The Internet of Things significantly stirs up interest in the topic of edge computing in recent years. The fact is that edge computing has high hopes for unleashing the potential of ever-increasing volume of data that is produced by IoT devices. By 2025, this volume is expected to reach a whopping 73.1 ZB, but to extract value from it, data flows respectively need to be competently allocated, managed, and analyzed. Edge devices might be helpful here.

This article explains which environments require edge computing, which cases of  IoT + edge tandem are the most promising, and how to distribute working loads competently over an IoT ecosystem.

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