The Power Apps Component Framework (PCF) has evolved to support Native Vision Pipelines. Developers can now build React-based controls that hook into the device's camera stream and perform real-time tensor analysis locally before passing structured metadata back to the Power App. This eliminates the latency of traditional 'send-to-cloud' vision loops for high-speed manufacturing or security scenarios.
By declaring capabilities in the ControlManifest.Input.xml, a PCF control can request secure, sandboxed access to local hardware resources (GPU, NPU) to accelerate neural reasoning within the host container.
Build the shell of a custom PCF control from the terminal: scaffold with the Power Platform CLI, then compile it with npm.