Fog Computing

Fog computing was coined by CISCO and envisages multiple compute points in an IOT network. Instead of the cloud being the sole compute engine gateways and other network infrastructure may have the resources ( being full fledged Linux devices) to pre process the data before sending to back end applications or sometime even processing it locally Edge computing by contrast implies only one local compute point (the gateway) and no usage of cloud or on premises resources

See Also

• IoT Architecture

• Why IoT needs Fog Computing