Edge Computing often misquoted, misrepresented, and misunderstood. In this presentation, I tried to demystify what the Edge Computing is and what role the edge computing plays in the Connected World.

1. Syam Madanapalli | IEEE World Forum on IoT | August 24, 2020
The Role of Edge Computing
Enabling the AI driven Connected Ecosystem for Outcome-based/Pull Economy
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2. Agenda
• The spatiotemporal event handling
• Security, interoperability and
scalability of connected
applications
• Enabling the connected ecosystem
• Coherent end user experience
• IEEE P1931.1 - The Roof Computing
for the IoT Edge
DemystifyIng the Edge Computing
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3. The Autonomy
Act Local - Think Global
An application should function
autonomously in a secure manner within
the context of a local environment. And,
connect to the global Internet for more
value creation.
Act local
Think global
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4. The Spatiotemporal Event Handling
Time
Edge
Fog
Cloud
Realtime
Near
Realtime
Future
If (this) then
(plan)
If (this) then
(optimize)
If (this) then
(act)
If (this) then
(react)
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5. Security for the Connected Devices/Applications
Constrained
Devices
Big Scale
Tech Illiterates
Lack of UI, challenging
to design & con
f
igure,
and prone to errors
Applications & devices
are personal, and
involves humans &
physical world
Variety of devices,
protocols, &
applications
Big Impact
Safety & economic risks,
loss of privacy and
business interruptions
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6. Horizontalization
Vendor A Vendor B
Service
Vendor & Technology Independent
Edge
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7. Enabling the Connected Ecosystem
Edge
Partners
Factory
Workers &
Employees
Departments
Customers
Cloud Platform Process Digital Twin Applications
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8. Enabling the Coherent
User Experience
Edge is the best place to manage the
data sharing, con
f
iguration, key
management, security, software
updates, privacy, new devices/apps
and bringing coherent user
experience across the devices/
applications/enterprise
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9. Scalability
Semi-autonomous
Act autonomously in local environment
and connect to cloud and the rest of the
world for more value creation.
Reuse
A model the can be repeated to build
large scale connected applications, e.g. a
Smart City.
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10. DataSecurityContextConnectivity
IEEE P1931.1 - The Roof Computing
Big data &
applications
Data & application
management
Constrained
devices
Computing for
security
State &
environment
Realtime & of
f
line
computing
Things,
protocols, data
Interoperability
& usability
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11. The Roof Experience
Innovation
UserExperience
Con
f
ig. & SW updates
Context building rules
Secure provisioning
Manage
privacy
Roof
Store
Vendor Community
Service
Provider
Context
Realtime actions
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12. The Roof Security Architecture
Communication
Security Negotiation
Resource Owner
Security Manager
Resource ServerClient
Security Provisioning
Security Provisioning
Security Provisioning
Security Provisioning
Cloud
Roof
Things
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13. The Roof Advantages
Low barrier
Innovation
Secure
Better experience
Realtime
Federated & Scalable
Democratization
Entrepreneurship
New business models
More trust
More applications
Realtime response
Autonomous systems
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14. Thank you!
Syam Madanapalli
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