Demystifying the Edge Computing

Edge Computing is often misquoted, misrepresented, and misunderstood. Knowing the name of 'something' is not the same as knowing the 'something.' In this short article/presentation, I described what Edge Computing is and tried to simplify the information for most readers.

As we measure the data points, the information emerges, and we have the opportunity to act at a place and time on this information, the spatiotemporal event handling. Therefore, the IT systems we design must support the Spatiotemporal event handling, leading to federated system architecture. Edge Computing is part of this federated system architecture and provides near-real-time information processing in proximity to the information source. Edge Computing is performed in a physical environment with a specific boundary determined by characteristics to delineate the environment from the rest of the world. It can build various contexts that the physical environment would go through or exhibit.

Properly built Edge Applications provide security, scalability, usability, and endurance for the connected applications.

In the following presentation, I tried to demystify what Edge Computing is and what role edge computing plays in the Connected World.

I presented this deck at the IEEE Virtual World Forum on Internet of Things 2020.

Happy to receive any comments, suggestions, and questions on this topic.