IoT research firm Machnation has produced a free whitepaper Five requirements of a leading IoT edge platform that identifies what, in Machination’s view are five capabilities needed for an IoT edge platform.
- extensive protocol support for data ingestion
- robust capability for offline functionality
- cloud-based orchestration capabilities to support device lifecycle management
- hardware-agnostic scalable architecture
- comprehensive analytics and visualization tools
The whitepaper discusses these five capabilities and presents three real-life use cases of enterprises using IoT edge platforms today.
According to MachNation definitions, IoT edge computing is a technology architecture that brings certain computational and analytics capabilities near the point of data generation.
“IoT edge computing enables certain processes to occur in an optimal location to create more secure, reliable and scalable IoT deployments,” it says.
An IoT deployment using edge computing takes advantage of connected IoT devices or gateways that offer functionality in areas such as device integration, data ingestion, data processing, analytics and device management.”
