| |June 20189CIOReviewin each and every complex. The way I visualize in terms of edge comput-ing is that it is coming closer to the source of generation of data.But there are many challenges associated to it. Let us take another example of Smart Cities. While they are good to talk about, they being smart and intelligently connected. The challenge in the smart city in this context is for the person who is going to oversee the integration of all the services and utilities that are being offered to the customer. Let me elaborate further with another simple analogy. For those of you familiar with Delhi NCR know that the Delhi Metro is governed by one body, the road transport is governed by another body, the footpath and other amenities are provided by a separate body. But at the end of the day, when you see the interconnec-tion of all these three things, there is no parking lot for the public trans-port near the metro station and typi-cally it creates a bottleneck where the intersection happens at all these 'points of connect'. Here, a need arises to have some kind of over-laying authority which can identify the bottlenecks or blind spots when arises from the infrastructure not be-ing really relevant or maybe the in-frastructure has been done based on one governing body's understanding of their data which may be com-pletely different from the other's. A similar situation will arise with Edge Computing as well. There are different players in Edge Comput-ing - you have got the IT guys like the Intels and Dells, and you've got the networking guys coming into play like the Ciscos and Junipers of the world. Then you have got the telco guys who are playing a part in carrying the infrastructure. The im-portant thing is how these various aspects of the industry are going to co-work with each other and remove the bottlenecks which will arise ­ with the volume of data that is going to emerge from IoT ­ which the end consumer is going to generate.THE REJIGGED EDGE COMPUTINGThere are three emerging Edge Computing technologies for IoT. One is called as Cloud let-which is nothing but a smaller version of the cloud. The smaller clouds which are closer to the edge. The second one is called MEC or Mobile Edge Computing. There is a lot of data that will be generated from mobile and iPads and now this data again needs to be transported back not completely into the cloudlet but it needs low latency, relatively high bandwidth (so you have some kind of video networking) which is where MEC comes in. The third technolo-gy that is emerging is what we called the Fog Computing. Now, when you look at the networks which are emerging, you are looking a cloud-let network, then you are looking at Mobile Edge Computing. Now, there are lots of resources which are being utilized across all these three computing platforms. In any computing platforms includ-ing storage etc., there are lots of re-sources that are being underutilized. So Fog Computing is like a horizon-tal layer which cuts across all these three and allows resources to be optimized across all these three net-works. While technology leaders and the various consortiums are talking about all these trends, these technol-ogies are being governed by the con-sumer behaviour and the consumer adoption of varied technologies.BUCKLING UP OF INFRA IN INDIAEven though we have various tel-ecom companies that claim the req-uisite infrastructure to be available but that is not the scenario. You have various telecom companies ad-vertising that they have the fastest and the biggest `telco network' avail-able. But honestly even today when one goes outside, the main network service is pitiable. So, what needs to be done? All the parties concerned have to ensure proper availability of infrastructure and secondly, it's the person who is making the decision or is in that position to decide to deploy these technologies. From the enterprise part, we are looking up to the CIOs and CTOs who deploy technology in their organization. They have to be bold enough to take the risk in terms of deploying these technologies. The combination of individuals trying to make that bold step and the other agencies that are involved are trying to provide the in-frastructure.Unless the government's and other stakeholder's initiatives are put together, there will be a delay in incorporating these while intercon-necting. So, that kind of push and incentive have to be there for a fast-paced framework. IoT and how consumers are going to adopt it in different nations for different uses for differently available infrastructure becomes vital
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