Not the person you asked, but working on remote sensing and perception I have seen (not once) the teams turning from improving use of available sensor data to things like cutting edge messaging technologies to support real-time data delivery from thousands of sensors (when they have three sensors today and might get another one next year and their current simple streaming will work just fine for up to 20).
While those are interesting problems they have nothing to do with their current perception challenges (that have to be solved for a successful deployment), steal resources from the team and make life harder for a few remaining people actually working to solve current challenges, as they now need to switch to a more complex messaging and rewrite some of their existing utilities.
While those are interesting problems they have nothing to do with their current perception challenges (that have to be solved for a successful deployment), steal resources from the team and make life harder for a few remaining people actually working to solve current challenges, as they now need to switch to a more complex messaging and rewrite some of their existing utilities.