Can Edge Analytics Become a Game Changer? - KDnuggets

By Sciforce, software solutions based on science-driven information technologies. One of the major IoT trends for 2019 that are constantly mentioned in ratings and articles is edge analytics. It is considered to be the future of sensor handling, and it is already, at least in some cases, preferred over usual clouds. First of all, let's go deeper into the idea. Edge analytics refers to an approach to data collection and analysis in which an automated analytical computation is performed on data at a sensor, network switch, or another device instead of sending the data back to a centralized data store. What this means is that data collection, processing, and analysis are performed on-site at the edge of a network in real-time.