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How to give your industrial platform a real edge

According to a recent Gartner report, “By 2022, more than 50 percent of Industrial IoT analytics will be performed at the edge, up from less than 10 percent today.” With this growth comes the need for easier ways to ensure the availability of applications that run critical operations at the edge and collect and process data.

03/09/2018 10:23:14

I caught up with Jason Andersen, Vice President, Business Line Management at Stratus Technologies, just after the company released the first product from its edge computing strategy in the UK.

What is edge computing?

Edge computing puts processing power closer to where measurement and decision-making occur in the control loop. There has been an expectation in industry that many tasks would be associated with the cloud due to the amount of processing required. However, organisations today are finding they don’t have the connectivity required throughout their operational technology (OT) infrastructure to send massive amounts of data to and from the cloud. Nor do they have the time, and often there are security concerns too. With edge computing, data is collected, processed and actioned on-site, and not in the server room, but where the application is running – at the edge - and most importantly, in real-time.

Read the full article in the September issue of DPA

Written By Sophia Bell

Sophia Bell is the Group Editor of DPA, Connectivity, and PBSI. She joined the team in 2020 as Assistant Editor after achieving a First-Class Honours BA in English Literature and Film Studies from the University of East Anglia. In her current role, she leads the editorial strategy, driving digital growth and ensuring each title continues to deliver trusted, relevant insight for engineering and manufacturing professionals.