How Edge Computing Is Transforming Industry 4.0?
For the last decade, we have been told that the future of industry is the Cloud. While the Cloud provides limitless scale and historical analytics, it has created a bottleneck for the single most critical demand of the modern factory: speed.
When an industrial robot needs to adjust its arm position, or a high-speed camera needs to catch a micro-fracture on a moving part, the data cannot afford a millisecond round-trip delay to a distant data center. The autonomous factory cannot be built on latency.
