A primer on Edge computing

Edge computing was born from the realization that compute capacity is distributed everywhere. It is in our cameras, monitors, cars, automated teller machines (ATMs), cash registers, the equipment on our factory floors and the back of the store, transformers and power switches in the utilities infrastructure, aircraft, rail infrastructure, oil and chemical refineries, drilling platforms, and office systems. Almost any equipment being used in the commercial realm is likely to have compute capacity built into its core, and even consumer products have increasingly incorporated some type of general-purpose CPU and possibly a GPU.

Driving this is the fact that any device whose core functionality is controlled by software is much more flexible and cheaper to improve. Classic products (before the introduction of software-enabled computing in their design) provided a certain function, but that functionality was fixed. You bought it, it did its job, and over time...