Edge AI
Jetson, Pi, and Coral clusters that belong to their org.
Edge AI fleets often live at the awkward intersection of cloud and IoT: too capable to be a sensor, too distributed to be a server. Beacons treats them as full Tier-1 peers with the right transports and the right policy.
Hardware as fleet member
A Jetson Orin, a Raspberry Pi 5, or a Coral dev board is a Tier-1 host in the Beacons matrix. The Rust core builds with CUDA-aware flags on Jetson; on Pi it ships from the Pi Imager preset; on Coral it is a native ARM build.
Co-located inference
When edge inference results need to flow back to a Forge agent or a Hives flight, Beacons provides the secure, identity-rooted transport. No reverse-tunnel ngrok ritual. Just a peer in the fleet.
Bulk fleet ops
Provision via the bcn CLI in CI. Update via a coordinator-pushed configuration. Revoke via a single policy change — every edge node loses access on the next tick.
See also: Edge AI devices · Robotics · CLI