2016 IEEE Winter Academy on Internet of Things

Intelligence At the EDGE: Using Mobile Edge Computing to Deliver Consumer Centric IoT Services

Soumya Kanti Datta, EURECOM, France, Future Tech Lab, India

This tutorial highlights the challenges of cloud based IoT platforms that include supporting ultra-low latency and high mobility consumer IoT services. To mitigate these challenges, the industry is exploring edge computing (EC) as an alternative. Proximity to consumers, dense geographical distribution, support for mobility and availability of many powerful devices (e.g. smartphone, raspberry pi) are enabling the industry to utilize EC for video distribution, consumer IoT, localized analytics, edge caching of data, augmented reality and more. Connected vehicles scenarios will be utilized to further illustrate the requirements, architecture and building blocks of EC. The purpose of the tutorial is to highlight the intelligence at the edge and how it can be utilized to deliver consumer centric IoT services.