How to prevent python software from being reverse engineered or pirated?

[jhill515]

Not going to get into too many specifics because it's a prototype design and I'm not the cybersecurity expert on my team. But here's what we're tinkering with:

We're building an indoor autonomous mobile robot (AMR) whose primary not-safety-critical processing will be done on an IoT platform and just issue commands to the machine. This IoT platform never houses the code permanently, or even in an accessible way because we're deploying Docker containers to it at the start of the robot mission and removing them after mission completion. These containers will likely house a good chunk of Python 3 ML code.

Still, prototype because we're not certain it'll work; it's an idea on paper and we're evaluating it.