Smart Transportation: An Edge-Cloud Hybrid Computing Perspective

Internet of things is enhancing various industries by connecting all devices to the Internet to solve key challenges. Transportation is a huge sector where extensive research and development is undergoing. The current developments by various independent corporate research companies use the power of cloud computing for storage and processing of data. With the need for quicker decision-making in critical services, a new paradigm, called edge computing is under research, where latency is tackled. Since, each has its own limitations, a new approach is given that involves both these paradigms—called hybrid computing. We would like to discuss the merits and demerits of each of these paradigms and propose two variants of hybrid computing with respect to smart transportation and smart tires in specific.