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    Think you know what edge computing is and where it happens? Think again. Increasingly digitalized, simpler and more mobile technologies are blurring its definitions, and shifting its boundaries. Of course, edge computing has always been a matter of perspective. Control-room staff think it's on the plant-floor or in the field, production staff place it at the sensor and device levels, and corporate managers believe fleets of distributed plants are all on the edge.

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