Discussing the design of IoT and retail analytics systems

In the previous chapter, we discussed IoT and retail analytics and many of the different use cases that they create. Our focus in this section will be to have a brief discussion about the technologies being used to achieve low latency performance for these applications and use cases. Note that IoT is a technology space that is still actively growing and evolving, so there are going to be a lot of breakthroughs and advancements in the coming years. Let us quickly recap some important use cases of IoT and retail data analytics. A lot of these new applications and future possibilities are fueled by the research and advancements in 5G wireless technology, edge computing, and artificial intelligence (AI). We will look at those aspects in the next section, along with other technologies that facilitate applications using low latency IoT and retail data analytics.

A lot of applications fall under the remote inspection/analysis category...