Rise of the Edge – Zeroth.AI Team – Medium

Imagine a day in the future when autonomous vehicles ply our roads. On the surface, these vehicles may bare a resemblance to cars of today, but underneath they will be bristling with high-resolution sensors and will rely on state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms to maneuver through the world. Sounds straightforward enough, but there is a problem. Barring an enormous breakthrough in communication systems, if we were to try to operate our autonomous cars through the current cloud computing infrastructure, the system would fail. The sheer volume and velocity of data generated would overload our networks and what's more, the latency and faultiness of remote computing would be dangerous.