Video analytics for critical operations at the edge presents numerous challenges, including computing resources, server deployment, and systems integration. Cloud-based technologies can address the need to mix enterprise and embedded infrastructure to help reduce capital expense, operating expense, and points of failure.

In this article, IoT developers will learn:

• How legacy applications in VMs can be deployed on a single edge server and managed from the cloud
• About zero-touch provisioning that allows operational engineers to onboard devices seamlessly
• Which solutions were deployed to monitor flare stack operations at remote oil drilling sites