Edge Device What is an edge device?
Edge devices are computing devices near the network's edge, usually near data sources or consumers. These play a pivotal role in real-time applications and IoT deployments. Their local data processing prowess significantly reduces latency and response time, surpassing the capabilities of traditional data centers or clouds. Before dispatching data to central servers or other devices, these devices meticulously aggregate, filter, and analyze it. They run the gamut from simple sensors to complex industrial systems. They are scanners and smartphones, medical devices and scientific instruments, autonomous vehicles and automated machines.
- Why are edge devices needed?
- What does an edge device do?
- What’s the difference between an edge and non-edge device?
- HPE and edge devices
Why are edge devices needed?
There are already many times more edge devices on the planet than people, generating more than two-thirds of enterprise data—and growing. And as the number of edge devices and the volume of data they generate continue to multiply, it becomes progressively more difficult, even impossible, to control those devices and process that information from the data center, or even in the cloud. Intelligent edge devices capable of analyzing and using data when and where they generate it are critical to the future of distributed computing.
