Protocol-Agnostic Interfaces
The sensor abstraction layer normalizes inputs from a wide range of sensor types, industrial protocols, and digital data sources into a single internal format. To the processing layer, a normalized sensor reading always looks the same, regardless of whether it originally came from a vibration sensor, a PLC bus, or a digital data stream.
Standardized Driver Model
New sensor types are integrated via a standardized driver model without modifying core processing components. That's why a SynapSync deployment can adapt to a grown, heterogeneous sensor landscape instead of requiring a uniform sensor infrastructure that rarely exists in practice.
Where This Matters in Practice
This abstraction is the prerequisite for Henri's nine parallel anomaly detection skills: each skill targets a distinct signal class, regardless of which physical protocol the signal originally arrived over. Without a clean abstraction layer, each detection skill would need to carry its own protocol-specific logic — with the abstraction, all nine work against the same normalized input format.