Altos Computing Ltd (An Acer Group Company) today announced a strategic partnership with Industry.AI (BLP Group Company) to deploy YodaEdge™, a secure, scalable, and sovereign edge AI platform designed to bring real-time artificial intelligence directly to industrial and urban environments across India. Powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing, YodaEdge™ aims to enable manufacturers, MSMEs, and infrastructure operators to operationalise AI at the point of action, supporting India’s ambition of building a resilient, manufacturing-led economy.
As India advances towards a $7 trillion economy, the role of manufacturing, MSMEs, and critical infrastructure in driving productivity, exports, and employment continues to expand. However, AI adoption across these sectors has been limited by challenges such as cloud dependency, latency, data security concerns, and the complexity of deploying AI in real-world industrial conditions. YodaEdge™ addresses these challenges through an edge-first, on-premises architecture that delivers enterprise-grade AI capabilities while ensuring low latency, high reliability, and full control over sensitive operational data.
YodaEdge™ integrates Industry.AI’s Orion industrial AI platform with Altos edge-optimised infrastructure servers, accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs and AI software. This pre-integrated “AI in a Box” solution allows enterprises to deploy advanced AI workloads locally, reducing reliance on distant cloud infrastructure and aligning with India’s priorities around data localisation and technological self-reliance.
Built specifically for factory floors and distributed infrastructure, YodaEdge™, supports a range of high-impact use cases, including computer vision-based safety monitoring for real-time detection of unsafe conditions and PPE non-compliance, predictive maintenance models that analyse machine behaviour to reduce unplanned downtime, and AI-powered knowledge assistants that provide instant access to standard operating procedures, manuals, and historical maintenance data at the point of use. Industry benchmarks indicate that AI-led safety systems can reduce incidents by up to 70%, while predictive maintenance can cut downtime by as much as 50%.
The platform also targets AI adoption among India’s MSMEs, which contribute over 35% of GDP and close to half of manufacturing output. By simplifying deployment, reducing implementation timelines, and delivering measurable ROI within operational cycles, YodaEdge™ lowers the barriers that have traditionally prevented smaller enterprises from adopting AI at scale.
YodaEdge™ is on Altos workstations, which are powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing and leverage the NVIDIA AI software stack, including NVIDIA CUDA, TensorRT, and NVIDIA NIM microservices for local deployment of vision, language, and generative AI models. This architecture enables Physical AI use cases, where AI systems interact directly with machines, sensors, and physical environments in real time.
As deployments expand across manufacturing clusters, MSMEs, and critical infrastructure, the Altos and Industry.AI partnership positions YodaEdge™ as a foundational AI platform for India’s next phase of industrial growth.