Edge AI in the computing continuum: Consistency and Availability at Early Design Stages
This paper integrates Edge Intelligence (EI) with the coordination language Lingua Franca (LF), using the Consistency-Availability-Latency (CAL) theorem to optimize Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). We demonstrate an Emergency Vehicle Detection (EVD) system that prioritizes emergency vehicles through multimodal detection and LF’s deterministic coordination. Two deployment scenarios are evaluated—cloud-assisted and fully edge-based—guided by CAL tradeoffs. Experiments show that the edge-based solution reduces inference-to-actuation latency by 2.8x and energy consumption by 10.26%, while eliminating cloud bandwidth overhead.
Jun 3, 2025
