Research on an Edge Computing Architecture for Industrial Applications

In response to the industry’s new needs for intelligent production, networked collaboration, personalized customization, and service-oriented transformation, this article studies on the special functions and performance indicators that edge computing equipment should have when applied in industry, proposes how to effectively use the open network, computing, and storage capabilities of edge computing at different network levels to provide an edge computing architecture that provides nearby edge intelligent services to be applied in industry. Taking the industrial process control optimization scenario as an example, the different uses of three edge computing devices are described, and the problems that can be solved by the application of industrial edge computing are explained. The industrial edge computing architecture described in this article can realize the cross-level transmission of data and provide an open and unified modeling capability for edge computing data, which is suitable for the design of new edge intelligent application scenarios in different industrial fields.