# Product Overview

> What Xisom Edge AI Box & Runtime is, who it's for, and how it fits your industrial stack.

**Xisom Edge AI Box** is an industrial edge appliance and runtime that brings real-time AI inference to your plant floor — no cloud round-trip required.

## Core capabilities

- **Real-time inference** — ONNX models with TensorRT, CUDA, or CPU execution to match your hardware.
- **Streaming ingestion** — connect OPC-UA, MQTT, and CSV input sources.
- **Output writeback** — send predictions and setpoints to PLCs, brokers, and files.
- **Model lifecycle** — upload, pair with a datasource, and activate.
- **Observability** — built-in latency, throughput, and execution-provider dashboard.
- **Hardened deployment** — air-gapped offline install, non-root containers, RBAC, audit log.

## Who it's for

- **Plant engineers** automating quality inspection and predictive maintenance.
- **System integrators** connecting AI models to existing SCADA/MES systems.
- **OT/IT teams** needing on-prem inference without exposing data to cloud.

## Architecture at a glance

```mermaid
flowchart LR
  Sensors[PLC / Sensors] --> Gateway[Datasource Gateway]
  Gateway --> Runtime[Inference Runtime]
  Runtime --> Bus[Event Bus / SignalR]
  Bus --> UI[Web Dashboard]
  Bus --> Mes[MES / Historian]
```

## Next

- Try the [Quickstart](/install-deploy/quickstart/) (≈15 min)
- Install on an edge box with the [Offline Bundle Install](/install-deploy/offline-bundle-install/)
- Browse [Use Cases](/use-cases/)