A sustainable off-grid optical character recognition server was developed using a solar-powered iPhone 8 leveraging Apple’s Vision framework for machine learning tasks. This approach highlights how legacy mobile hardware can be effectively repurposed for long-running data processing tasks, saving significant electricity costs compared to traditional desktop or server infrastructure. Developers can look to such edge computing solutions as a viable way to keep decommissioned devices out of landfills while maintaining functional server applications.
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