Environmental Change Detection and Response
Objective
Detect when actual operating conditions exceed the validated environment specification and respond appropriately.
Control / requirement
Environmental sensing tied to defined thresholds, triggering alert or operational restriction when exceeded.
Applicability
All physical AI systems operating in variable or uncontrolled environments.
Expected evidence
Environmental monitoring logs; threshold-breach response records. [T2/T3]
Assurance expectation
Evidence the response is appropriate to the specific environmental factor exceeded, not a single generic response.
Dependencies
PAI-SF-AUT-003 (Domain 4) — the graduated response ladder is owned there; ENV-002 owns detecting the environmental trigger that feeds it.
Exclusions
Not applicable to fully environmentally-controlled operating contexts (e.g., a fixed indoor facility with no variability).
Maturity / conformance relevance
Expected at Operational and High-Assurance levels.
Ecosystem relationship
The detection half of a detection-plus-response pair whose response half lives in Domain 4 — an explicit, intentional cross-domain link, not an accidental overlap, per the locked boundary paragraph.