud to edge

Many people in the industry are shifting from cloud to edge because of different variables in our rapidly changing economy. Where our society is becoming more individualistic and decentralised, people want to own their data and gain more sovereignty over it to make better decisions and find new ways to save on costs.

Moving computation closer to the data source, i.e. edge computing, optimises the different applications run on your IoT devices. The data owner and server can communicate over short distances, which lowers latency and utilises bandwidth.

Thousands of IoT-connected machines send packets of data back to their data management platforms in the industry. However, many packets that are sent and stored contain data that are not useful for better decision-making regarding the performance of these machines.

Here, edge computing can enable the processing and filtering of IoT data closer to the devices, optimising bandwidth by ensuring that only information required for longer-term storage or analysis is transmitted to a centralised management platform. It makes your data more secure and private and allows you to save on cloud storage costs. Go edge.