SVA Tech, a Brazilian computer vision software house operating since 2016, has been using the Quectel AI Box QB560, powered by the Qualcomm Robotics RB5165 Platform, which features 15 TOPS NPU, since 2024. The company designs and operates the SmartVision platform, a catalog of more than 55 ready-to-deploy video analytics for industrial safety, asset integrity, perimeter protection, retail intelligence, and smart infrastructure.

SVA Tech’s solutions run natively at the edge, on AIoT modules and gateways. It currently serves more than 30 enterprise customers across mining, logistics, retail, utilities, and data centers, with active operations in Brazil and expansion in progress to Mexico and other Latin American markets.

“We chose this module because it delivers strong AI performance at the edge in a compact, industrial-grade form factor,” explains Roberto Fernandino, the CEO and Founder of SVA Tech. “It runs our SmartVision analytics natively, supports multiple high-resolution camera streams in parallel, ships with integrated 5G and Wi-Fi connectivity options, and is backed by Quectel’s commercial and engineering teams in Latin America. The QB560 is our reference hardware for deployments where AI processing must happen on site, with no dependency on uplink bandwidth.”

Up the conveyor belt to success

A flagship use case is conveyor belt inspection in mining operations. The challenges are well known: belts are long and often measured in kilometers, located in remote sites with poor connectivity, exposed to dust, vibration, and temperature swings, and a single undetected longitudinal rip can stop production for hours and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Sending continuous high-resolution video to the cloud is not viable in these locations.

The Quectel QB560 overcomes these constraints by running SVA Tech’s SmartVision conveyor belt analytics directly at the edge: detecting rips, longitudinal cuts, material spillage, misalignment, foreign objects, and unusual wear in real time. Only metadata and event clips are transmitted, the system keeps working during connectivity outages, and the appliance meets the durability requirements of harsh mining environments. In our reference deployments, link bandwidth dropped by more than 80% versus cloud-only architectures and end-to-end alert latency is below 1 second.

Current deployments of the solution are mainly in Brazil, with active deployments in Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Pará, and Maranhão at mining sites, ports, heavy industry, retail, and data centers. Expansion is in progress to Mexico and other Latin American markets through partner channels, including joint go-to-market with Quectel.

Industrial-grade designs with flexible connectivity

SVA Tech selected Quectel to achieve compute capacity at the edge for SmartVision, which the Quectel QB560 inside the Qualcomm QRB5165 delivers with the NPU performance, low latency, and predictable behavior the company’s multi-stream analytics require. SVA Tech was also attracted to the QB560’s industrial-grade design as a complete, certified appliance with cooling, I/O, connectivity, and durability already engineered for field deployment in mining and heavy industry. In addition, SVA Tech welcomes the connectivity options of native 5G, Wi-Fi, and Ethernet to make the product suitable for remote sites as well as the Quectel regional team, which is making joint go-to-market with customers viable and predictable.

The results have been impressive. Aggregated metrics across production deployments using the QB560 include:

• Up to 32 video analytics processed in parallel per appliance, depending on the analytic mix.
• More than 80% reduction in external bandwidth consumption versus cloud-only deployments.
• End-to-end alert latency below one second from camera to operator dashboard.
• Deployment time from purchase order to live operation reduced from an average of 90 days for custom builds to 30 to 45 days for standard, appliance-based rollout.

When it comes to conveyor belt inspection, detection of longitudinal rips at early stages and preventing extended unplanned downtime events for industrial customers has been achieved. At one reference industrial customer, PPE compliance lifted from 73% to 96% in four months of operation. In addition, early detection of fire and smoke has been achieved ahead of conventional thermal sensors at electrical rooms, preventing two incidents in production over the last 12 months.

Customer benefits

“Across our production base of more than 30 enterprise customers, the combined SVA SmartVision plus Quectel QB560 solution has delivered early detection of conveyor belt damage and material spillage in mining operations, prevented extended unplanned downtime that historically costs hundreds of thousands of dollars per event, and supported a 38% reduction in theft and shrinkage events at retail sites during peak hours, in a rollout of over 500 stores,” confirms Fernandino. “100% of unauthorized after-hours access attempts have been identified within 5 seconds at a data center perimeter. This comprised 40 cameras with zero false negatives in 12 months of red-team exercises. Average operator response time has also reduced from 4 minutes 30 seconds to 1 minute 15 seconds in the retail rollout.”

“It’s exciting to see the results SVA Tech is achieving for its customers with the Quectel QB560,” says Ricardo Simon, Senior Regional Sales Director for Brazil at Quectel Wireless Solutions. “It’s great to be involved with a company pushing innovation in computer vision and edge intelligence across mining, heavy industry, and smart infrastructure. We’re looking forward to continuing to collaborate and work on our joint go-to-market initiatives.”

The Quectel QB560 series of multi-mode 5G edge computing boxes are ideal devices for industrial and consumer applications that require high data rates and computing power. Compliant with 3GPP Release 15 specification, the products support 5G NSA, SA, 4G and 3G network. In addition, the computing boxes support Wi-Fi 6E and DBS, Wi-Fi 2 × 2 MU-MIMO and Bluetooth 5.2.

“Quectel has been a strategic enabler for our SmartVision platform,” concludes Fernandino. “The QB560 gave us a single, industrial-grade reference appliance that runs our full computer vision stack at the edge, in the conditions our mining and industrial customers actually operate in, including enablement of continuous conveyor belt inspection. The team has been highly responsive, technically competent, and proactive in opening commercial doors across Latin America. We are now scaling this partnership into new markets, with a clear roadmap for joint expansion in 2026 and beyond.”