Edge AI & Autonomous Operations

CONTROL
INTELLIGENCE
AT THE EDGE

Cloud Ground Control engineers production-ready platforms for computer vision, autonomous fleets, predictive maintenance, agent orchestration, RAG knowledge systems, and model operations. Built for field environments where latency, privacy, bandwidth, and reliability matter.

About CGC

BUILT FOR
THE EDGE.

Cloud Ground Control is an advanced systems engineering company specialising in edge AI, computer vision, and autonomous fleet intelligence. We build the platforms that let autonomous systems perceive, decide, and act — with or without cloud connectivity.

Our work spans real-time object detection on constrained hardware, multi-agent drone coordination, predictive fleet analytics, AI-driven observability, LLM fine-tuning pipelines, and grounded knowledge systems for complex IoT deployments.

Everything we build shares one philosophy: intelligence should live as close to the data source as possible — on the device, in the ward, on the drone, in the field. Not in a cloud data centre 500 milliseconds away.

01 // EDGE
Edge-first architecture
Inference on-device. Latency cut by 60–70% vs cloud-only.
02 // PRIVATE
Private by design
Training data never leaves your infrastructure. Models are yours.
03 // AUTONOMOUS
Self-healing systems
Agents that diagnose, remediate, and manage without human intervention.
04 // GROUNDED
Cited intelligence
Every AI answer traced to a source document or live data signal.
CGC
CORE
YOLOv8 TensorRT Kafka LangGraph XGBoost ClickHouseDB LoRA
Platform Portfolio

FIVE CORE
PLATFORMS.

Each platform solves a distinct layer of the autonomous intelligence stack — from real-time computer vision at the edge to domain-adapted LLMs trained on your private data.

01 / 05Edge AI · Computer Vision
CGC SENTINEL
Edge AI & computer vision platform

Architected edge AI computer vision stack using YOLOv8, TensorRT, and OpenVINO for real-time object detection on constrained edge devices. Event-driven architecture with MQTT and WebRTC cuts bandwidth by ~80% and inference latency by ~60–70%. Autonomous multi-agent coordination across distributed drone fleets reduces manual monitoring by 50%+.

YOLOv8TensorRTOpenVINOMQTTWebRTCINT8Jetson Nano
~80%Bandwidth cut
~65%Latency reduction
50%+Less manual ops
INFERENCE ENGINE
YOLOv8 + TensorRT / OpenVINO
event-driven output
TRANSPORT
MQTT broker + WebRTC relay
fleet coordination
MULTI-AGENT LAYER
Distributed drone coordination
alerts + telemetry
DASHBOARD
Live feed · Fleet control · Alerts
02 / 05Digital Twin · Predictive ML
FLEETSIM PREDICTIVE
Digital twin & predictive analytics platform

Predictive analytics platform using XGBoost, LSTM, and time-series forecasting reduces fleet downtime by ~30% through proactive maintenance. Kafka and Pandas ingestion pipelines feed TimescaleDB for high-throughput telemetry storage and sub-second querying. Mission planning algorithms achieve ~15% battery efficiency gain across large-scale autonomous operations.

XGBoostLSTMKafkaTimescaleDBDigital TwinOR-ToolsSHAP
~30%Downtime reduced
~15%Battery efficiency
<1sQuery latency
INGESTION PIPELINE
Kafka + Pandas → TimescaleDB
feature engineering
ML MODELS
XGBoost (failure) + LSTM (RUL)
state sync
DIGITAL TWIN
Virtual fleet replica + scenarios
optimised routes
MISSION PLANNER
Battery-aware route optimisation
03 / 05AI Agents · Observability
NEXUS AGENTS
Autonomous incident orchestration & self-healing

Multi-agent orchestration platform using a Manager–Worker–Monitor hierarchy for autonomous diagnostics and incident management across drone and IoT edge device fleets. Manager agents decompose alerts into tasks dispatched to specialised Workers, while a Monitoring agent observes agent health and triggers self-healing workflows. Human-in-the-loop gates for high-risk actions. Built on LangGraph and LlamaIndex.

LangGraphLlamaIndexManager AgentHITLKafkaMQTTMLOps
3-TierAgent hierarchy
AutoSelf-healing
HITLHuman gate
MANAGER AGENT
Incident triage · task decomposition
task dispatch
WORKER AGENTS
Network · Hardware · Firmware · Telemetry
health observation
MONITOR AGENT
Agent health · self-healing triggers
data streams
EDGE SOURCES
Kafka · MQTT · IoT · Drones
04 / 05RAG · Knowledge Systems
COGNEX RAG
Grounded AI knowledge assistant — chat & voice

Industry-standard RAG chatbot for drone and IoT device knowledge management. ClickHouseDB serves as the high-performance vector store; Redis caches hot repeated queries. LlamaIndex handles document ingestion and chunking, LangChain orchestrates retrieval. MCP servers provide live device data access. Every answer is cited. Supports chat and voice interfaces for field engineers.

ClickHouseDBRedisLangChainLlamaIndexMCP ServersVoiceCited answers
ClickHouseVector store
MCPLive tool access
CitedEvery answer
KNOWLEDGE SOURCES
Manuals · Firmware · SOPs · Telemetry
chunk + embed
VECTOR STORE
ClickHouseDB + Redis hot cache
hybrid retrieval
MCP + LLM CHAIN
Live context + cited synthesis
response delivery
INTERFACE
Chat · Voice · Action plan output
05 / 05LLM Fine-Tuning · Model Ops
FORGE LLM
Private domain model training, evaluation & edge export

End-to-end platform for fine-tuning LLMs and vision models on your private organisational data — drone telemetry, healthcare imaging, IoT streams, operational SOPs. LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning on Modal serverless GPU, AWS SageMaker, or local air-gapped hardware. YOLOv8 custom training for edge vision tasks. MLflow experiment registry with full lineage. Exports to ONNX, TensorRT, and OpenVINO for edge deployment.

