Edge AI & Embedded Intelligence
Bringing real-time AI processing to the edge for instant decision-making and autonomous operations
Smart Hail Guard
Spec Legacy developed the Smart Hail Guard, an AI-powered hail detection system designed to combat insurance fraud by objectively verifying hail occurrence at specific locations. With 5,000 devices deployed across the US, this comprehensive monitoring network uses a PyTorch/OpenCV pipeline to analyze high-speed camera feeds, identifying and classifying hail in real-time while differentiating it from rain and debris. Built on Quetzel SC206E microcontrollers with custom firmware, the system employs sensor fusion and solar-powered autonomy to provide geolocated, timestamped evidence via MQTT to insurers, transforming claims verification and enabling rapid approval of legitimate claims while preventing fraudulent ones.
Guardio High-Performance Edge AI Security
Guardio represents Spec Legacy's breakthrough in high-performance edge AI security, delivering real-time, on-device threat detection for environments where speed, privacy, and reliability are non-negotiable. By eliminating cloud latency through hardware-optimized processing on NVIDIA Jetson Nano, Guardio achieves a staggering 10x performance increase with final inference speeds of 100 frames per second. Our rigorous optimization pipeline deploys complex computer vision models for face detection, recognition, and intrusion using TensorFlow, TF-Lite, and NVIDIA's TensorRT for quantization and compilation, transforming theoretical concepts into commercially viable products that provide unparalleled real-time monitoring capabilities without cloud dependency.
Ensemble Edge AI Smart Lighting
Spec Legacy's Ensemble Smart Lighting platform introduces a revolutionary on-device AI system that delivers proactive, context-aware lighting without cloud dependency, ensuring unparalleled privacy, speed, and reliability. Our innovative "rule-informed Teacher-Child model distillation" architecture begins with training a complex MLP model on vast synthetic datasets to learn nuanced lighting preferences, then distills this knowledge into a highly efficient child model deployed on resource-constrained STM32H747 microcontrollers. The successful 6-week POC fully de-risked our technical strategy, proving that sophisticated adaptive AI could run effectively on low-power embedded devices and establishing foundational IP for a market-defining product that overcomes the limitations of standard reactive smart lighting.
Drive Pulse Remote Vehicle Diagnostics
Drive Pulse transforms vehicle diagnostics and fleet management through Spec Legacy's comprehensive IoT platform that provides remote access to On-Board Diagnostics (OBD) systems for real-time performance monitoring and proactive maintenance. The solution combines custom hardware dongles that plug into vehicle OBD-II ports with a cloud-based software platform, continuously collecting and transmitting key metrics like engine status, fuel efficiency, and emissions data. This aggregated data enables fleet operators to monitor entire vehicle fleets via centralized dashboards, significantly reducing maintenance costs and minimizing downtime through predictive maintenance and hassle-free remote troubleshooting, ultimately increasing operational efficiency and extending vehicle lifespans for higher return on investment.
