An Australian property group was running cloud-based computer vision across 20 sites. The cloud bill was growing, and the response times were not getting any faster.
The problem
The property group had signed up with a US cloud CV vendor in 2022. By 2025, the per-site egress cost had doubled, the model latency on regional sites was 400–500ms, and the security team was increasingly uncomfortable with raw video crossing the Pacific. They wanted to move, but they did not want a forklift upgrade.
Our deployment
We ran a phased migration. Two sites first, on a parallel Canopy edge deployment, running alongside the cloud pipeline for four weeks. We compared counts, latency and cost. Then we migrated the other 18 sites, four at a time, on weekends. The cloud vendor was turned off site by site.
The result
The migration took three months, with zero downtime. The security team was able to retire the cross-border data flow. The property group now runs all 20 sites on Canopy edge units, with a single Sydney-hosted control plane.
Implementation details
The migration ran in parallel. We installed Canopy CU-2 units at two pilot sites alongside the existing cloud pipeline, and ran both for four weeks. We compared counts, latency and cost. The edge pipeline matched the cloud pipeline on counts within 3%, cut inference latency from 420ms to under 20ms, and reduced per-site egress cost by 60%. The security team retired the cross-border data flow for those two sites, and signed off on the pattern.
The remaining 18 sites were migrated four at a time, on weekends. We worked with the property group's IT team to schedule the cutover. The cloud vendor was turned off site by site. The property group's BMS and CAFM systems continued to receive events from the Canopy control plane, on the same JSON schema the cloud vendor had provided — no integration work was needed on their side.
Ongoing support
The migration is complete. All 20 sites run on Canopy edge units, with a single Sydney-hosted control plane. We visit each site once a year for a cleaning and inspection. Firmware updates are pushed automatically. The property group has added two new sites in the last year, on the same pattern.