# Visia

> Visia is the physical intelligence layer for heavy industry. The world's most critical metals, recycling, energy, and logistics operators run faster, safer, and more profitably on Visia.

Visia deploys computer vision across industrial facilities: conveyor belts, tip floors, scale houses, shredder infeeds, and sortation lines. Cameras and X-ray sensors feed edge devices that run detection and segmentation models in realtime on-site, and the Solstice platform turns those detections into material composition, contamination rates, hazard alerts, and compliance reporting. Models are trained per site and per material stream rather than shipped as a one-size-fits-all product. Visia powers more than 10 million detections every day.

## The Solstice platform

Solstice is Visia's AI platform for physical operations: real-time detection, monitoring, and analytics tuned to each facility — a per-site AI playbook rather than a generic model.

- Multi-modal and VLM-native: models identify, classify, and reason about every piece of material moving through an operation, autonomously and in real time, without human review loops
- Sensor-flexible: connects existing camera systems, X-ray units, LiDAR, or other sensor feeds, or Visia deploys purpose-built hardware where fidelity demands it — hardware is selected per application, without vendor lock-in
- Real-time classification and tracking of material on moving belts and floors
- Automated contamination detection and composition analysis without manual review
- Hazard detection before equipment damage, with pre-incident alerts to operators
- Consistent grading across shifts; deduction automation tied to scale systems
- Compliance monitoring 24/7 and cross-facility benchmarking
- Continuous improvement: every material interaction trains the system, and cross-sector learning means each new deployment makes existing ones faster and more accurate

## What Visia detects and measures

- Hazards: lithium batteries, propane and pressurized tanks, e-waste, and other fire and explosion risks caught before shredders and balers
- Contaminants and non-conforming loads at intake, before they shut down production
- Material composition and class mix of a stream, measured continuously from production camera footage
- Operational data that moves capital planning and daily efficiency: burden depth, composition tracking, throughput, near misses

## How a deployment works (Field Engineering)

Visia treats deployment as an engineering discipline, not a hardware install. Field engineers embed with the facility and engineer intelligence directly into its workflows:

1. Operational discovery: embed with operators to map real workflows, document the decision points where intelligence adds value, and define success metrics with the site's team
2. Deploy: install sensors at high-leverage intervention points and build custom playbooks for the site's material types and workflows
3. Integrate: connect Solstice to the facility's existing operational systems (including scale systems) and identify integration touchpoints
4. Improve: operator training, change management, ongoing support, continuous model improvement from cross-site learning, and replication of proven playbooks across facilities

## Industries

- Recycling and waste management: MRFs, transfer stations, C&D — composition, contamination, and compliance
- Metals: scrap yards, shredders, and secondary metals processing — pre-shred hazard detection and grading
- Electronics recycling: hazardous-item removal and throughput on high-volume e-waste lines
- Energy and logistics: incoming-material inspection and safety monitoring

## Case studies

- [Premier Recycle](https://www.visia.ai/case-studies/premier-recycle): compliance auditing moved from clipboards and spreadsheets to automated reporting — roughly 80 operational hours saved per month, 100% of audit reports automated, 98%+ material classification accuracy
- [Rumpke](https://www.visia.ai/case-studies/rumpke-operations): after a $10M fire, autonomous hazard detection ahead of the shredder — around 60 hazards caught per day, zero fires since the Solstice deployment, 24/7 monitoring with no human oversight required
- [PedalPoint Electronics](https://www.visia.ai/case-studies/pedalpoint-electronics): hazardous-item screening on high-volume electronics — 10–30 hazardous items removed per load, 300% increase in sorting throughput, 67% reduction in QC staffing
- [Amerigo Metals](https://www.visia.ai/case-studies/amerigo-metals): continuous pre-shred monitoring with real-time pressurized-tank detection, enabling intervention before processing

## What customers say

- "Battery fires are the single biggest problem in our industry. A Visia system at every facility in the country will soon be a no-brainer." — CEO, Premier Recycle Company
- "I've been impressed with Visia's sheer speed of work. Something I thought would take years has taken a matter of months." — Director of Finance and Technology, Colt Recycling

## Recognition

- Winner, U.S. Department of Energy Lithium-Ion Recycling Prize Breakthrough Contest (Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation)
- Covered by the Bureau of International Recycling and the Construction & Demolition Recycling Association

## Pages

- [Platform](https://www.visia.ai/platform): the Solstice platform and how the vision system works end to end
- [Field Engineering](https://www.visia.ai/field-engineering): how deployments are discovered, installed, integrated, and improved on site
- [Case Studies](https://www.visia.ai/case-studies): measured customer outcomes
- [About](https://www.visia.ai/about): company, team, and press
- [Jobs](https://www.visia.ai/jobs): open roles, including Deployment Engineer, Go-to-Market Engineer, and Deployment Strategist
- [Contact](https://www.visia.ai/contact-us): scope what Solstice can do for your facilities

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