1. Optimize operations in real time

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Ishu Verma, technical evangelist at Red Hat, adds that the core-to-edge flow is where organizations can extend the same practices and technologies they use in the cloud or on-premises to their edge nodes, even in the harshest industrial environments.

“This approach allows companies to extend advanced technologies to the edge — microservices, GitOps, security, etc.,” he says. “This allows edge systems to be managed and operated using the same processes, tools, and resources as they would on centralized sites or in the cloud.”

Let's look at four examples of how industrial organizations are using edge computing within these two streams.

Traditional SCADA and other control systems are like bulgaria mobile database or legacy applications in many other industries - important, but not particularly user-friendly or flexible for today's environment.

“Traditional SCADA and control systems infrastructure tends to be closed and vendor-specific,” Nelson says. “IoT/edge deployments can help monitor operations in real time from a single pane of glass, rather than jumping between systems.”

Monitoring and predictive maintenance are good examples in this category: sensors and instruments in a plant can be used to provide real-time information and help operators better plan when critical maintenance and other work will be needed. In the past, this was more difficult due to data silos—a familiar problem for CIOs at many enterprises.