Closed mtrifiro closed 5 years ago
This leads to further categorization of Device Edge into
Resource Constrained Device - Usually transducers (sensor & actuator systems) that are battery-powered, exhibit power-saving sleep cycles and have low memory and compute on-board. (Ref: https://www.rti.com/blog/announcing-the-dds-xrce-specification-a-protocol-for-sensor-networks)
Gateway Device - Act as a) bridge to Access Edge Layer by providing connectors/adapters for industrial protocols used by resource constrained devices and b) Run Data Reduction function for resource constrained devices.
Happy to send a pull request if there's consensus on this.
I like that separation of the device edge layers, and it mirrors the access and aggregation layers within the infrastructure edge.
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Resource Constrained Device A subcategory of the device edge, referring to devices on the device edge side of the last mile network which are often battery-powered and may operate for extended periods of time in a power-saving mode. These devices are typically connected locally to a gateway device, which in turn transmits and receives data generated by and directed to them from sources outside of the local network, such as a data analysis application operating in an edge data center at the infrastructure edge.
Gateway Device A subcategory of the device edge, referring to devices on the device edge side of the last mile network which operate as gateways for other local devices, with the goal of aggregating and faciliating data transference between local devices, many of which are battery-operated and may operate for extended periods in a low-power state, and external entities such as a data analysis application operating inside an edge data center at the infrastructure edge.
Potentially useful fodder of the The Taxonomy Project
From: How stealth startup Edgeworx helped me rethink the IoT edge