Demo Abstract: Crowd analysis with infrared sensor arrays on the smart city edge

Smart cities infrastructure is currently highly centralised, relying on data centers or cloud technology to tackle diverse application requirements. To reduce the transmission latency and the data volume towards the cloud infrastructure, a next step to be explored includes the introduction of edge computing into such an environment, bringing the computational power closer to the Internet of Things devices. In this paper we present a hands-on demo smart city edge computing application. It shows the advantages of edge computing by analyzing incoming sensor data on people movement via edge computing, which results in faster processing, lower latency, and lower bandwidth consumption.