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.