VECTOR Pilot Readiness
Experimental edge-gateway scope, prerequisites, and pilot boundaries.
VECTOR is experimental edge-gateway research for scoped laboratory telemetry pilots. TARE does not currently provide a generally available hub image or self-service device provisioning flow. Any pilot requires a written integration, security, and local-safety plan.
Experimental capability
Do not connect production instruments, safety controls, or regulated records from this guide alone. Hardware support, protocols, evidence requirements, and operator controls are established per design-partner pilot.
Hardware Anatomy
Core Processing
Research prototypes target Raspberry Pi-compatible hardware and containerized services. Exact hardware, local buffering, signing, and recovery behavior are pilot-specific.
Edge Connectivity
Candidate transports include serial, Ethernet, Bluetooth LE, and MQTT. A listed transport is not a supported instrument driver or approval to connect a device.
Pilot intake
- Document the instrument, protocol, data classification, sampling rate, and operational owner.
- Define a read-only capture path, network boundary, credential rotation, and loss-of-connectivity behavior.
- Validate payload schema, timestamp quality, signatures, replay handling, and tenant routing in a non-production environment.
- Record site EHS approval, operator training, rollback steps, and the evidence required before any production use.