Overview
What do the rise of 5G, Industry 4.0 Smart Manufacturing, Smart Nation, Self-driving cars have in common? They all rely on the distributed IoT paradigm known as “Edge Computing”.
Edge Computing promises reduced latency and improved privacy by processing data using artificial intelligence and machine learning near where the action is happening – as close as possible to the sensors and IoT “things” layers. Unlike the centralised processing on cloud servers, Edge Computing is more appliable to time-sensitive, mission-critical applications, and supports locality and redundancy by distributing the processing across nearby nodes.
According to Telenavio, the development of 5G telecommunication networks and connected automation infrastructure in many industry, healthcare and transport domains will have a significant impact on the market value of the Edge and Fog Computing within the next few years. In addition, deep learning algorithms have been squeezed into smaller and smaller devices with the development of TinyML, Tensorflow Lite for Microcontrollers, etc.
The combination of both factors – higher bandwidth communications and better ability to do intelligent processing on embedded devices – will bring about a rise in Edge Computing applications. This is also why Amazon and Microsoft are heavily investing in Edge Computing infrastructure and micro data centers, such as Azure IoT Edge, AWS IoT, AWS Wavelength.
This is 4-day programme is intended for anyone who wishes to gain specialised knowledge in the exciting cutting-edge world of Edge Computing systems. This course will benefit those working in medical, manufacturing, defense, transport, and any domains that can utilise automation with sensor data.
Participants will gain in-depth knowledge as well as practical skills through projects and assessment that reinforce their learning and engage their newly acquired knowledge. Hands-on workshops are conducted in Python using Docker and Tensorflow on Raspberry Pi.
- Design Edge compute systems to provide multi-level intelligence for IoT, transducers and other devices, using the OpenFog Reference Architecture.
- Build data collection, analytics, and decision-making capabilities into these Edge compute systems, using the IOTA distributed ledger.
- Integrate machine learning and analytics into Edge Computing to perform decision-making, self-healing, and self-learning, using Tensorflow on Raspberry Pi.
This course is part of the Software Systems series and Graduate Certificate in Architecting Smart Systems series offered by NUS-ISS.
To get a sneak peek inside the course, this course was featured during NUS eOpenHouse 2020 (Day 4: online learning a gesture recognizer):