Domains / Where OUTPOST Operates
Every domain shares one constraint: the uplink is scarce.
OUTPOST was designed for the physical world — environments where bandwidth is metered by the kilobyte, latency is measured in seconds, and the cost of a dropped packet can be measured in lives or losses. The compression ratio is an engineering response to a physical constraint — built in, not bolted on.
Maritime
Vessels at sea are among the most bandwidth-constrained environments on earth. OUTPOST compresses CCTV, thermal, and radar feeds into a continuous latent stream — routed over VSAT at a fraction of legacy bandwidth. Bridge watch, crew safety, cargo anomaly, and weather routing models all share the same uplink.
| Connectivity | VSAT / LEO hybrid |
|---|---|
| Primary sensors | CCTV, thermal, AIS |
| Typical compression | 8 – 24× |
| Latency budget | 600 ms round-trip |
Energy
Offshore platforms run 24/7 surveillance over dozens of cameras on microwave or satellite links that cost hundreds of dollars per gigabyte. OUTPOST moves the inference to the edge, sends only meaningful latent state, and delivers real-time structural and safety data within the pipe budget.
| Connectivity | Microwave / VSAT |
|---|---|
| Primary sensors | CCTV, gas, thermal |
| Typical compression | 12 – 30× |
| Latency budget | 1 200 ms round-trip |
Infrastructure
Urban infrastructure generates petabytes of video that nobody has the bandwidth or compute budget to reason over in real time. OUTPOST encodes the semantic content at the sensor, letting edge nodes share compressed situational awareness over commodity 4G / 5G links with no cloud decode required.
| Connectivity | 4G / 5G / fibre |
|---|---|
| Primary sensors | CCTV, LiDAR, loop |
| Typical compression | 6 – 16× |
| Latency budget | 200 ms round-trip |
Defence & Government
Tactical ISR has always been a bandwidth allocation problem. OUTPOST lets sensor nodes transmit intent — not pixels — over encrypted narrowband links. Command and control systems receive structured latent intelligence, not raw video, enabling faster decisions at lower risk of interception.
| Connectivity | Narrowband / HF / satcom |
|---|---|
| Primary sensors | EO/IR, SAR, acoustic |
| Typical compression | 20 – 60× |
| Latency budget | Mission-variable |
Remote Industry
Remote industrial sites share one problem: cellular is spotty, satellite is expensive, and the data generated by autonomous equipment and safety cameras exceeds what can be moved economically. OUTPOST turns each sensor into a reasoning node that reports structured observations, not raw streams.
| Connectivity | LTE / LoRa / VSAT |
|---|---|
| Primary sensors | CCTV, drone EO, GPS |
| Typical compression | 10 – 28× |
| Latency budget | 2 000 ms round-trip |
Emergency Response
In a disaster zone the first casualty is the network. Responders carrying OUTPOST nodes relay compressed situational awareness over mesh radio, satellite pagers, or whatever the environment allows — giving command a live semantic picture even on the thinnest path.
| Connectivity | Mesh / satphone / DMR |
|---|---|
| Primary sensors | Body-cam, drone, thermal |
| Typical compression | 15 – 40× |
| Latency budget | Best-effort |
The same encoder. The same uplink savings. Across every domain.
Hardware-agnostic / protocol-agnostic / model-agnostic