Augmented Reality glasses generate thousands of frames per hour. A 10 FPS egocentric camera produces 36,000 frames in sixty minutes, roughly 288 MB/hr of raw JPEG data. The device has two options: stream everything to the cloud, burning battery on frames that add no additional information, or sample blindly and silently drop irreplaceable context. Both outcomes are bad. Uniform sampling wastes resources on duplicate scenes; it allocates the same frame rate during a 40-second stationary period as during a rapid room transition....
Composable Binding: Designing the Integration Boundary
Key Takeaway: Composable binding can reduce coordination cost by making the integration boundary a versioned, verifiable layer that can evolve independently of the systems it connects. AI on the edge is a system-of-systems problem. Legacy platforms, edge stacks, cloud services, and domain tools all need to exchange data with shared meaning over time. In practice, many edge AI failures are not caused by model quality alone, but by boundary drift between data producers, inference, and downstream consumers....