The digitization of everyday processes means that data that was not accessible before can now be both gathered and analyzed in an affordable manner. In many cases, the computation of that data is happening in or around local devices (a concept referred to as edge computing). The emergence of new industrial edge applications across private industries such as oil and gas, mining, telecommunications and public entities such as municipalities, has opened the door to many new opportunities for solution deployments in outdoor environments. For resellers, integrators, distributors, and consulting engineers, this represents potential growth in new business areas. However, the deployment of such solutions requires a different mix of product, delivery and service specifications from what is commonly found in a traditional data center and network offerings. Many edge computing and industrial edge solutions focus on the capture, processing and analysis of local information often with a limited ...
