01The four questions
Be honest about each — over-buying the environment wastes money, under-buying it costs you a return visit.
- Environment — temperature, vibration, EMC, ingress
- I/O — how many isolated 24 V points, analog channels, fieldbuses
- AI — do you need on-device vision/ML (Hailo) or just control
- Lifecycle — how many years of guaranteed availability you need
02Matching to a platform
Harsh + certified → RevPi. AI-first → Seeed or our Node One. Compact, well-isolated → Sfera Labs. Same capability for the lowest price → an own-build board, because there's no distributor margin on a re-badged reference design.
Common questions
The ones we're asked on every first call.
Only if it meets all four requirements. Cheapest-that-fits is the goal, not cheapest outright. Our own boards are designed to be the cheapest at a given capability, not by cutting the industrial features that matter.
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