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It’s not edge vs. cloud—it’s both

An Automation World survey reveals both cloud and edge computing are central to IIoT-enabled predictive maintenance and performance monitoring applications, each at different stages of the journey.

Almost half of the respondents (43 percent) to a recent Automation World survey already have edge computing implementations underway.
Almost half of the respondents (43 percent) to a recent Automation World survey already have edge computing implementations underway.

In the world of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), the noisy debate over cloud vs. edge computing masks a key fact: Manufacturers are mapping out a route that covers both, each an integral on-ramp for new predictive maintenance and performance monitoring applications at different stops on the journey.

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