Edge

Computing
 CONTENT
 Cloud Computing
 Limitations of Cloud Computing
 What is Edge Computing
 Need For Edge Computing
 Terms and Definition
 IoT and Edge Computing
 Architecture of Edge Computing
 Advantages
 Disadvantages
 Applications
 Conclusion
 Cloud Computing
 Cloud computing is a infrastructure and software system that allows for access to
shared network of storage, server and application over the internet.

 With Cloud Computing users can access database resources via the internet from
anywhere for as long as they need without worrying about any maintenance and
management of actual resources.
Limitations of Cloud Computing
 Latency: In the traditional cloud computing model applications send data
to the data Centre and obtain a response, which increases the system
latency. For e.g. High speed autonomous driving vehicles require
milliseconds of response time.

 Bandwidth: Transmitting large amount of data generated by edge devices

to the cloud in real time manner will cause great pressure on bandwidth.

 Availability: As more and more Internet services are deployed on the

cloud, the availability of the services has become an integral part of daily
life. Therefore, it is a big challenge for cloud service providers to keep the
24*7 promise.

 Energy: With the increasing amount of computation and transmission,

energy consumption will become a bottleneck restricting the development
of cloud computing centres.
 What is Edge Computing?

 Definition: 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.

 No need to move to and fro from cloud centre.

 Here, rather than transmitting data to a central

data center for processing and analysis, the work
is performed where the data is actually
generated whether it’s a retail store, a factory
floor or across a smart city.
 Need For Edge Computing
Creates a flexible,
Powers the next Optimizes data scalable, secure,
industrial capture and analysis and more
revolution, at the edge to automated
transforming create actionable technology,
manufacturing and business systems, and core
services intelligence. business process
environment.

Developed due to the Promotes an agile

exponential growth business ecosystem
of IoT devices, which that is more
connect to the efficient, performs
internet for faster, saves costs,
managing and is easier to
information over manage and
cloud. maintain
 Edge Computing Terms and
Definitions
Edge
 It highly depends on the use cases.
 Like in telecommunication, it may be a cell
phone or cell tower.
 Similarly, in the automotive example, it could
be a car.
 In manufacturing, it could be a machine, and
 In the Information Technology field, it could be
a laptop.

Edge Devices
A device which produces data is edge devices like
machines and sensors, or any devices through
which information is collected and delivered.
Edge Gateway
 It’s a buffer where edge computing processing is done.
 The gateway is the window into the environment beyond the edge of the network.

Edge Server
A computer located in a facility close to the edge device. These machines run application
workloads and shared services, so they need more computing power than edge devices

Edge node
 An edge node is a computer that acts as an end user portal for communication with
other nodes in cluster computing.
 Any device, server, or gateway that performs edge computing.

Cloud
A public or private cloud that acts as a repository for containerized workloads like
applications and machine learning models. The cloud also hosts and runs apps that
manage edge nodes
Internet of Things (IoT) and Edge
Computing
 The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to a system of interrelated, internet-connected
objects that are able to collect and transfer data over a wireless network without
human intervention.

 In IoT, with the help of edge computing, intelligence moves to the edge.

 There are various scenarios where speed and high-speed data are the main
components for management, power issues, analytics, and real-time need, etc.
helps to process data with edge computing in IoT.
 Architecture of Edge Computing

Edge solutions are usually multi-

layered distributed architectures
encompassing and balancing the
workload between the Edge layer,
the Edge cloud or Edge network,
and the enterprise layer.
Furthermore, when we talk about
the edge, there are the Edge
devices and the local Edge servers.
 More on Edge
 A network of micro data centres that store or process
critical data locally and push received data to a
centralized data centre or repository of cloud storage.

 Typically in IoT use cases, a massive chunk of data goes

through the data center, but edge computing processes
the data locally results in reduced traffic in the central
repository.

 This is done by IoT devices, transferring the data to the

local device, which includes storage, compute and
network security.

 After that, data is processed at the edge while another

portion is sent to storage repository or central
processing in data centre.
 Example: CCTV System
Consider a building secured with dozens of high-definition IoT video
cameras. These are "dumb" cameras that simply output a raw video
signal and continuously stream that signal to a cloud server.

Traditional Cloud Computing System Edge Computing System

 On the cloud server, the video output from all  Now the motion sensor computation is moved
the cameras is put through a motion-detection to the network edge
application to ensure that only clips featuring
activity are saved to the server’s database.  Each camera use its own internal computer to
run the motion-detecting application and then
 This means there is a constant and significant sent footage to the cloud server as needed .
strain on the building’s Internet infrastructure,
as significant bandwidth gets consumed by the  This results in a significant reduction in
high volume of video footage being transferred bandwidth use, because much of the camera
footage will never have to travel to the cloud
server.
Advantages: Scalability
The edge can be used to
Speed scale your own IoT Reliability
network without needing
Edge computing has the to worry about the storage Edge computing handles
capability to increase requirements. reliability part very well. Since
network speed by reducing most at times the edge
latency. It greatly reduces computing does not depend
the distance it should travel on internet connection and
by processing data closer to servers it offers an
the source of information. uninterruptible service.

Security Cost Effectiveness

The information present on Using edge computing for
the cloud has the tendency IoT allows users to reduce
to get hacked easily. Since the bandwidth and data
the edge computing only storage requirement and
sends the relevant replace datacenters with
information to the cloud this device solutions. So, overall
can be prevented cost gets reduced.
 Disadvantages
 Security: Due to the fact that data processing takes place at the
outside edge of the network there are often risks of identity theft and
cyber security breaches.

 Incomplete data: Edge computing only process and analyze partial

sets of information. The rest of the data is just discarded.

 More Storage Space: Edge computing does take a considerably

higher storage space on your device.

 Investment Cost: Implementing an edge infrastructure can be

costly and complex. This is due to their complexity which needs
additional equipment and resources.

 Maintenance: In edge Computing there are more various network

combinations with several computing nodes. This requires higher
maintenance cost than a centralized infrastructure.
Application: Use
Cases
 Manufacturing: An industrial manufacturer deployed edge
computing to monitor manufacturing, enabling real-time
analytics and machine learning at the edge to find
production errors and improve product manufacturing
quality.

 Farming: Using sensors enables the business to track

water use, nutrient density and determine optimal harvest.
Data is collected and analyzed to find the effects of
environmental factors and therefore produce good yield.

 Improved healthcare: The healthcare industry has dramatically

expanded the amount of patient data collected from devices, sensors
and other medical equipment. That enormous data volume requires
edge computing to apply automation and machine learning to access
the data
 Traffic Management: Edge computing can enable more
effective city traffic management. Examples of this include
optimizing bus frequency given fluctuations in demand,
managing the opening and closing of extra lanes, and, in
future, managing autonomous car flows.

 Smart Homes: Smart homes rely on IoT devices collecting

and processing data from around the house. As an example,
the time taken for voice-based assistant devices such as
Amazon’s Alexa to respond would be much faster .
 Conclusion
 Edge Computing is very promising and has found many
useful applications

 Bringing computation to the network’s edge minimizes

the amount of long-distance communication that has to
happen between a client and server.

 However, there are still many challenges faced by the

community, ranging from fundamental technologies to
novel application scenarios and potential business
models

 Edge computing gained notice with the rise of IoT and the
sudden glut of data such devices produce. But with IoT
technologies still in relative infancy, the evolution of IoT
devices will also have an impact on the future
development of edge computing.
Thank You!