Not artificial intelligence. The layer between a machine's senses and its brain that makes signals legible. Powered by the same Trinity Cortex succession engine that drives Validiti's language work, adapted for sensor streams. 0.2 ms sample lookups on a $5 microcontroller.
Four steps. The substrate watches; patterns emerge; the prediction is instant.
Think of it like your ears recognizing a familiar voice in a crowd. You don't sample-and-decode each phoneme. The pattern is the recognition. That's what CSI gives to machines — and paired with Validiti MCI, it closes the loop: sensors that recognize, motors that respond, both on the same substrate.
Most sensor stacks summarise, discard, and forget. CSI lives at the layer underneath — where sample rate, retention depth, footprint, and what the substrate remembers about each sensor decide whether a machine can tell normal from anomalous.
| Property | TinyML inference | Edge AI pipeline | Validiti CSI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sample latency | 1–5 ms | 0.5–2 ms | 0.2 ms |
| Sample-rate breadth | 10–100 Hz typical | 100–500 Hz | 25 Hz – 5 kHz on the same engine |
| Hardware floor | $50 dev board | Industrial PC + accelerator | $5 microcontroller |
| Power draw | 100 mW – 1 W | 5–30 W | ~5 mW (battery weeks) |
| Adaptation | Retrain on a desktop | Hand-tune filters | Continuous observation |
| Pattern depth | Short window (8–32 samples) | None — per-frame inference | Multi-depth succession tables (2–10+ samples) |
| Data retention | Discarded after inference | Discarded each cycle | Every sample, indexed per channel per device |
| Per-sensor quirks | Same model everywhere | Generic plant assumption | Each sensor learns its own bias + noise floor |
| Offline operation | Cloud retraining loop | Yes | Yes — on-device entirely |
Three sensor pipelines, same wall-clock, running at their real rates. The numbers reset every three seconds — watch what each stack kept while it was running.
In the same three-second window, CSI captures 15,000 sample snapshots while TinyML gets to 300 — and only CSI keeps all of them.
Per-channel pattern memory, on-device, microsecond-class. Markets that have been waiting for a sensing layer that doesn't summarise everything to nothing the moment it arrives.
The same succession engine that drives Validiti's language work — adapted from words to sensor samples. Same primitives that power MCI on the motor side.
Pick the sample rate your sensors need. Pay per channel at that tier's published rate. Apex caps any single device at $2,499/month. Fleet handles anything past 1,000 samples/sec/channel or large multi-sensor deployments. Same price points as MCI — bundle them together to close the loop.
Hobby builds, classroom kits, environmental probes at slow rate, single-sensor learning rigs.
IMU sampling, encoder feedback at low rate, basic vibration monitoring, air-quality and water-quality probes, agricultural IoT.
Audio + microphone-array pattern recognition, vibration spectrum analysis, motor encoders at full rate, wearable ECG / EEG / EMG.
Force-torque sensors, high-resolution accelerometry, haptic feedback, ultrasonic NDT, surgical-tool sensing. The single-device cap means multi-channel fusion rigs don't scale punitively.
LIDAR / radar / IMU fusion at autonomous-vehicle rates, multi-channel medical imaging, defense ISR sensor arrays, OEM-embedded sensor suites at scale.
Contact for fleet pricing →A channel is one independently-sampled sensor stream — a 3-axis IMU is 3 channels; a 16-electrode EEG is 16 channels; a single force-torque cell with 6 axes is 6 channels. Tier brackets are the supported sample rate per channel. Apex's $2,499/device monthly cap means a 50-channel fusion rig at the top of the Apex band pays the same as a 60-channel one. Anything above 1,000 samples/sec/channel, or fleet-scale multi-sensor deployments, is Fleet: contact@validiti.com for negotiated annual.
Every Validiti SKU inherits the same Safe · Fast · Smart guarantees from the shared substrate — encryption, tamper-evident history, runtime defense, predictable performance. Same code, same proof, same floor on every install.
