Tick 33 — 2026-05-22 10:31 UTC

Thread: R17 (industrial safety) — second new exotic vertical Verdict: Industrial vertical composes the same loop primitives as R16 healthcare, with different ADR-113 matrix rows (presence + vital-signs at coarser resolution) and R7 mincut becomes binding rather than nice-to-have due to hostile industrial RF.

What shipped

• docs/research/sota-2026-05-22/R17-industrial-safety.md — full vertical sketch + R16 parallel comparison.

Three deployment scenarios

Scenario	Timeline	Cost vs status quo
Warehouse zone (100 m²)	5y	$80/zone vs $500-2000 camera + monitoring
Construction site	10y	per-project federation
Refinery / chemical plant	15y	adds CSI to existing gas + cam + badge infrastructure

R17 vs R16 parallel

	R16 healthcare	R17 industrial
Subjects	patients	workers
Mobility	stationary	mobile
Coverage	30 m² ward	100-1000 m² zone
ADR-113 row	vital-signs (chest, N=5)	presence (body, N=3-4)
Privacy regime	HIPAA / FDA	OSHA / employment
R7 mincut	nice-to-have	binding
Failure cost	missed clinical event	missed safety event

Same architecture, different parameter regime. Loop's primitives form a vertical-agnostic infrastructure layer.

Five specialised cog roadmap items

Cog	Timeline	Primitive
cog-fall-detection	5y	R12.1 + PPE-tuning
cog-zone-occupancy	5y	R12 PABS + R6.2.5
cog-lone-worker-vitals	5y	R14 V1 (rate-only per R13)
cog-worker-fatigue	10y	R10 gait + R15
cog-multi-zone-orchestrator	5y	R6.2.5 + ADR-105 fed

Why R7 mincut becomes binding

Industrial RF environment has legitimate noise (cell, BLE tools, walkie-talkies) that must be disambiguated from sensor compromise. R7 Stoer-Wagner mincut on N ≥ 4 anchors is the only defence; ADR-113 already requires N ≥ 4 for multi-feature cogs, which conveniently satisfies the industrial requirement.

PPE-specific body model needed (R6.1 follow-up)

Construction PPE (hard hat, high-vis vest, safety harness, tool belt, steel-toed boots) changes per-part reflectivity by ~5-15%. ~1-2 weeks of labelled-data work for cog-industrial-pose.

R10 gait + worker fatigue (10y mid-term)

R10's gait taxonomy extends within humans:

• Walking 1.2-2.5 Hz
• Fatigued walking 0.8-1.5 Hz (slower + asymmetric)
• Impaired walking: asymmetry > 25%

OSHA-aligned: pre-incident detection of worker fatigue via gait drift over a shift.

Honest scope

• Synthetic data only; bench validation required for OSHA-grade claims
• PPE-specific body model unbuilt (R6.1 body model is bare-clothed)
• Outdoor / weather effects partly transfer from R10 foliage model
• Worker consent operational, not architectural
• Liability + insurance for missed-event failures outside this scope
• Audit trail integration with SAP / Maximo / etc. is per-customer

R17 closes the parallel-vertical demonstration

After R17, the loop has demonstrated vertical-agnostic infrastructure: same primitives → R10 wildlife / R11 maritime / R14 home empathic appliances / R16 healthcare / R17 industrial. Outputs that generalise beyond original problems is the mark of well-factored research.

Composes with every loop thread

• R1, R5, R6/R6.1, R6.2.5, R7 (binding here), R10, R12/R12.1, R13 NEGATIVE, R14, R15
• ADR-113 (placement matrix), ADR-105-109 (full privacy + PQC chain)
• R16 (parallel pattern)

Coordination

ticks/tick-33.md. No PROGRESS.md edit. Branch research/sota-r17-industrial-safety.

Loop summary update

Five exotic verticals + cross-thread identity work:

1. R10 wildlife (animal conservation)
2. R11 maritime (vessel safety + crew monitoring)
3. R14 empathic appliances (home)
4. R16 healthcare ward
5. R17 industrial safety

~1.4h to cron stop.