Common computer vision use cases in Indian manufacturing
Defect detection on conveyors (electronics, textiles, pharma packaging), OCR for batch and lot tracking, pose estimation for robotic pick-and-place, SKU recognition in warehouses and retail, vehicle and license plate recognition for security, weld inspection in fabrication, anomaly detection on rotating machinery via vision. Each use case has a known model archetype — YOLO for detection, SAM-2 for segmentation, custom CNN for fine-grained classification — but the deployment work is what differentiates production-grade implementations.
Why edge inference is the right default for India
Indian factories often have unreliable internet, strict data sovereignty requirements, and zero tolerance for cloud-side latency on the production line. On-device inference solves all three. Jetson Orin Nano hits the sweet spot for most production deployments — enough compute for YOLO + post-processing at 30 FPS, low enough power to run fanless. ESP32-S3 covers the simpler classification cases at <1W. Coral and Hailo cover the in-between. Cloud-only deployment is rarely the right answer here.
Camera, lens, and lighting — the unsung heroes of vision
Three project killers we've seen repeatedly: (1) wrong camera resolution — too low and the model never has the signal to detect; too high and inference latency blows up. (2) wrong lens — wide-angle barrel distortion ruins distance estimation. (3) wrong lighting — every change in ambient light creates a new failure mode. A capable vendor scopes camera and lighting as part of the engagement, not as your problem to solve afterwards. If they don't, walk away.
Project shape and timeline
Phase 1 (1-2 weeks): use-case scoping, data audit, camera / lens / lighting recommendations. Phase 2 (4-6 weeks): dataset collection and labelling. Phase 3 (3-4 weeks): model training and benchmarking. Phase 4 (4-8 weeks): edge deployment, integration with PLC / ROS / business logic. Phase 5 (ongoing): MLOps handoff, retraining pipeline, monitoring. Total: 12-20 weeks for a well-scoped production deployment. Pilots can land in 6-8 weeks with limited scope.
Working with Yantrix on computer vision
We ship production computer vision systems for Indian factories, robotics platforms, and product companies. Engagements include camera selection, lighting design, model training and quantization, edge deployment, and MLOps handoff — not just notebooks. Send us your use case and we'll come back with a phased quote within a business day.
