TIER 01
Far edge
Drones & cameras
Own UAV / UGV with HD, thermal or LiDAR payloads; fixed industrial IP and PTZ cameras. Captures and infers on the spot.
- On-board AI
- NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano / NX
- Inference
- <50 ms, real time
- Comms
- 5G / Wi-Fi 6 / LTE
System architecture
The 4-tier integrated intelligence platform
From the far edge of the field to the enterprise cloud — one data pipeline. Each AI model runs at the tier where it makes most sense, and every tier keeps working if the link above it drops.
The four tiers
TIER 02
Edge
Rugged edge node
The operator's field command post: aggregates feeds, runs heavier models and raises local alerts.
- Hardware
- Rugged laptop (MIL-SPEC option)
- GPU
- NVIDIA RTX / Quadro
- Storage
- NVMe SSD local buffer
TIER 03
Fog
On-premise AI server
The site's intelligence hub: plant-wide analytics, dashboards and retraining on local data.
- CPU
- Intel Xeon / AMD EPYC
- GPU
- NVIDIA A100 / RTX 4090
- Memory
- 128–512 GB ECC; NAS / RAID
TIER 04
Cloud
Enterprise cloud
Multi-site benchmarking, executive dashboards and model distribution back to the edge.
- Platform
- AWS / Azure
- Access
- Web + mobile app
- Security
- TLS 1.3, end-to-end encryption
Reference hardware shown for each tier; configurations are sized to each site.
Design principles
Built for real industrial conditions
Bidirectional data flow
Insights flow up; retrained models are pushed from cloud to edge automatically.
Offline resilient
Each tier runs independently — lose the cloud and the edge keeps counting and alerting.
Open, no lock-in
Kubernetes and open-source foundation, with standard protocols throughout.
Integration
Works with what you already run
Video & plant: RTSP, ONVIF, SCADA, ERP and MES connectors
APIs: REST, MQTT, gRPC and WebSocket
Enterprise stacks: designed for SAP, Oracle, Siemens and Rockwell
Bandwidth: edge filtering cuts cloud traffic by up to 95%
Models: continuous retraining on your data, pushed from cloud to edge
Deployment
Start small, scale by tier
Edge-only: far edge + edge, for offline, low-bandwidth or security-sensitive sites
Cloud-hybrid: fog + cloud on your existing cameras — the fastest path for brownfield sites
Full 4-tier: drone to cloud, for large or multi-site operations
Request a demo
See what our AI finds in your own footage.
We run a live demonstration on your camera feeds or drone footage, then a 30-day proof of concept at your site — before you commit.