BRAINE-project

Edge computing is an exciting new approach to network architecture that leaves behind cloud computing and places the intelligence for processing data closer to the sources. Inherently, this offers many technical advantages, such as reduced latency, secure decentralized processing and storage, scalability at lower complexity, versatility to adapt the nodes to the underlying application to be serviced, and increased reliability. Edge computing can dramatically boost services and applications by supporting artificial intelligence (AI) natively, instead of relying on AI in the cloud. Edge computing supporting AI (without cloud intervention) is the only technology that will enable many of the long-awaited game changers: Factory 4.0 and smart manufacturing, 5G, Internet-of-things, self-driving vehicles, remote robotics for healthcare, machine vision, among others.