An Efficient Edge-Cloud Partitioning of Random Forests for Distributed Sensor Networks

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Abstract

Intelligent edge sensors that augment legacy 'unintelligent' manufacturing systems provides cost-effective functional upgrades. However, the limited computing at these edge devices requires tradeoffs in efficient edge-cloud partitioning and raises data privacy issues. This work explores policies for partitioning random forest approaches, which are widely used for inference tasks in smart manufacturing, among sets of devices with different resources and data visibility. We demonstrate, using both publicly available datasets and a real-world grinding machine deployment, that our privacy-preserving approach to partitioning and training offers superior latency-accuracy tradeoffs to purely on-edge computation while still achieving much of the benefits from data-sharing cloud offload strategies.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)21-24
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Embedded Systems Letters
Volume16
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1 2024

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • General Computer Science

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