The role of Fog Computing in IoT
A few months back everything was in the ‘cloud’ but the buzzword these days is ‘Fog Computing’ and it is related to how efficiently data is being stored and accessed. Basically, cloud computing is the ability to store and retrieve data from an off-site location. Cloud computing is a major reason how the traditional phones got smart. Our phones don’t have a lot of built in space in order to store information that is needed to access applications and services. All the data is being transmitted to and from the cloud in order to provide the services we need. But there is a problem with cloud computing technology, it’s the limitation of bandwidth. A report by World Economic Forum (WEF) predicted that U.S. ranks 35th in the world for bandwidth per user, this is a serious issue if you’re trying to transmit data wirelessly. The idea of Fog Computing attempts to beat some of these physical limitations. With Fog Computing technology, all the processing happens on devices physica