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Edge and fog computing

Edge and fog computing

- [Narrator] The emergence of the Internet of Things is dramatically changing the way that we provision and use computing. We see the most dramatic examples of the Internet of Things in our everyday lives from connected and semi-autonomous vehicles to smart home devices that improve the way that we live and travel. However many of the applications of the Internet of Things occur out of our site. Industrial applications of IOT are transforming manufacturing and we're seeing the rise of microsatellites that bring scientific instruments and other devices into earth orbit and beyond. Even agriculture is changing dramatically with the sensors, information, and analytics that IoT makes possible. The cloud computing model doesn't always fit these applications. When your sensors are far away from cloud data centers and are either not connected to a network or connected by very low bandwidth connections, the model starts to break down. It simply doesn't make sense to transfer all of the data…

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