Real-time Inventory Management
Real-time Inventory Management
Collection of large amounts of data in real-time provides awareness of the position and status of goods. Visibility on what stock is where in the supply chain at any given time provides granularity at the individual product level.
Industries adopting this use case include
Manufacturing
Retail
Use Case Archetype
Data intensive: Use cases where the amount of data makes it impractical to transfer over the network directly to the cloud, or from the cloud to the point-of-use, because of data volume, cost or bandwidth issues.
Human latency sensitive
Machine to machine latency sensitive
Life critical
Edge Infrastructure Model
Device
Edge
location
Smart devices (e.g. in vehicle, street lamp, IoT)
no. of racks
0
power
Up to 1kW
Tenancy
Single Tenant
External environment
Controlled (within Device), Harsh & Rugged
Passive infrastructure
May or may not have power and filtration, no cooling etc.
Micro
Edge
location
Enterprise site (e.g. retail, factory floor, IT closet)
no. of racks
0 - 4 racks
power
Up to 20kW
Tenancy
Single Tenant
External environment
IT Closet, Commercial & Office, Harsh & Rugged
Passive infrastructure
Has power with limited cooling and filtration, etc.
Distributed Edge
Data Center
location
Enterprise site (e.g. warehouse, office), telecoms site, parking lot, tier 2/3 city
no. of racks
5 - 20 racks
power
Up to 200kW
Tenancy
Single Tenant / Multi-tenant
External environment
Harsh & Rugged, Commercial & Office, Conditioned & Controlled
Passive infrastructure
Tier 1+
Regional Edge
Data Center
location
Tier 2/3 city
no. of racks
20+ racks
power
Up to 4000kW
Tenancy
Multi-tenant
External environment
Conditioned & Controlled
Passive infrastructure
Tier 3+
Workload Characteristics
