Qualcomm Edge Computing IoT Platform Targets Making Video Devices Smarter, Less Cloud Reliant
Qualcomm wants to make the connected home more intelligent and efficient, with a platform based on edge computing, it blogged Wednesday. The chipmaker announced the first in a family of SoCs for the development of IoT smart devices. A home…
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security camera that notifies a user every time it senses motion might be entertaining but not very useful. More compelling is a camera pointed to the front door that’s able to differentiate between a son or daughter who has been locked out or a burglar, it said. “This level of home security is possible, but it won’t happen overnight.” For such a camera to be effective, “it needs to be connected and intelligent enough to be able to process and analyze data in real time locally on the device, so it can recognize the things that matter and take immediate action,” it said. Rather than processing information in the cloud, the camera has intelligence to respond based on “what it knows,” it said, saying such integration will “push the IoT ecosystem forward, as developers move away from the cloud and focus on the capabilities of the device.”