[montereynack]

Since this is a topic that’s near and dear to my heart, going to quickly plug my own startup that’s doing exclusively this: www.sentineldevices.com. We make industrial equipment smart enough to self-monitor and self-report issues using AI, but we are specialized in making AI that does EVERYTHING (including training) on embedded devices (think something only marginally more powerful than an RPi 4) so we never call out to a server. As the article notes, a big challenge has been making the AI and all support software resilient and able to “bounce back” from random occurrences in industrial environments (which can be extremely unpredictable and unique). Also as the article notes, this pretty handily opens up the Defense market since we don’t need to clear a cloud component.

Feel free to reach out at [e-mail] if you’d like to chat. We’re building and trying to take people on part-time if anyone’s interested in this space! Also if anyone just wants to talk about challenges in the space I’m happy to, HN usually gives really great conversation partners.