Edge Networking

10The Example of Green Communications

Today, it is common to use a smartwatch and a mobile application to ask for information about your heartbeat, sleep quality, stress level, etc. When the associated IoT services are hosted on clouds located in California, this requires information to travel to California and back to you to provide an answer. This long travel raises concerns about privacy, energy consumption, security and sovereignty of your data. Lengthy data travel introduces very high latency for critical applications such as connected surgery or safety in a connected vehicle.

Moving IoT services to the edge of the Internet network near the end device to keep local data local seems like common sense. The Edge offers significant advantages in terms of throughput, personal or sensitive data control and reduced power consumption of the Internet and data centers. But the Edge is limited to local coverage. Non-local, mobile and large-scale IoT projects such as autonomous transportation, smart cities, utilities, telemedicine, manufacturing automation, etc., still need to use Internet and cloud resources.

Green Communications innovates and creates the equivalent of a large cloud at the edge by federating multiple mobile Edges via secure tunnels without a central Cloud. These collaborative Edge Clouds form an Internet of Edges (IoE) where IoT data is processed locally and travels among Edges for greater data correlation. In this way, the IoE of Green Communications brings large-scale ...