How Edge Technology is Expanding from a Collection of Hardware to Realize its Full Platform Potential

In his recent article for Smart Industry, Claudio Fayad, chief technology officer of Emerson’s Aspen Technology business, explains how making the most of the edge means looking at it from a different perspective. The evolving edge environment is a building block for a complete redefinition of the industrial edge. It’s not just a buzzword, says Fayad, but rather an architecture born of new technologies—many of which originated in the cloud. All of this ties into Emerson’s focus on designing the most flexible, scalable software-centric, AI-powered architectures available on the market today.