IDG Contributor Network: 5 of the best data analytics platforms that use the edge

There will be an estimated 20.4 billion connected things by 2020, placing an extreme pressure on network systems. The vast amount of data generated by these smart sensors and devices is currently largely being processed in the cloud or data centres, which will not be adequate for long. The necessity is arising for another way to handle the quantities of data, and that is edge computing.The edge computing model comprises sensors and connected devices to communicate with a gateway device, instead