In this session, we walk through the architecture and key learnings of Alcon, the developer of SMART Suite, a digital platform designed to streamline and simplify cataract surgery for surgeons and patients. Leveraging Philips’ HSDP Edge (based on AWS Snowball Edge), Alcon deploys a local access point for IoT devices to locally connect to in order to access the discovery, proxy, data broker, and firmware services. By hosting these services locally at the site, Alcon achieves faster response times to local events and can continue to operate in the event of a loss of connectivity. Snowball Edge is also a consolidation point for local data sets that will be asynchronously replicated to the cloud.