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by coffeesn0b 2857 days ago
It’s more about network outages than latency specifically... although in several remote locations latency is permanently low due to slow providers.
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Credit card transactions, mobile orders, timer synchronization, order receiving (tablets etc), iot devices (cameras, cooking devices) and other things planned for the future.
Ok, lets go thru that list:

- Credit-card transactions don't have low-latency requirements, its 'nice' if they're quick, same as everything else. The bottleneck here is entirely dependent on your ISP tho. No 'edge-computing' here.

- Mobile orders. This will necessarily go thru to a central server. This is traditional client-server stuff. Again, no 'edge-compute'.

- Order receiving. Simple local data entry. Again, no 'edge-compute'.

- IoT devices. Hopefully these have local control systems without the server being in the loop. Control systems are not 'edge-compute' either.

'Edge-compute' is generation of knowledge at the edge rather than shipping raw data to a central server. This reduces required bandwidth.

What in your system takes a high rate of data and generates a low-rate of data for transfer to a server for further use. I see no analysis of raw data into a more processed form, this is simply traditional data entry and CRUD activites.

But again, latency of what?

Requirement for low-latency implies a use of data that is time-sensitive.

What time-sensitive data is there in a single chicken restaurant??