The Vital Role of Edge Computing in the Internet of Things

This research is designed to compare a cloud-only architecture approach to managing and processing IoT sensor data with a low-cost converged “edge computing” working in concert with cloud computing. The two equipment reference models in this research are the newly announced AWS IoT cloud service and the Pivot3 Server SAN with a time-series database. Both are cost leaders in their field.

As a result of this research and other work, Wikibon believes IoT systems will be safer, more reliable, lower cost and more functional using an Edge computing plus Cloud (private or public) approach.