EDGE COMPUTING CATEGORIES AND QUESTIONS

Device:
o    Sensors
o    Internet connectivity
o    Battery consumption
o    Field Gateway
o    Communication protocols (HTTP, AMQP, MQTT, Gateway)
o    Format of the telegrams sent to the cloud (JSON, Avro, etc.)

Data:
o    Number of devices & number of signals
o    Amount of data to transfer per day
– Event-based or batched or mix
– Transfer rate (every second, minute, hour)
o    Device timestamps
– Synchronized timestamps with cloud or not
– Local buffering on device, late and/or repeated data
o    Any time-critical notifications / alarms
– Latency expectations for non-time critical data
– Alarms generated by device and/or by cloud platform
o    Cloud-to-device messages & commands
o    Analytics
– Results from time-series data / Streaming analytics
– Analytics workflows on data, machine learning etc.
– Edge analytics / intelligence

Cost expectations:
o    Retention periods (for reporting purposes)
o    Aggregation of data, possibilities for cost saving

External integrations:
o    Reference data / online data

Administration, rights and access:
o    Requirements for multi-tenancy (segregated owners)
o    Owners/tenants and operators/technicians
o    Administrating access to data, auditing use
o    API management, consumption of data, 3rd party integrators

Operation:
o    KPI measurements for device
o    KPI measurements for cloud platform
o    Requirements on operators and SLA’s

User-interfaces and functions:
o    Operators/technicians
o    Customers/end-users