Abstract:Internet of Things (IoT) designers frequently must determine whether action-oriented decisions should be made by edge computers or whether they should be made only by central servers combining input from all edge computers. An important example of this design problem occurs in fire protection IoT where individual edge computers attached to sensors might be empowered to make decisions (have decision rights) about how to manage the fire. Alternately, decision rights could be held exclusively by a central server … Show more
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