Enterprises Start to Find Uses for AI at the Edge

Data-driven experiences are rich, immersive and immediate. Think pizza delivery by drone, video cameras that can record traffic accidents at an intersection, freight trucks that can identify a potential system failure. These kinds of fast-acting activities need lots of data -- quickly. So they can't sustain latency as data travels to and from the cloud. That to-and-fro takes too long; instead, many of these data-intensive processes must remain localized and processed at the edge and on or near a hardware device.