The vision for the combination of 5G and the internet of things revolves around leveraging the low latency of next-generation cellular networks with sensor data to create efficiencies through lightning fast data processing in service of a wide range of applications like manufacturing automation, predictive maintenance and remote control of mobile assets.
For some time, large scale data analysis has been synonymous with centralized data centers capable of flexibly supporting a wide range of compute workloads. But that was before 5G.
