Researchers develop AI-based network platform recognizing face and environment

For the first time in the world, South Korean researchers have developed and demonstrated a smart networking platform that uses edge computing technology converged with artificial intelligence. The platform can recognize faces and situations that take place around edge nodes to take appropriate actions and request emergency service or police support. Edge computing is a network technology that uses nodes located at the edge of a network as local servers that will primarily process data and communicate with the main server if only necessary. The edge computing method greatly reduces the computing burden put on the central server and reduces data traffic between the end-user and the main server. The data transfer speed increases as devices communicate with nodes that are located physically closer.