Combining SmartHub.ai’s distributed edge platform with Ziroh Labs’ CPU-optimized Kompact AI to enable secure, on-premises intelligence where enterprise data already lives
As enterprises look to apply AI to increasingly large volumes of operational and device data, and get quick intelligent actions, one challenge is becoming harder to ignore: where should that intelligence run?
For organizations managing thousands of IoT and OT devices across distributed locations, moving all that data to the cloud for AI processing can introduce bandwidth, latency, security, and data-sovereignty challenges.
SmartHub.ai and Ziroh Labs are addressing this challenge through an integration that brings together SmartHub.ai’s edge platform and Ziroh Labs’ Kompact AI technology, creating an approach to AI that can operate closer to the source of enterprise edge data.
From Distributed Data to Distributed Intelligence
SmartHub.ai already operates across highly distributed enterprise environments, providing visibility and management across large numbers of IoT and edge endpoints. These environments generate significant volumes of operational data at individual sites.
Traditionally, organizations may centralize that data before applying advanced analytics or AI. At enterprise scale, however, constantly moving data to centralized infrastructure can consume significant time and network bandwidth.
The SmartHub.ai and Ziroh Labs integration takes a different approach: bring intelligence closer to the data.
Kompact AI enables open-weight AI models to run on-premises and is designed to optimize AI inference for CPU-based infrastructure. This creates the potential to process AI workloads in the environments where SmartHub.ai’s data is already being generated and managed—without depending entirely on centralized GPU infrastructure.
“AI has the potential to fundamentally change how enterprises operate their physical and digital infrastructure in today’s Edge Physical AI led operations. For us, the opportunity is not simply about bringing an LLM to the edge, but about embedding intelligence into the operational environments where IoT and OT (Edge) data is generated and decisions need to be made. Our collaboration with Ziroh Labs and Kompact AI allows us to take an important step in that direction, bringing AI closer to enterprise’ edge where decisions are to be made while enabling greater control over data, operations and deployment,” Arun Narayanaswamy, Co-founder & CTO, SmartHub.ai.
AI Without Moving the Data
For many enterprises, keeping operational data within their own infrastructure is not simply an architectural preference. Security, compliance, privacy, and data-sovereignty requirements can make sending data to external AI services difficult or undesirable. Running AI locally can help address these concerns.
With SmartHub.ai providing the distributed edge data and operational context, and Kompact AI providing the AI execution layer, organizations can explore AI use cases while keeping data closer to its source. The approach is particularly relevant for environments where data movement, cloud dependency, or GPU infrastructure requirements can become barriers to scaling AI.
“As factories become increasingly intelligent, they generate vast amounts of data — much of which is critical and sensitive. SmartHub’s solution addresses this need by enabling smart factories to protect their critical data at all costs. We are very happy to support SmartHub by providing on-premises or own-cloud VPC-based AI inferencing through Kompact AI, making factories smarter and more efficient,” Hrishikesh Dewan, Founder and CEO of Ziroh Labs.
A New Model for Enterprise AI
As AI adoption expands into IoT, OT, and other distributed environments, this edge-native approach could provide organizations with a practical way to bring intelligence closer to the operational systems that generate the data in the first place.
The collaboration between SmartHub.ai and Ziroh Labs reflects a simple idea: Instead of moving enterprise data to AI, bring AI closer to where the data is generated.
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About SmartHub.ai
SmartHub.ai is an award-winning, AI/ML-powered Enterprise IoT SecOps company. Enterprise IoT and OT devices are the fastest-growing shadow infrastructure in enterprises today: unmanaged, unpatched, and invisible to the IT security stack that was never built for them.
SmartHub.ai closes that gap with SmartHub INFER™ for unified device lifecycle management and GSOC threat visibility, and SmartHub NeuralEdge™, an agentic AI layer for predictive analytics and compliance automation. It is deployed globally across various industry segments like Physical Security, AV/Workplaces, Manufacturing, Energy & Utilities, Hospitality, Banking & Financial Services, Healthcare and Retail.
The company is headquartered in Bay Area, CA, with offices in Seattle and Bengaluru. Learn more at www.smarthub.ai.
About Ziroh Labs
Ziroh Labs is a global startup with offices in Palo Alto and Bengaluru, redefining AI infrastructure with Kompact AI, an AI platform that enables large language model (LLM) inference on CPUs. The platform is designed to make AI workloads more affordable and accessible and is uniquely positioned to drive AI adoption in cost-sensitive and data-regulated industries. Visit https://www.ziroh.com/