What Is Edge Analytics?
Search Business Analytics, Tuesday, February 27th, 2024
Edge analytics is an approach to data collection and analysis in which an automated analytical computation is performed on data at a sensor, network switch or other device instead of waiting for the data to be sent back to a centralized data store.
Edge analytics has gained attention as the internet of things (IoT) model of connected devices has become more prevalent. In many organizations, streaming data from manufacturing systems, industrial equipment, pipelines and other remote devices connected to the IoT creates a massive glut of operational data, which can be difficult -- and expensive -- to manage. By running the data through an analytics algorithm as it's created -- at the edge of a corporate network -- companies can set parameters on what information is or isn't worth sending to a cloud or on-premises data store for later use.