Internet of Things and Fog Computing
January 3, 2015
Grazed from SysConMedia. Author: Srinivasan Sundara Rajan.
IoT May Over Whelm Cloud: The potential adoption of the Internet of Things in industries like manufacturing, healthcare will definitely bring much needed automation and agility into the operations, but if they are not properly planned out these initiatives may lead into an explosion of data whose magnitude will simply derail the whole initiative or result in a huge cost of operations that will out smart the benefits they bring in.
As I mentioned in my last article, the concept of Fog Computing (which is term coined by CISCO) is more of an EDGE computing where by much of data analytics and decision making are happening to a location much closer to its source, leaving only certain kind of decision making to centralized cloud location…
The obvious advantages being:
- Decreased Volumes of Data pushed over the network
- Reduced storage needs on Cloud
- Faster Decision Making
- Enhanced Security while implementing the decisions at source…
Read more from the source @ http://www.sys-con.com/node/3269025