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To borrow a term from Microsoft, "Intelligent Edge." With the shift to the cloud, we are finding there are still many scenarios that should start local for late
by topkai22 7y ago
To borrow a term from Microsoft, "Intelligent Edge." With the shift to the cloud, we are finding there are still many scenarios that should start local for latency, bandwidth, or legal considerations. Organizations still want those scenarios to be easy to manage though.
An example might be in store retail analytics- a set up with a bunch of cameras that can detect what people are touching or otherwise interested in. It makes little sense to ship the video streams all the way back to a cloud provider, but orgs want the capability all the same.
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- paulkon 7y agoHow do you create a recurring subscription model without gating the service in the cloud as a SaaS? /s (or maybe not..)
- antisemiotic 7y ago>An example might be in store retail analytics- a set up with a bunch of cameras that can detect what people are touching or otherwise interested in. Because the one thing desperately needed in this world is even more surveillance?
- goodfight 7y agoThis already happens with bluetooth phones in stores. They simply ping you from an array and can track your movement throughout the store.
- topkai22 7y agoMost retail stores have been heavily surveilled for a long time by cctv for shoplifting purposes. One, perhaps naive, hope I have for edge based technologies is to enable scenarios that are actually more private. In my scenario, if the processing of the video stays at the edge and only anonymized or aggregated information is sent up to the cloud/ larger organization, then is much better then if the video is shipped offsite and processed. It’ll take some interesting legislative efforts to really frame this well, but the Europeans (and the state or Illinois with their facial recognition law?) at least seem to be headed that way.