Vinay Ravuri, Founder and CEO at EdgeQ, joins Cheddar Innovates to discuss an all-new solution to unlock the full potential of edge computing and create a hyper-connected world.

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Creating a Hyper-Connected World

Welcome back to Cheddar innovates brought to you by curiosity. Stream Edge computing has become a major priority for a growing number of organizations across industries like autonomous vehicles and robots and drone delivery systems just to name a few. Our next guest has come up with an all new solution to make the full potential of edge computing. In actual reality, joining us now is a recovery founder and Ceo at edge que Bene HQ has created the world's first five G base station on a chip. Can you just put into perspective what that is exactly in the significance of this move? Yeah. Hi Alicia, Thanks for having me today. I'm excited to talk to you. Um, yeah, so first five G base station on chip, I'm holding that tip right here. For example, this is what we do. Um, if you kind of think about cellular five G four G, um, there's really in terms of competition today, there's like less than I would say I counted on my one hand, the number of people that are capable of doing such things largely because it's a complicated beast in terms of how to implement these things, but there just isn't enough competition. So when there's not competition, there's not enough innovation. So we kind of recognize that particularly with five G that it's, it's difficult, but also the fact that there is, it's difficult to implement such a thing and to deploy such things. And whereas for example, if you look at wifi, it's really simple and there's a lot of, and no surprise there's competition there and there's a lot of people that implemented and ease of use comes along with it. So we realized that, I don't know, 2018 when we started the company and and said that there is a large opportunity for us to go after this market and that's kind of how we started out and and five G and edge compute sort of play go hand in hand. I'm happy to explain how that works in a bit, but that's what kinda got started on this journey with HQ taking a step back for a moment and touching on that need for innovation and even further competition, we look at Edge Q. And it's led by execs from some major companies like Qualcomm intel and Broadcom, what was the catalyst and the mission behind edge que Yeah, great question. Um if you think about today, like when you go to the office or when you're at home you connect to wifi, it's simple, it works, you don't think about it, it's just, and it's also cheap. Uh that's not the case when it comes to cellular, uh when it comes to cellular meaning like five G or four G. You know, if you just kind of think about the onboarding process when you get a phone put a sim in there, it's just a just a difficult process and it's very complicated and it's also expensive for operators and companies to implement to deploy, They spend hundreds of billions of dollars doing so, whereas five G. Kind of goes from just being a cellphone technology two things that can go into in the office for example it could be something like a factory connecting robots. Uh So these sort of applications require something that's simple but also something that is easy to deploy and cheap and that's not the way it is today and that's kind of the impetus behind what we saw as an opportunity as well as a challenge here. And that's what got us started and we kind of brought people from different industries because you need to think differently about this whole problem. We brought people from data center space as well as uh you know cellular space and kind of put them together and came up with what we did breaking down the technology a little bit more. Let's talk about what exactly is edge computing and the potential that it holds. Yeah. Um you know it's no surprise right there's lots of data that's been created in the last 5 10 years and in fact the data amount of data supersedes the our ability to process them intelligently make decisions in real time and and today the way this is this working is that you know you think of like you have a phone and you connect to uh google or whatever and on the other end it's just thousands of miles away is the data center or the computing capacity that that that process is this stuff like a search engine for example. But wouldn't it be great if you could bring that processing closer to where the data is? So they don't actually to transport them for a multitude of reasons. Security could be for latency reasons, things like that. So edge computing really is is to bring the processing ability closer to the data whether it's right in your hands or in the closet in a in an office, things like that and that's what edge computing fundamentally is. When I think of this, the first thing I want to know them kind of taking it a step further are the actual use cases. What are the use cases and applications and the indus industry is that 5G. System on a chip can disrupt? Yeah I think you know there's cell phone networks that's I would say is I kind of call that 4.9 G. It's not so much edge computing and five G. The next one think of things like a digitization of um physical assets like a factory um where it's automation like it's welding cars or something. These are things like a robot sort of assembling a car on a on an assembly line. Uh That for example requires lots of data to be captured and processed in real time and also to be communicating because these robots have to sort of collaborate to build a car and this is what humans used to do as you as you know. Uh so this is a good example of such an application. Um there's other applications like ports and hubs, like basically trucks, autonomous vehicles going um you know in and out of the ports system. Um it could be just a car. Almost every car is now got a cellular modem in it, but if you were to think about um autonomous cars right, there's really no human being driving the car anymore. So therefore you need edge computing, you need to make decisions in real time, but at the same time communicating Really quickly. I've only got 20 seconds but I'm curious what work needs to be done to make this test accessible for all first and foremost, make it simple and make it cheap. Wifi is both of those and five G sort of needs to follow that path. Currently that's not where five G is, this is something that it's work in progress because it is a revolutionary, technology changes a lot of things in many ways. So this is going to take more competition, more availability of spectrum, so therefore it's, you know, there's more bandwidth for people ah and as well as just simplifying the overall process of building these networks. Really interesting tech that I know is going to be part of our future moving forward in a reverie founder and Ceo at edge Q Thank you so much