Edge AI - Driving Next-Gen AI Applications in 2024
Edge AI processes data and runs artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms on a local device rather than relying on a distant cloud server, offering benefits like lower latency, enhanced privacy, reduced bandwidth, and real-time local processing. It powers applications in smart devices, virtual assistants, healthcare, manufacturing, and logistics. While offering advantages, edge AI also introduces security risks and vulnerabilities due to processing data on less protected devices.
Wiki. This is happening now. This is not the future.
In 2018, the world's data was expected to grow 61 percent to 175 zettabytes by 2025.
According to research firm Gartner, around 10 percent of enterprise-generated data is created and processed outside a traditional centralized data center or cloud. By 2025, the firm predicts that this figure will reach 75 percent. The increase in IoT devices at the edge of the network is producing a massive amount of data — storing and using all that data in cloud data centers pushes network bandwidth requirements to the limit.
Despite the improvements in network technology, data centers cannot guarantee acceptable transfer rates and response times, which often is a critical requirement for many applications.
Furthermore, devices at the edge constantly consume data coming from the cloud, forcing companies to decentralize data storage and service provisioning, leveraging physical proximity to the end user. In a similar way, the aim of edge computing is to move the computation away from data centers towards the edge of the network, exploiting smart objects, mobile phones, or network gateways to perform tasks and provide services on behalf of the cloud. By moving services to the edge, it is possible to provide content caching, service delivery, persistent data storage, and IoT management resulting in better response times and transfer rates. At the same time, distributing the logic to different network nodes introduces new issues and challenges.
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