Chapter 1, Introduction to Edge Analytics, outlines how everything old is new again! The rise of the personal computer in the 1980s and 1990s led to a revolution in computing. Instead of so-called dumb terminals connected to a large computer, many computers were connected in a network spreading the processing power around. Edge analytics is like the personal computer revolution but for Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. We will start this chapter by comparing edge analytics to the computer revolution before we discuss the advantages of using edge analytics in an IoT application. We will both look at the basic edge analytics architecture and introduce the Microsoft Azure IoT Edge platform.
Chapter 2, How Does IoT Edge ...
