Platform / AIQR Edge
One gateway instead of one integration per printer brand.
AIQR Edge sits between your ERP and the packaging line. It drives the coder, checks every printed code, pulls failures off the line, and reports back — on your own hardware, and without depending on your internet connection.
The problem
Integration debt, and a line that stops.
Every printer speaks its own protocol
Connecting industrial coders to an ERP is bespoke integration work, and it breaks again on the next firmware update or hardware swap. The cost is not the first integration — it is every one after it.
When a line stops, the expert is elsewhere
An operator facing a fault mid-shift waits for a specialist who may be in another city. On a packaging line, that wait is measured in thousands of units per hour.
Cloud-only tools fail exactly when needed
Plants are frequently air-gapped or on poor connectivity. A troubleshooting tool that needs the internet is unavailable precisely at the moment the line is down.
What it connects
The whole line, behind one interface.
Each device sits behind a driver interface, so a different make on a future line is a configuration exercise rather than a rebuild.
Coders
Thermal inkjet, continuous inkjet and laser marking systems driven directly at line speed.
Vision readers
Every printed code checked at unit level, so an unreadable code is caught rather than shipped.
Reject systems
Failed units driven off the line automatically instead of being reconciled after the fact.
Sensors and encoders
Shaft encoders and line sensors keep print geometry locked to actual line speed.
Labellers and check-weighers
Carton identity at pack-out, with weight as an independent completeness check.
ERP
Serial allocation and carton registration against the live production order.
Product tiers
Start at one printer. Grow to the whole site.
AIQR Edge Lite
Operator desktop application for a single printer.
Best for One line, one coder, fastest path to serialized output.
AIQR Edge Gateway
On-premise service: job queue, store-and-forward, multi-printer, ERP sync.
Best for Multiple coders on a site that must keep running through network loss.
AIQR Edge Enterprise
Full line orchestration with deep ERP integration.
Best for Multi-line and multi-site operations with formal validation requirements.
Deployment
On your hardware. Behind your firewall.
The deployment model is the differentiator. Plant IT gets remote manageability without opening anything inbound.
Runs on your hardware
Deployed on plant-owned machines, not a vendor appliance you rent.
Fully siloed
Its own contained runtime, a dedicated service account and capped resources, so it cannot starve anything else on the machine.
Local data stays local
Production data never leaves the plant.
Outbound-only management
Fleet dashboard, remote logs, signed over-the-air updates and audited remote configuration all run over a connection the plant initiates.
No inbound ports
Nothing for plant IT to punch through a firewall — usually the shortest security review in the project.
Edge Intelligence — roadmap
Help at the line, not in another city.
This is our development roadmap, published so you can plan against it. None of the capabilities below are available today — each shows its current status. Ask us for the timeline rather than assuming one.
Assist
Milestone 1 — in designAn offline troubleshooting copilot. A small language model runs locally on the plant's own hardware, grounded in per-printer playbooks and live gateway telemetry, so an operator gets a first answer without waiting for a specialist. Works with no internet. Multilingual: English, Hindi, Malayalam and Arabic.
Watch
Milestone 2Telemetry anomaly detection and predictive maintenance.
Verify
RoadmapCamera-based print quality checking.
Adapt
RoadmapAutomatic printer protocol fingerprinting.