Edge computing platform gives industry partners smart monitoring options The IoT Edge platform from ClearBlade uses Edge AI technology to help companies and organizations monitor and predict performance for industries, including rail, manufacturing, retail, aerospace and agriculture. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The same edge computing technology that uses the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) to keep railroad crossings monitored and healthy also is helping to track crowds at shopping malls and control heating systems in homes across the U.S. The IoT Edge platform from ClearBlade uses Edge AI technology to help companies and organizations monitor and predict performance for industries, including rail, manufacturing, retail, aerospace and agriculture. Eric Simone, an alumnus of Purdue University’sCollege of Science, founded ClearBlade in 2007 after working at IBM.