Hardware tiers

A practical framework for Jetson sizing.

Hardware selection should match line speed, camera count, and compute headroom.

Tier 1: Single-station pilot

  • Prove the inspection loop on one station.

  • Basic detection + rules + local evidence storage.

Tier 2: Production scale (default)

  • Detection + local RCA + local UI.

  • Headroom for concurrent workloads.

Tier 3: Multi-line site hub (future)

  • Multi-line aggregation.

  • Larger local models.

  • Site-wide dashboard and model registry.

Tier 4: Enterprise site server (future)

  • Larger on-prem models.

  • Fleet reporting and longer-term analytics.

Principle: start with what is deployed. Upgrade only when compute is the bottleneck.

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