What common mistakes derail edge AI deployment projects?
The most common mistake is focusing only on model accuracy (F1 score) while completely ignoring inference speed and battery drain. A highly accurate model that drains device battery quickly is useless for practical applications. Another mistake is building the AI model in isolation, which leads to discovering late in development that the app's core functionality is hostage to the model's performance and size, requiring costly rework of the entire mobile application architecture.