04-21-2020, 07:33 AM
There is a lot of talk about Cloud computing and the advantages of moving applications to the cloud to simplify the computing skills and expensive equipment required on each manufacturing site. For applications where there is relatively infrequent use of the software such as accounting or design or MES, this works well.
However, for the latest possibilities bought about be comunication protocols like umati, the quantity of data can be potentially very large and continuous as it is coming from sensors on the machine.
The problem here is the limitation of bandwidth and lag in response, attempting to send such large volumes of data all the time. This is covered by edge computing, a concept which processes this type of data locally and sends the processed information from it to the cloud in batches. This still makes use of the data, extracting the useful part locally and sending that to the cloud to be used and combined with other data to give the user the required results and reports.
However, for the latest possibilities bought about be comunication protocols like umati, the quantity of data can be potentially very large and continuous as it is coming from sensors on the machine.
The problem here is the limitation of bandwidth and lag in response, attempting to send such large volumes of data all the time. This is covered by edge computing, a concept which processes this type of data locally and sends the processed information from it to the cloud in batches. This still makes use of the data, extracting the useful part locally and sending that to the cloud to be used and combined with other data to give the user the required results and reports.
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