Camera-free monitoring for critical facilities

Your facility already knows who’s in it.
Now it can prove it.

Occupancy, intrusion and compliance evidence from RF sensing, not cameras — $4 nodes that read the radio field, decide at the edge in under 100 ms, and keep reporting when the network is down. The space narrates itself into a live Reality Twin that explains why, not just logs what.

Flagship: data centers & colocation · also oil & gas, warehouses, telco, manufacturing

Live OLED feed behind — node on a workbench, real frames

Flagship vertical · Data Center & Colocation

Cages where cameras can’t go. Evidence auditors can use.

Per-cage occupancy, intrusion detection and SOC 2 CC6.4 physical-access evidence — camera-free, out-of-band, on $4 nodes. A 30-day fixed-fee pilot with the success metric named before hardware ships: if we miss it, you don’t pay.

Same stack, other floors: oil & gas · warehouse · telco · manufacturing · general industrial

LatentField pipeline · validation summary

Confirmed on ~200 GB of real CSI.

215Pipeline tests passed
~200 GBCSI dataset processed
56Subcarriers · per inference
8Latent fields · per frame
<100 msEdge inference latency

End-to-end validated: NeRF · MVE · compressed sensing · compartment models

Watch · 1 min 40

See it work, end to end.

A chip on a desk → it captures → it decides on-chip → the agent acts → it pings your phone. No cloud round-trip.

An agent that lives on the sensor — the 100-second tour ▶ press play

The chip this is all about → read how the agent works.

It reads across your stack — it doesn't replace it

Every system you run watches one slice. This reads across all of them.

SCADA, building management, security, telecom, energy — each one is brilliant at its own corner and blind to the rest. They all quietly answer the same question: what changed? DarkIOC fuses edge + RF sensing with the telemetry you already have and turns the lot into one narrative — a Reality Twin of the site.

Industrial

SCADA & ICS

PLCs, RTUs, historians, process control — fused with what the room actually did.

Facilities

Building management (BMS)

HVAC, lighting, access control, occupancy — cross-checked against real presence and movement.

Security

SIEM & SOC

Network alerts correlated with physical reality — an RF emitter that appeared, a cabinet that opened.

Telecom

OSS / BSS

Network and customer telemetry — joined to the site's physical state, not read in isolation.

Ops

AIOps & observability

Metrics, logs, traces, tickets — given a physical-world context the dashboards never had.

Energy

Energy management (EMS)

Consumption and demand — explained by occupancy and activity, zone by zone.

Access

Access & CCTV

Badge events and camera triggers — confirmed (or contradicted) by RF presence.

Twin

Digital Twins

The model of what should happen — checked against what is happening, live.

How the Reality Twin fuses it →

Field notes · the thinking behind it

The thread worth following.

Three pieces trace the whole idea: After PQC — why trust shifts back to physical reality · Reality Twin — the doctrine · Reality Compression Engine — billions of measurements, one narrative. Plus the sourced paper, When Space Talks Back, and the build log of an agent that lives on the sensor.

All field notes →

Three things camera-first can't do

The moat is physics, not features.

Resilience

Survive jamming

Under WiFi jamming, ESP32 nodes retry more aggressively — which means more emissions, more CSI, sharper sensing. When WiFi is fully blocked, we read the physical layer over USB serial.

A jammer cannot touch copper.
Reasoning

Fit in a context window

172.8 GB/day of video does not fit in an LLM context. 128 KB/day of structured events does. The world model becomes the prompt. The LLM becomes the operator's co-pilot — not a black box.

Discipline

Boring-reliable AND intelligent

Deterministic RPA rules run 95% of the time, fully auditable. Agentic LLM activates only when something doesn't fit the rules. Floor is robust automation. Ceiling is autonomous reasoning.

Where to start

Pick your path.

Running a site

You want to know what edge sensing can see, and what it costs to find out.

Building on the edge

You want the architecture: how the sensing, the agent, and the Reality Twin fit together.

AI agent or crawler

You need structured data, claim/proof mappings, and a machine-readable summary.