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Edge AI for predictive maintenance and leak detection

A production blueprint for detecting equipment anomalies and potential leaks close to the asset—even where connectivity is limited.

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01 / Problem statementProposed system · Oil & Gas

The operating problem

Unplanned equipment failure, remote assets, intermittent connectivity, and high inspection costs make reactive maintenance expensive and risky.

Conditions the system must survive03 operating constraints

Intermittent connectivity at remote assets

Rare failure events and changing operating regimes

False alarms create costly inspections and operator distrust

02 / How we approached it

A validation path before production commitment.

The blueprint is organized around four evidence gates. Each stage closes a specific uncertainty before the system moves closer to production.

01Frame

Unify vibration, pressure, acoustic, and thermal signals

Evidence produced

Asset and signal dictionary with failure hypotheses

02Evaluate

Run anomaly models on ruggedized edge hardware

Evidence produced

Time-correct anomaly benchmark across operating regimes

03Engineer

Prioritize alerts by operational consequence

Evidence produced

Edge latency, memory, and power profile on target hardware

04Operationalize

Synchronize evidence with central maintenance systems

Evidence produced

CMMS-ready alert contract with evidence and escalation rules

03 / Deployment design

Designed for the environment it must operate in.

The deployment model is proposed from the current operating constraints. Discovery and evaluation would confirm the final infrastructure and integration choices.

Blueprint statusProposed · requires discovery and acceptance testing

Topology

Ruggedized edge inference near the asset with asynchronous synchronization to a central platform.

Integration

Sensor gateways provide vibration, pressure, acoustic, and thermal windows; prioritized events flow into maintenance systems.

Operation

Local buffering preserves evidence during outages, while versioned models and thresholds are released through a controlled edge fleet process.

04 / Evaluation metrics

What must be measured before the system earns trust.

These metrics establish the baseline and acceptance gates for a future implementation. Numerical targets are set against customer data during discovery.

01Evaluation gate

Anomaly event recall

How it is measured

Recall across known abnormal events and simulated failure scenarios.

What it decides

Determines whether the model is safe enough to support early-warning workflows.

02Evaluation gate

False alarms per asset-day

How it is measured

Actionable versus non-actionable alerts normalized by asset operating time.

What it decides

Sets confidence gates and the maintenance review burden.

03Evaluation gate

Detection lead time

How it is measured

Time between the first valid warning and the operational threshold.

What it decides

Tests whether the warning arrives early enough to change a maintenance decision.

04Evaluation gate

Edge service performance

How it is measured

P95 inference latency, uptime, memory use, and bytes synchronized.

What it decides

Validates the selected hardware and connectivity architecture.

05 / Customer perspective

Value has to appear in the customer’s operating day.

What matters in practice

An alert is useful only when it includes the signal history, confidence, asset context, and a clear next inspection action.

01Observable value signalEarlier warning of abnormal operating conditions

02Observable value signalFewer unnecessary site inspections

03Observable value signalLower cloud bandwidth and inference cost

04Observable value signalOperational data remains close to the asset

06 / Technology context

Tools follow the system—not the other way around.

Final architecture depends on data quality, operating conditions, integrations, risk, and evaluation criteria established during discovery.

PyTorchONNXTensorRTNVIDIA JetsonFastAPI

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Define the evidence required to move from possibility to production.

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Edge AI for predictive maintenance and leak detection

Unplanned equipment failure, remote assets, intermittent connectivity, and high inspection costs make reactive maintenance expensive and risky.

A validation path before production commitment.

Unify vibration, pressure, acoustic, and thermal signals

Run anomaly models on ruggedized edge hardware

Prioritize alerts by operational consequence

Synchronize evidence with central maintenance systems

Designed for the environment it must operate in.

What must be measured before the system earns trust.

Anomaly event recall

False alarms per asset-day

Detection lead time

Edge service performance

Value has to appear in the customer’s operating day.

Tools follow the system—not the other way around.

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