Use case 20 Earn nowRetrofit · 64 GB Mac mini
Persistent memory for city service fleets and their crews: recurring problems per street or park, handovers, work orders, local to the city.
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Cities are adopting autonomous sweepers on robotics-as-a-service contracts, AI road inspection from vehicle-mounted phones, and AI telematics for their fleets. Each tool is strong in its lane and cloud-based; the city's memory of which street keeps flooding and what the crew did last time is not joined up.
Machines and chips in use: Trombia Free and Bucher/Enway autonomous sweepers; phones on vehicles (vialytics); telematics and AI dashcams (Samsara).
| Solution | Type | Machine and chip | Where its AI thinks | Lasting memory | Offline | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PrismaticWe make it | Lasting local mind (never controls motion or safety) | Mac mini M5 Pro 64 GB as the site's control centre (retrofit) | Local only Measured | Lasting memory with sources, receipts and handover Measured | Yes Measured | US$12 per vehicle a month, unlimited turns; 64 GB Mac mini (M5 Pro) about US$2,699 once per site (proposed sector licence) Estimate |
| Autonomous sweeper (Enway) · Bucher Municipal | Autonomous municipal sweeper | Bucher CityCat with Enway software | Onboard autonomy Reported | Not disclosed Not disclosed | Yes Reported | Not disclosed Not disclosed |
| Samsara · Samsara | AI fleet telematics | Vehicle gateways and AI dashcams; cloud | Cloud Published | Fleet and maintenance records Published | No Reported | Subscription Reported |
| Trombia Free · Trombia Technologies | Autonomous electric street sweeper | Electric autonomous sweeper | Onboard autonomy Reported | Not disclosed Not disclosed | Yes Reported | Robotics-as-a-service (8-year contract in Porvoo, reported) Reported |
| vialytics · vialytics | AI road condition assessment | Phone on the vehicle; cloud AI | Cloud Published | Road condition history Published | No Reported | Packages (published on site) Published |
Sector price: US$12 per vehicle a month, unlimited. Proposed list prices in US dollars; change the numbers and everything updates.
What this sector pays today: Municipal fleet telematics US$10-33 per vehicle a month (Geotab, Samsara) (Reported, source). That is often a whole product; Prismatic adds the lasting local memory beside it. Hardware is bought by you from Apple or NVIDIA. Electricity at 14.2¢/kWh around the clock. Prices are proposals until the first customer agrees them. How Prismatic is licensed
Jobs that return to the same street.
How it works: cost = orders × repeat share × cost.
One card per solution. Strengths first; gaps are about this job, not about the product being bad.
Our review. Approved for public roads in Singapore; now inside a major sweeper maker.
Gaps for this job. Sweeping autonomy only.
Sources: buchermunicipal.com
Our review. The leading connected-operations cloud, used by many public fleets.
Gaps for this job. Cloud; vehicle data rather than the city's narrative.
Sources: samsara.com
Our review. Full-power autonomous sweeping with 85% energy saving claimed; in service in Finland.
Gaps for this job. One job; night sweeping records only.
Sources: kurrant.com · trombia.com
Our review. 300+ municipalities; photographs roads every 10 feet and finds defects automatically.
Gaps for this job. Road condition data, not decisions and crews' memory.
Sources: vialytics.com
The maker's view · the chart above is unchanged
Host: Mac mini M5 Pro 64 GB as the site's control centre (retrofit).
Hosts. Prismatic runs on a 64 GB Mac mini (M5 Pro) beside machines that already work, and is carried next into new machines on the Jetson AGX Orin 64 GB, the host for greenfield sites.
Licence here (proposed sector price, US$): US$12 per vehicle a month, unlimited turns. What this sector pays today: Municipal fleet telematics US$10-33 per vehicle a month (Geotab, Samsara) Reported source. Design-partner pilot: US$5,000 for 90 days, credited in full to the first year's licence. How Prismatic is licensed
Status: Runs today on the prototype; imports from city systems are to build. Features used: Recurrences, Work orders, Shift handover, Receipt ledger / audit, Local-only.
A day with it: The brief shows the same storm drain blocked after every heavy rain on one street; a work order and a card for engineering are proposed with evidence.
Genesis Blueprint · Project blueprint (PRD)
City service fleets and crews that remember every street and park, every recurring problem, locally. One spring road-repair season with response targets is a project.
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Retrofit sites pay first on a 64 GB Mac mini (M5 Pro) beside machines that already work. Greenfield machines carry the same mind inside, on the Jetson AGX Orin 64 GB, licensed per machine. The horizon (blackouts, wilderness, space) is where a mind that needs no cloud is not a feature but the point.
Onboard chips of the sweepers.
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Makes vehicles and equipment for cleaning and maintaining streets and public spaces. [1]
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Makes equipment that sweeps and cleans streets, including autonomous electric sweepers. [1] [2]
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Uses cameras and software to help road authorities inspect and maintain streets. [1]
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