Before inference runs, the Sensor Manager scores each stream — calibration drift, occlusion, exposure, thermal state, ISP behaviour. Every downstream confidence carries this signal.
Continuous, sub-frame, fed into the validation envelope.
Intrinsics, extrinsics, geometric drift across multi-camera rigs. Re-projection error tracked frame-to-frame.
Per-region foreground/background masking. Reliability degrades gracefully when a sensor is partially blocked.
SoC and image-sensor temperature. Auto-throttle reasoning load when junction temps approach derating bands.
Auto-exposure stability, dynamic-range health, low-light SNR — feeds back into per-region confidence.
Closed-loop ISP tuning that learns per site, per camera. White balance, tone curves, denoising co-evolved with the scene.
Cross-stream reliability — when one sensor degrades, weight shifts automatically toward higher-confidence peers.
The Sensor Manager is part of every VAOS deployment by default. No opt-in, no configuration overhead.