Field notes

Writing from the
plant floor

Notes on attention, edge detection, and designing industrial tools that respect scale.

Why most condition monitoring goes unread

Plants collect oceans of sensor data and act on almost none of it. The bottleneck was never collection. It was attention.

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Running detection at the edge, and why your bill drops

Moving anomaly detection onto the node instead of the cloud cut one customer's uplink traffic by more than 100x. Here is the shape of that trade.

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Designing a zoom from fleet to single signal

Good maps let you change scale without changing tools. Industrial dashboards rarely do. We borrowed the map idea on purpose.

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