Unleashing the power of AI at the edge

Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into enterprise edge ecosystems is a strategic imperative. AI at the edge delivers unprecedented speed, efficiency, and agility that impacts business outcomes by enhancing operational efficiency, reducing latency, and unlocking new avenues for innovation. But success at the edge demands a unified, simplified way to deploy, manage, and scale locations without ready access to IT staff. Dell NativeEdge is ready to help you reach your edge AI goals.

AI has rapidly become an enterprise imperative, providing efficiency gains, real-time insights, and new levels of innovation for early adopters. Deploying AI at the edge is an important part of an overall AI strategy that aligns outcomes with business needs and objectives.

Implementing AI algorithms directly on local edge devices, such as sensors or Internet of Things (IoT) devices, enables local processing and analysis for real-time decision-making, and models can continue to function even when connectivity is lost. These two abilities are crucial for applications like autonomous vehicles or industrial automation. What’s more, transmitting only relevant data to the cloud reduces network traffic for better bandwidth efficiency. And keeping the data local enhances privacy and security.

As AI continues to evolve, the need to deploy cutting-edge models on edge devices will become increasingly important. Ensuring efficient deployment can be achieved by connecting these devices to continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, which enables rapid model updates. This process also involves establishing a closed-loop system, where models are quickly retrained and redistributed to edge devices, thereby maintaining optimal performance and facilitating continuous improvement.

To gain AI advantage at the edge, organizations will need to overcome the challenges of managing, scaling, and securing distributed edge environments. Finding solutions that simplify edge operations is critical for success.

Automate deployment, management, and scale at the edge

Dell NativeEdge is an edge operations software platform that uses automation to help enterprises easily deploy, manage, and scale edge AI infrastructure and innovative AI applications across locations from a single pane of glass. With the ability to consolidate siloed and disparate technology stacks and simplify management using consistent, repeatable processes, Dell NativeEdge empowers you to achieve unprecedented speed, efficiency, and agility for your edge AI initiatives. While NativeEdge can be used to deploy and manage a single edge site with just a few compute endpoints, it also scales up seamlessly to handle more complex, sprawling edge deployments. This makes it an ideal platform for many industries.

Retail

For retailers, AI at the edge powers real-time customer insights, dynamic pricing, floor monitoring, smarter inventory management, and much more. However, retail edge environments can include POS systems, smart cameras, sensors, and other IoT devices. The ability to simplify management as operations scale is essential. Dell NativeEdge allows retailers to manage multiple devices, locations, and applications through a consistent management plane and deploy new servers and applications using zero-touch deployment.

Manufacturing

AI at the edge enables predictive maintenance, automated quality control, and process optimization to minimize downtime, improve production yield, and maximize productivity. But for many manufacturers, geo-distributed plants working with multiple third-party vendors and OT systems lack a centralized way to deploy, manage, and monitor applications for Industry 4.0 initiatives. Dell NativeEdge offers a centralized control plane that gives manufacturers visibility and control over their entire edge estate.Manufacturers can simplify infrastructure deployments, manage multiple AI-enabled applications on the factory floor, and scale infrastructure and applications quickly while maintaining data security.

Energy

AI at the edge will play an important role in modernizing the grid to enable more accurate demand forecasting and real-time response along with smart fault detection and outage management, improved efficiency, and enhanced resiliency. At the same time, edge infrastructure enables large-scale adoption of renewable distributed energy resources such as solar, wind, and geothermal, battery storage, and microgrids. Dell NativeEdge can help utilities simplify, streamline, and secure edge infrastructure management to scale with demand.

Smart cities

Smart city AI and Gen AI can simplify, optimize, and automate labor-intensive city services such as energy management, urban mobility, public safety, master planning, and disaster preparedness and response. AI at the edge enhances efficiency by processing data locally to enable quick, informed decisions. Dell NativeEdge helps cities protect and secure data and optimize edge management, reducing the resources required to modernize and maintain city systems.

Healthcare

Healthcare companies can leverage edge intelligence to enhance patient outcomes and increase efficiency while gaining agility and resiliency to meet growing demands. AI at the edge facilitates use cases such as remote patient monitoring, predictive analytics, and faster diagnostics, revolutionizing healthcare delivery and patient care. Dell NativeEdge can help healthcare organizations unify disparate data sources and streamline management with the data security healthcare organizations require.

Key features and benefits of NativeEdge

The business benefits our customers are achieving are made possible by the edge-specific, data-first features of Dell NativeEdge that help them:

• Simplify edge operations at scale: Dell NativeEdge provides capabilities like centralized management and orchestration, zero-touch deployment, onboarding, and automated operations from the edge to multiple clouds.
• Optimize edge investments: Dell NativeEdge, integrated with our edge portfolio, uses an open design that allows you to manage and orchestrate edge applications and infrastructure at a global scale.
• Secure an expanding edge estate, continuously and automatically: Dell NativeEdge reinforces Zero Trust security principles across the edge while maintaining hardware integrity and fortifying data and applications from edge to cloud.

Thrive in the digital era with Dell NativeEdge

As IT leaders undertake edge AI projects, Dell NativeEdge helps them align technology strategy with business goals, streamline edge operations, integrate technology silos, expedite time to value, and maintain strong security and data protection. Dell NativeEdge is simple, scalable, and tailored to your unique edge needs to help you thrive in the digital era.

Learn more at dell.com/NativeEdge.