Edge Inference
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Also known as: Edge AI, On-device Inference
Edge inference runs neural-network predictions on hardware close to the sensor — a Hailo-8 dongle, a Jetson Orin Nano, an Intel NUC with OpenVINO — instead of streaming video to the cloud. For Saudi industrial sites this matters for three reasons: PDPL data-residency keeps frames inside the kingdom, RTSP backhaul…
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Edge inference runs neural-network predictions on hardware close to the sensor — a Hailo-8 dongle, a Jetson Orin Nano, an Intel NUC with OpenVINO — instead of streaming video to the cloud. For Saudi industrial sites this matters for three reasons: PDPL data-residency keeps frames inside the kingdom, RTSP backhaul costs collapse when only events leave the site, and latency drops from hundreds of milliseconds to single-digit. FI Tech edge nodes typically run 8 to 16 cameras per box at 1080p10, with PPE, fall-detect, and zone-intrusion models pipelined on a single GPU.
