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The proliferation of specialized hardware on sensors, wearable, mobile, and IoT devices has led to the growth of Edge Intelligence, which has become an integral part of the development cycle of most modern applications. However, scalability issues hinder their wide-scale adoption. We aim to focus on these challenges and propose a scalable decentralized edge intelligence framework. Therefore, we analyze and empirically evaluate the challenges of existing methods, and design an architecture that overcomes these challenges. The proposed approach is client-driven and model-centric, allowing models to be shared between entities in a scalable fashion. 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