Right Now, It’s Not About VR and Autonomous Cars: See Which Edge Applications and Edge Platforms Are Ready To Go Today

With all the hype of edge computing and edge cloud, everyone is now claiming to have products that are focused on the “Edge”. This branding and edge washing has created a lot of confusion around “What is the Edge”, “Where is the Edge” and “Who owns the Edge”?

Furthermore, the futuristic view around autonomous cars, virtual reality and remote surgery is over used: is this the best we can do for use cases for edge? At my recent EdgeNext Summit event, Yves Boudreau, VP of Partnerships and Ecosystem Strategy for Edge Gravity by Ericsson, presents what they have learned in the 12 months on real edge computing and which applications are likely to exemplify the near team user of the edge. Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxm9mpltXv8