Case Studies & Reference Architectures

    How Enfuse builds Physical AI and sovereign AI systems inside customer boundaries — the operational problem, what we built, the architecture, the hardware, and the deployment environment. Each entry states whether it is a completed engagement or a representative reference architecture.

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    Consumer Goods & Beverage
    Client Success Story

    Real-Time Pallet Counting and Inventory at the Edge

    Challenge

    Warehouse and yard inventory counts were manual, periodic, and stale by the time they reached the WMS. Pallets moved faster than anyone could count them, and cloud video analytics were not an option across dozens of distribution sites with constrained connectivity.

    Solution

    Perception infrastructure using existing Axis Communications network cameras as the sensor layer, with NVIDIA Jetson devices running detection, tracking, and counting on site. Counts are reconciled locally and pushed to inventory systems as events, not video.

    Key Outcomes

    • ✓Continuous pallet counts instead of periodic manual cycle counts
    • ✓Existing Axis camera infrastructure reused as the perception sensor layer
    • ✓Video stays on site; only structured count events leave the facility
    Real time
    Counting
    Axis IP cameras
    Sensor Layer
    None
    Video Egress
    Physical AI
    Jetson
    Axis Communications
    Computer Vision
    Inventory
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    Challenge

    Shoppers could not find products, staff spent their shift answering the same location questions, and the store had no live spatial picture of aisles, displays, or queues. Store layouts change weekly, so any static map or app directory is wrong within days.

    Solution

    A live digital twin of the store built from edge perception. NVIDIA Jetson devices handle camera inference in-aisle, while a Dell GB10 workstation on site holds the store model, runs the wayfinding and guest-service assistant, and keeps every frame inside the building.

    Key Outcomes

    • ✓Live store twin that reflects layout, planogram, and display changes
    • ✓Shopper wayfinding answers grounded in the current store, not a stale directory
    • ✓All video and inference stay on site — only anonymized events leave the store
    Live twin
    Store Model
    Jetson + Dell GB10
    Edge Compute
    None
    Video Egress
    Retail AI
    Digital Twin
    Jetson
    Dell GB10
    Wayfinding
    Physical AI
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    Public Safety & Smart Cities
    Reference Architecture

    Real-Time Digital Twins for Smart Cities

    Challenge

    Cities have no live spatial record of their own streets. Infrastructure defects are reported by citizens weeks after they appear, and patrol vehicles already driving every block produce no usable data. Classical SLAM gives geometry without meaning, and cloud video analytics are disqualified outright for law-enforcement footage.

    Solution

    A vehicle-mounted perception stack that pairs graph-based SLAM with Enfuse's NVFP4-quantized 72B robotics model, producing a queryable semantic digital twin of the patrol route. Perception runs on Jetson in the vehicle; semantic reasoning runs on an on-prem Blackwell-class server inside the agency boundary.

    Key Outcomes

    • ✓Every patrol mile becomes an inspection mile for city infrastructure
    • ✓Geometry plus semantics — the map knows what it is looking at
    • ✓Officers and dispatch can query the scene in natural language
    • ✓No video or scene data leaves the agency's security boundary
    ~42 GB
    Model Footprint
    32K tokens
    Context Window
    1–3 Hz
    Scene Reasoning
    None
    Cloud Dependency
    Smart Cities
    Digital Twin
    SLAM
    Jetson
    NVFP4
    Physical AI
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    Critical Infrastructure
    Reference Architecture

    Multi-Sensor Perimeter Perception for a Critical Site

    Challenge

    A high-consequence site needed continuous perimeter awareness across day, night, fog, and glare conditions. Cloud video analytics were not permitted, and camera-only detection produced too many false alarms to be operationally useful.

    Solution

    Perception infrastructure combining GMSL2 camera arrays, LiDAR, and thermal sensors, fused on NVIDIA Jetson at the fence line, with tracking and spatial grounding running against a site model on an on-prem GPU server.

    Key Outcomes

    • ✓Detection and tracking continue with no outbound network dependency
    • ✓Fused camera + LiDAR + thermal tracks replace camera-only alerting
    • ✓Operators see objects located in site coordinates, not raw video tiles
    <50ms
    Edge Inference
    3
    Sensor Modalities
    Zero
    Network Egress
    Physical AI
    LiDAR
    Sensor Fusion
    Jetson
    Air-Gapped
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    Defense & Aerospace
    Reference Architecture

    Air-Gapped AI for a Defense Program

    Challenge

    A defense program required AI document analysis inside a classified environment with zero network connectivity. Commercial cloud AI services were not authorized under the program's security controls.

    Solution

    A fully air-gapped sovereign runtime with pre-packaged models, a signed offline update mechanism, and integration into the program's existing identity and audit infrastructure.

    Key Outcomes

    • ✓AI capability operating inside a disconnected classified enclave
    • ✓Every prompt, retrieval, and response captured in the program audit trail
    • ✓Update path that never requires opening an outbound connection
    12 weeks
    Deployment Window
    Zero
    Outbound Connections
    100%
    Audit Coverage
    ITAR
    Air-Gapped
    Classified
    Sovereign AI
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    Manufacturing
    Reference Architecture

    Edge Vision Quality Inspection on the Production Line

    Real-time visual inspection was required at production-line speed. Round-trip latency to a cloud endpoint exceeded the available cycle time, and inspection imagery could not leave the fab.

    <10ms
    Inference Latency
    Zero
    Data Egress
    Line edge
    Deployment
    Edge AI
    Computer Vision
    Quality Control
    Manufacturing
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    Healthcare
    Reference Architecture

    Clinical Research AI Inside the Hospital Boundary

    A research hospital wanted AI-assisted clinical document analysis while keeping PHI inside its own boundary. Hosted AI services could not guarantee the required data residency or audit posture.

    Zero
    PHI Egress
    Role + study
    Access Model
    100%
    Audit Coverage
    HIPAA
    Clinical Research
    Document AI
    Sovereign AI
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    Financial Services
    Reference Architecture

    FinTech Platform Modernization for Enterprise Compliance

    A financial technology company needed to meet enterprise banking procurement requirements — SOX-aligned controls, auditability, and data residency — before its AI features could be adopted by regulated customers.

    App Factory
    Delivery Model
    By default
    Governance
    Customer-controlled
    Residency
    SOX
    Enterprise Sales
    Platform Modernization
    Sovereign AI
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    How to read these

    Entries labelled Reference Architecture are representative deployment patterns drawn from Enfuse engineering practice. Their figures are design targets for that pattern, not client-reported results. Entries labelled Client Success Story are completed engagements with results the client has substantiated. We would rather label a pattern honestly than publish a number we cannot defend.

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