# Edge AI & Industrial Inspection — Alector Lab Engineering Specification

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Last Updated: 2026-09-10
Provider: Alector Lab – Enabling Technologies Ltd (https://alectorlab.com)
Contact: alectorlab@gmail.com

## Summary
On-device and on-premise vision systems for inspection, assets and operations where latency or connectivity matters.

## Engineering Overview
Edge AI is useful when processing must remain close to a camera or device because of connectivity, privacy or response requirements. Hardware sizing follows a measured workload, including capture, decoding and post-processing—not model inference alone.

### Illustrative Scope
An inspection pilot could flag suspect parts locally and queue supporting frames for an operator. During a network outage, the agreed local behavior might be to buffer results or stop issuing automated decisions. That behavior must be tested explicitly, not left to an exception handler.

## Target Audience
- Manufacturing and warehouse teams
- Distributed field operations
- Products requiring private or low-latency inference

## Supported Workflows
- Defect and anomaly detection
- Asset and inventory visibility
- Safety-event review
- Offline or constrained inference

## Required Inputs
- Camera and sensor inventory
- Representative operating conditions
- Target thresholds
- Hardware, network and retention constraints

## Engineering Deliverables & Outputs
- Hardware-sizing baseline
- Optimized inference pipeline
- Operational review queue
- Monitoring and retraining plan

## Delivery Stages
1. Measure conditions and latency budget
2. Benchmark models and hardware
3. Optimize and integrate
4. Run a controlled field pilot
5. Monitor new conditions

## Acceptance Criteria
Measure throughput, tail latency, thermal behavior and recovery on the target device under sustained load. Define storage limits, update rollback and operator escalation. The system must not be treated as the sole safety control for people or equipment.

## Operating Boundaries
- **Integrations:** Specify sensor interfaces, local event queues and the operator system. Equipment-control integration requires a separately assessed safety boundary.
- **Deployment:** Measure sustained load, thermals and storage limits on the target device. Define network-outage behaviour, controlled updates and rollback.
- **Human Review & Governance:** Review suspect parts and missed events against labelled samples. Vision output must not become the sole safety control for workers or equipment.

## Operating Limitations & Safety Boundaries
- No single model should be a sole safety control
- Performance varies with lighting, viewpoints and new SKUs
- Hardware selection follows measured workload

## Common Technical Question
**Q: Which edge hardware should we buy?**
A: Choose after benchmarking representative models, resolution and concurrent streams. Power, cooling, availability and operational maintenance matter alongside compute capacity. The initial deliverable can be a sizing assessment before committing to hardware purchases.