# Hardware tiers

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.


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