Fog Computing: a New IoT Architecture or IOE ?

What Is Fog Computing?

Fog computing – a term originally coined by Cisco. In contrast to the cloud, fog platforms have been described as dense computational architectures at the network’s edge. Characteristics of such platforms reportedly include low latency, location awareness and use of wireless access. Benefits include real-time analytics and improved security.

While edge computing or edge analytics may exclusively refer to performing analytics at devices that are on, or close to, the network’s edge, a fog computing architecture would perform analytics on anything from the network center to the edge.

Fog computing “will provide ample opportunities for creating new applications and services that cannot be easily supported by the current host-based and cloud-based application platforms,” Antunes continues. “For example, new fog-based security services will be able to help address many challenges we are facing in helping to secure the Internet of Things.”