Mentra engineer on smart glasses in weak-network job sites: local STT offline, calls need just 1-1.5 Mbps
caydengineer · x · 2026-10-30
An engineer behind the Mentra AI glasses shared deployment lessons for enterprise smart glasses on job sites with poor connectivity:
- Offline fallback: when on-site internet is missing or spotty, they run local speech-to-text and summarization models on the phone to keep documentation going continuously.
- Bandwidth numbers: Mentra Call needs roughly 1 to 1.5 Mbps sustained uplink; it can drop lower but video quality degrades.
- Field reality: most customers have decent internet, but job sites rarely do — and for remote repairs, one sharp frame of the faulty part matters more than smooth video of the whole scene.
Practical reference for anyone deploying wearable or embodied AI hardware in the field.
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