Computer hardware, namely, edge controllers; edge computing devices; electronic edge computing apparatus, namely, edge network routers, edge gateway routers; internet of things (IoT) gateway routers; edge controllers, namely, computer adapters, switches, hubs, bridges, and interface devices; edge computer network servers; downloadable computer software for use in planning, building, monitoring and managing local area networks, wireless networks, mesh networks, network access points, gateways, routers, repeaters, and nodes; computer peripheral equipment, namely, electrical signal transmitters, electrical signal receivers, and radio-frequency transponders; wireless communication modules for implementing wireless mesh networks, namely, integrated circuit modules; internet of things (IoT) systems comprised of modular computer hardware and downloadable software, namely, electric sensors, machine protocol readers, edge computing devices, edge computing dashboards, and application program interface (API), for sensing, reading, recording, extracting, transforming, loading, analyzing, and reporting data