Edge computing means various things to different industries. For Christie Rice, director of business development for retail at Intel’s Internet of Things Group, and Richard Newman, CTO and co-founder at Reliant, edge computing is all about the retail experience.
“For a lot of enterprises, particularly the ones that we focus on in retail and hospitality, the edge is where they do business in the physical world,” Newman said. “And the question then becomes how do the applications that they deploy at the edge manifest themselves? What type of applications are they, and where do they run?”
Edge computing means various things to different industries. For Christie Rice, director of business development for retail at Intel’s Internet of Things Group, and Richard Newman, CTO and co-founder at Reliant, edge computing is all about the retail experience.
“For a lot of enterprises, particularly the ones that we focus on in retail and hospitality, the edge is where they do business in the physical world,” Newman said. “And the question then becomes how do the applications that they deploy at the edge manifest themselves? What type of applications are they, and where do they run?”