Lars Reger, Chief Technology Officer and SVP Technology at NXP Semiconductors, will talk about ‘Safe Computing at the Edge’ and Preeti Nagarajan, Head of Strategy for Networks at Ericsson will present ‘Enabling Technologies and the Future of Networks’.
Lars Reger will explore the challenges en route to an ever smarter on-demand world. Advances in two areas have spurred the evolution of electronics in the last few years: connectivity on the one side, storage and processing power of the cloud on the other. They were the starting point for manufacturers to make their devices smarter: from a wristwatch to a connected vehicle. Smarter than a stand-alone device could ever be, and in addition, capable of self-learning.
However, the cloud has reached its limits: to reliably monitor an entire production site or drive a fully autonomous car through traffic, processing all data in the cloud becomes simply too slow, too bandwidth-hungry, and too insecure as a single point of service. Therefore, edge computing is where the action is and will be; directly at the smart device.