Cloud models for IoT are not designed for the volume, variety, and velocity of data that the IoT generates. Billions of connected IoT devices generate a huge amount of data every day. Moving all the data to the cloud for analysis would require bandwidth and time. When the data goes to the cloud for analysis, the opportunity to act on it may not remain. To address that concern, fog computing is developed.
What is fog computing?
The term fog computing refers to extending cloud computing to the edge of an enterprise’s network. As said above, IoT devices consume cloud services and generate a huge amount of data. Using fog computing, the data gathered by the IoT devices can be processed close to where the data is generated up to a certain extent instead of analyzing the whole of it in the clouds.
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