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Interesting idea, but why they are offloading heavy computation to the less powerful device? I don't see any device around me that is more powerful than my sma
by janci 7y ago
Interesting idea, but why they are offloading heavy computation to the less powerful device? I don't see any device around me that is more powerful than my smartphone. Except for the computer, for which it makes sense to run the computation at the first place.
- iudqnolq 7y agoAccording to them they can support 2x the objects with acceptable perf on the server compared to the client. It appears you intuition is wrong in this case.
- trevyn 7y agoThermals too, keeps your phone from getting hot?
- colordrops 7y agoIt seems to me they are suggesting adding more powerful processors to edge devices such as routers if this turns out to be a useful technique.
- homero 7y agoWith so many WiFi devices it would be very innovative to have my router expose a computation API. Nothing real time but why not move Fitbit data processing to the router and save my battery. Web workers are a great API. Upload the script then get the results later or upload directly.
- dspillett 7y agoThose other devices aren't running on battery power, which could be a significant factor. Also, there are many less powerful phones out there which may see greater benefit. And the "edge device" presumably doesn't have to be the absolute edge, perhaps another part of the edge infrastructure (in my home this could be the server that sits directly behind the wireless AP topologically speaking. And some APs do have significant computing power, they may not be taking about the cheapest router in existence provided by a penny-pinching ISP.