Applications of Edge computing

To gain a better sense of why Edge computing is important, let’s examine a few of the use cases for where Edge computing is beneficial. These examples are all drawn from real-world experiences that we’ve been involved in with enterprise organizations.

Quality inspection

Production quality is traditionally performed randomly, and it’s checked by sampling a small portion of the manufactured product. Typically, inspecting everything is too time-consuming and costly. Performing periodic checks helps find a balance between the cost of inspection versus the cost of remediating an entire batch of quality issues that may creep into the production process.

However, computer vision has improved to the point that we can inspect every single item at every step of the process. A camera can be mounted on the production line, and a visual recognition model can be trained to see the difference between a good part and a problem, potentially...