Applied Research Engineering

Intelligence at the edge. No cloud required.

Applied research engineering for perception, monitoring, and autonomy — from research paper to deployed hardware.

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>50%latency reduction
500%model-efficiency gain
45%representation lift
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What we do

Three pillars, one engineer.

01Edge AI Systems

Intelligence without the cloud

Model optimization & compression, on-device inference pipelines, edge MLOps — research to deployed hardware.

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02Perception & Monitoring

Detection from any sensor

Acoustic, vibration, vision, and EO/IR analytics with self-supervised, low-label pipelines.

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03Autonomy, Survey & Twins

Robots that see; sites you can revisit

Drone & quadruped autonomy, inspection workflows, LiDAR-to-digital-twin pipelines.

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From the field

Where the work happens

Drop real photos — they render grayscale to keep the monochrome promise.
Edge device on the test bench
FIG.01 — EDGE INFERENCE BOARD
FIG.02 — LIDAR SURVEY (LIVE CAPTURE)
Sensor / embedded system on site
FIG.03 — DEPLOYED SENSOR NODE
The authority engine

Latest from the R&D log

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2026-05-14EDGE

Quantizing a vibration-anomaly model for a $60 edge board

INT8 on a Cortex-M55 without losing the tail of the distribution.

7 min read
2026-04-22ACOUSTICS

What 10,000 synthetic spectrograms taught us about input design

A clean-room study on representation choices for condition monitoring.

11 min read
2026-03-30FIELD NOTES

LiDAR mapping a rail siding with a sub-250g drone

What a featherweight platform can — and cannot — resolve.

5 min read
Principal-Led

The engineer who scopes your problem is the engineer who ships your solution. No account manager, no hand-off, no junior bench.

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Have a sensor, a site, or a fleet that should be smarter?

We take on a limited number of engagements per quarter. If your problem involves edge constraints, unusual sensors, or no labeled data — that's our specialty.

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