Whether your organisation is ready to invest extensively in IoT or you just want to get started with some edge computing devices, deploying an IoT Edge Computing Gateway will bring both short and long-term benefits. Let’s take a look at how it works.
Connecting IoT Devices
Similar to a universal remote control, an IoT-gateway saves you time and effort by allowing you to control all your devices from one location. Similarly, IoT edge computing gateways act as a central hub for data transfer between connected devices. Through the cloud, people and IoT devices are able to communicate with each other. When you send or receive information to or from IoT devices, you utilise IoT-gateways and cloud-enabled software to communicate with IoT devices.
On the other hand, IoT gateways allow more and more IoT devices and smart sensors to connect with each other, facilitating communication by filtering data into useful information and streamlining their function throughout the physical space.
Data Filtering
IoT edge computing gateways facilitate communication by filtering data into valuable information and enabling connectivity between devices. Since IoT devices can collect new data in fractions of a second, viewing every record would be pointless and would slow down their operation and connectivity.
An IoT edge computing gateway can operate at the edge, examining the data provided and analysing it before delivery. Only necessary data is sent to the cloud to reduce response times.
Translating Communication Between IoT Devices
While IoT devices are rapidly becoming integrated into our daily lives and new services and products are emerging to improve almost every area of our lives, there is currently no universal standard for IoT device language. As more IoT devices come on board, protocol translation gateways are becoming increasingly important as they make it easier to communicate with each other.
Enhancing Security
IoT devices raise more security concerns as more devices are added to the mix. All IoT devices are susceptible to external interference and hacking, but IoT gateways add another layer of security between the internet and the physical device.
The Intelligent Edge
IoT gateways are a prime example of the ‘active intelligent edge’. This means that data can be translated and processed by the IoT gateway itself, without the help of third-party entities or individuals.
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