In this white paper from KnarrTek, Peter Green traces the evolution of the BellHawk barcode and RFID job and materials-tracking system. Green recounts the system’s development from its early days, using a client-server architecture, to running at a remote data center in the cloud, to utilizing an Industrial Internet of Things edge-computing architecture. This document looks at each stage of the system’s evolution, the forces that drove change, the advantages and disadvantages of each architecture, and how it now employs a hybrid of cloud and edge computing. (11 pages)
