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Bunmi Ekundare
Bunmi Ekundare
Corporate Responsibility Director
Intel Corporate Affairs Worldwide at Intel Corporation
Accomplished Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) professional and program director, leading the world-class global annual CSR and Environmental Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) reporting programs, including effectively engaging and managing 3rd party assurance processes and validation of CSR/ESG data and content in alignment with best-known industry standards for Intel corporation.
In the environment part of our Environmental Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) program, we focus on reducing our own climate impact resulting from our own operations, our supply chain, and the marketing and use of our products. We also work to identify ways that Intel technology, such as our Edge Computing network, can reduce the use of electricity and further reduce our emissions. Our Intel Network used the technology of Edge Computing to benefit our company, including improving data security by reducing the amount of data transmitted and processed in the cloud, keeping sensitive data on user devices, and reducing the risk of data compromise.
For instance, when there are huge amounts of data, let’s say the players’ gaming data of a game, the game data would originally be sent to the game company’s central database to process. However, this process of sending back data to central databases and sending it back to players for them to use would need a large amount of time and electricity, causing risks of personal data leaking and slower internet connection that causes lag due to the large amount of data that have been sent.
Thus, we choose to use Edge Computing to distribute data closer to our clients or end users to reduce lag, ensure personal data privacy, and reduce electricity use to serve our ESG Environmental goals.
The benefits of using Edge Computing:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/edge-computing/what-is-the-network-edge.html
Increase speed and lower latency (lag)
Moving data processing and analysis to the edge helps speed system response, enabling faster transactions and better experiences that could be vital in near-real-time applications.
Improved network traffic management
Minimizing the amount of data sent over the network to the cloud can reduce the bandwidth and costs of transmitting and storing large volumes of data.
Greater reliability
The amount of data that networks can transmit at one time is limited. For locations with subpar internet connectivity, being able to store and process data at the edge improves reliability when the cloud connection is disrupted.
Enhanced security features
An edge computing solution may help increase data security by limiting the transmission of data over the internet. In healthcare, for example, there may even be local or regional requirements to limit the storage or transmission of personal data.
Agility and scalability
With the ability to distribute computing strategically across the network, companies can ensure applications settle in the place of the highest value and make the best use of their resources. This opens up a range of opportunities, such as establishing new services, targeting service delivery between localized markets, or expanding capacity without the need to open a new data center.
These two figures show how data has been processed in Edge Computing.
First, you have random data from a cloud center, and it has to be sent to a core network center (e.g., the download pack you have in games).
Next, you will connect to your edge network, which is your own internet connection (e.g., your Wi-Fi or 5G) and your own devices (on-premise edge, e.g., your phone or laptop).
Then, different from the traditional data process, your device will not have to send back all of your game data to let you keep going on your game process, but just process and save the data on your devices and only send part of the crucial data back to the central network.
In other words, each device is an edge that can help our clients process their data, reducing the workload of the central network and thus improving the efficiency of the whole data process.
Intel Edge Computing Facts Source link:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/edge-computing/what-is-the-network-edge.html
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/opinion/defining-leading-edge.html#gs.1bb0tp
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