The market for camera based electronics is deep. You compete with the cream of global brands when you start dabbling in optics, screens and scanning tools.
The potential of any new product is like popcorn. Some pop, some don't. If the timing is right and the right market conditions appear, things can grow fast.
At infrastructure scale, buyers don't just evaluate the hardware or the brand. They ask who answers when something fails, at night, in their time zone.
Most network management is still done manually. On a stormy day, that's exactly when you can't send people down, exactly when overflow risk is highest.
An inductive sensor on a water meter is a way of turning a mechanical meter into a digital one without opening it up or interfering with the measurement.
Batteries are the most capital intensive, fast depreciating part of a light EV. A viable independent network essentially becomes an asset-heavy leasing business