Edge Computing: Bringing Intelligence Closer to Where the Action Happens
Posted by Prof. Kapil Gautam, Department of Information Technology 10 March 2024 As someone who has been teaching Information Technology for over twenty years in engineering colleges in Delhi, I’ve seen plenty of buzzwords come and go. But edge computing is one idea that genuinely feels important right now. I’ve been spending more time on it in my lectures this semester because it changes how we think about data and processing in a very practical way. For years we got used to the idea that all heavy computing happens in big central cloud data centres far away. You collect data from phones, sensors or machines, send it over the internet, wait for the cloud to process it, and then get the answer back. It worked fine when things weren’t time-critical. But by 2023, with millions of connected devices generating data every second, that round-trip delay started becoming a real problem. Edge computing simply moves the processing closer to the place where the data is actually created — on th...