Hands-On Industrial Internet of Things

Analytics on the edge

On-edge analytics are the newest class of analytics in the IoT and the oldest class of analytics in the industrial sector. Indeed, industries started developing analytics on the controller from the beginning. Recently, the idea that everything should be cloud-based has become less important and vendors have started deploying cloud analytics on the edge. This is described in more detail later on in this chapter.

There are three use cases in which it is important to deploy analytics on the edge:

• If you have high sampling data, such as the vibration of a turbine
• If you have a policy restriction regarding sending data outside the region
• If you require low latency

Let's discover the most interesting techniques to implement ...