{"id":7283,"date":"2017-04-14T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=7283"},"modified":"2017-03-10T08:45:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T16:45:53","slug":"edge-computing-cloud-latency-cant-support-real-time-iot-and-ai-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/edge-computing-cloud-latency-cant-support-real-time-iot-and-ai-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Edge Computing: Cloud Latency Can’t Support Real-Time IoT and AI Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is the Cloud the ultimate solution? \u00a0Many of the benefits of the cloud can be alluring. Security has long been a pain point, but cloud security is increasingly less of an issue<\/a>, and security has been steadily improving.<\/p>\n

One issue remaining issue with the cloud that won’t go away anytime soon is latency. \u00a0Cloud apps are slow compared to apps that run on local machines. \u00a0Network latency, the time it takes data to travel from devices to the datacenter and back, is a problem for any application that needs immediate feedback of information.<\/p>\n

Peter Levine<\/a>, general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, told the Wall Street Journal<\/a> that “I have this theory that cloud computing goes away in the not-too-distant future.\u00a0I believe there is now a shift, a return to the edge where computing gets done much more at the edge than in the cloud. The Internet of Everything, specifically if you think about self-driving cars, is a great example of this. A self-driving car is a data center on wheels. And it has 200-plus central processing units. It\u2019s got to do all its computation at the endpoint and only pass back to the cloud, if it\u2019s connected at all, important bits of curated information.”<\/p>\n

Deepu Talla<\/a>, VP and General Manager of Mobile\u00a0at Nvidia, said that<\/a> \u201cby 2020, there will be 1 billion cameras in the world doing public safety and streaming data. There\u2019s not enough upstream bandwidth available to send all this to the cloud. Latency becomes an issue in robotics and self-driving cars, applications in which decisions have to be made with lightning speed. Privacy, of course, is easier to protect when data isn\u2019t moving around. And availability of the cloud is an issue in many parts of the world where communications are limited. We will see AI transferring to the edge.”<\/p>\n

Thomas Bittman<\/a>, analyst at Gartner, wrote that<\/a> “there\u2019s a sharp left turn coming ahead, where we need to expand our thinking beyond centralization and cloud, and toward location and distributed processing for low-latency and real-time processing. Customer experience won\u2019t simply be defined by a web site experience. The cloud will have its role, but the edge is coming, and it\u2019s going to be big.”<\/p>\n

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Is the Cloud the ultimate solution? \u00a0Many of the benefits of the cloud can be alluring. Security has long been a pain point, but cloud security is increasingly less of an issue, and security has been steadily improving. One issue…<\/span><\/p>\n

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