LoRA / QLoRAYOLOv8ModalAWS SageMakerMLflowONNXTensorRTOpenVINO
LoRAFine-tune method
3 runtimesModal · AWS · local
PrivateData never egresses
TRAINING DATA
Drone · Healthcare · IoT · SOPs
fine-tuning
COMPUTE BACKENDS
Modal · AWS SageMaker · Local GPU
experiment tracking
MODEL REGISTRY
MLflow · lineage · eval · rollback
edge packaging
EDGE EXPORT
ONNX · TensorRT · OpenVINO
Industries We Serve

INTELLIGENCE
FOR EVERY SECTOR.

🏥
Healthcare & Clinical AI
On-device patient monitoring, fall detection, and clinical workflow analysis — all inference stays in the ward. Zero patient data leaves the building.
  • Fall detection at 60ms latency
  • Privacy-preserving edge inference
  • GDPR compliant by architecture
🏡
Adult Care & Independent Living
Autonomous wellbeing and safety monitoring for care facilities — reducing carer alert fatigue by 70%+ without cloud video streaming or dignity compromise.
  • Non-intrusive activity monitoring
  • Alert fatigue reduction
  • CQC-aligned deployment
🛡️
Defence & Security ISR
Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance with full offline capability. Multi-drone autonomous operation in GPS-denied and contested environments.
  • Offline-first inference
  • Denied-environment operation
  • Multi-drone autonomous patrol
🏗️
Infrastructure Inspection
Autonomous drone inspection of pipelines, towers, and utilities — detecting defects 3× faster than manual teams at 40% lower cost.
  • Corrosion & crack detection
  • Thermal anomaly identification
  • Predictive maintenance triggers
🌾
Precision Agriculture
Autonomous drone fleets mapping field health, detecting crop disease, and triggering irrigation alerts over bandwidth-limited rural connections.
  • Crop disease detection
  • Event-only MQTT telemetry
  • NDVI-based field mapping
🏙️
Smart Cities & Urban AI
City-scale IoT deployments with edge-processed traffic flow, crowd density, and public safety monitoring — cutting telemetry bandwidth by 80%.
  • Real-time crowd density
  • Traffic flow optimisation
  • City-scale IoT integration
Core Capabilities

WHAT WE
ENGINEER.

01
Real-time edge inference
YOLOv8 quantized to INT8/FP16 via TensorRT and OpenVINO — 25–30 fps on Jetson Nano and Intel NCS2, sub-30ms end-to-end latency.
02
Event-driven pipelines
MQTT and Kafka pub/sub transmitting only detection deltas — cutting bandwidth by up to 80% compared to continuous streaming approaches.
03
Multi-agent orchestration
Manager–Worker–Monitor hierarchies for autonomous task decomposition, incident triage, and self-healing across distributed edge deployments.
04
Predictive fleet analytics
XGBoost failure prediction and LSTM-based remaining useful life forecasting feeding proactive maintenance — reducing unplanned downtime ~30%.
05
Private LLM fine-tuning
LoRA/QLoRA on Modal and AWS SageMaker. YOLOv8 custom training on domain datasets. ONNX and TensorRT export pipelines. Data never leaves your infrastructure.
06
Grounded RAG knowledge
ClickHouseDB vector retrieval, Redis hot cache, MCP live tool access — every answer cited to a source document or live device data signal.
The Intelligence Loop

FIVE PLATFORMS.
ONE CLOSED LOOP.

The five CGC platforms are not independent products — they form a self-reinforcing intelligence loop. Data flows from edge detection into prediction, prediction informs agents, agents generate training data, training improves knowledge retrieval. The system gets better from its own operational experience.

Sentinel detects — FleetSim predicts
Detection events and telemetry from Sentinel feed directly into FleetSim's predictive models, improving RUL forecasting accuracy with real operational data.
FleetSim scores — Nexus acts
FleetSim's component risk scores trigger Nexus Agent incident workflows proactively — before a fault code fires, before a human notices.
Nexus resolves — Forge learns
Every Nexus incident resolution becomes labelled training data for Forge LLM — continuously improving the domain model's understanding of operational failure patterns.
Forge trains — Cognex answers
Domain-adapted models from Forge LLM power Cognex RAG's domain-specific language understanding — field engineers get precise, cited answers grounded in real operational knowledge.
01 DETECT
CGC Sentinel
↓ detection events + telemetry
02 PREDICT
FleetSim Predictive
↓ risk scores + pre-fault alerts
03 RESPOND
Nexus Agents
↓ resolution data + labelled events
04 TRAIN
Forge LLM
↓ improved domain models
05 ANSWER
Cognex RAG
↻ field queries generate new Forge training data
YOLOv8TensorRTOpenVINOMQTTKafkaTimescaleDBClickHouseDBXGBoostPyTorchOR-ToolsLangChainLlamaIndexMCPModalAWS SageMakerLoRAMLflowFastAPIKubernetesGrafana YOLOv8TensorRTOpenVINOMQTTKafkaTimescaleDBClickHouseDBXGBoostPyTorchOR-ToolsLangChainLlamaIndexMCPModalAWS SageMakerLoRAMLflowFastAPIKubernetesGrafana

LET'S BUILD
TOGETHER.

Tell us about the environment, constraints, data sources, and operational outcome you need. We will help map the right edge, cloud, and AI architecture.