# DarkIOC — IoT Operations Center > RF-first ambient intelligence for industrial monitoring. WiFi CSI sensing on commodity ESP32-S3 nodes. Zero cameras by default. Jamming-resistant by design. DarkIOC is part of the DarkNOC family — `darknoc.net`, `darknoc.org`, `darknoc.dev`. Get in touch at **ai.operations@radioqubits.com**. ## The work - **[LatentField](https://darkioc.com/latentfield/)** — the sensing core. WiFi CSI ambient sensing on commodity ESP32-S3 nodes. 56 CSI subcarriers per channel compressed into 8 latent fields (presence, motion, breathing, occupancy, zone activity, anomaly, energy state, alert level). 3-level intelligence: TinyML on the dongle → RuVector embeddings at the gateway → conversational query in the cloud. Jamming-resistant — under WiFi jamming the system gets *sharper*, and falls back to USB serial when WiFi is fully blocked. 1.24W continuous draw per 3-node room. - **[CameraPlus](https://darkioc.com/cameraplus/)** — the proof-of-concept deployment. RF-first ambient monitoring with camera-on-trigger confirmation. **1.59W continuous draw** (vs 23–41W camera-first). **128 KB/day** structured events (vs 172.8 GB/day continuous video). **91.5% lighting-energy reduction** observed on industrial high-bays. **200–314 hours** battery autonomy on 500 Wh (vs 12–22 hours camera-first). Six verticals explored: warehouse/hangar, data center, oil & gas, telco infrastructure, manufacturing, general industrial. Five markets in study: SA · ID · MY · AE · AU. LoRa SX1262 sub-GHz as a second independent delivery channel. - **[MonitorPlus](https://darkioc.com/monitorplus/)** — the managed service. Architectural exploration of monitoring as a managed service, across four deployment configurations: - **Edge — Essential configuration** — 3× ESP32-S3 + gateway, RPA only. Target reliability 99.5%, 15-min ack. - **Edge + Vision — Standard configuration** — + Camera + Jetson + Sentient loop + Conversational interface. Target reliability 99.7%, 10-min ack, 1h response. - **Resilient Edge — Premium configuration** — + LoRa + Jamming detection + 24/7 operations + Agentic-with-approval. Target reliability 99.9%, 5-min ack, 30-min critical, dedicated account contact. - **Partner — White-label configuration** — for telcos, MSPs, SIs co-deploying with their customers. 12 platform modules + 8 last-mile agentic automation streams (contracting, site survey, install, baseline learning, billing, remote testing, compliance). Proven on **EarlyBird**, a continuously running reference deployment in our own lab (not a customer site); the first design-partner pilots onboard in 2026. - **[Simulator](https://darkioc.com/simulator/)** — 7 digital twins: coverage, CRM, demand, growth, incidents, security breach, telemetry. Shared scenario player. Synthetic CSI for training TinyML models before flashing to real dongles. - **[ShowGuru](https://darkioc.com/showguru/)** — demonstration framework. 5 laws of staged conviction. 6-step emotional arc: curiosity → surprise → recognition → discomfort → relief → conviction. 7 scenarios from "30-Second Room Read" to "Board Presentation". "A jammer cannot touch copper." ## Industries Dedicated solution pages apply the LatentField/CameraPlus stack to one environment each — same $4 ESP32-S3 nodes, a vertical model flashed over the air. - **[Data Center](https://darkioc.com/data-center/)** — **flagship vertical.** Per-cage occupancy, intrusion and SOC 2 CC6.4 physical-access evidence, camera-free (always — no lens enters a tenant zone); out-of-band via ESP-NOW + LoRa so monitoring survives a network outage. **Pilot offer:** 30 days, one hall or up to 8 cages, $4,500 fixed fee; success metric agreed up front (≥95% of badge-verified entries captured, <1 false alarm per cage per day) — if the metric is missed, the pilot is free. First three pilots run as design partnerships. See [the offer](https://darkioc.com/data-center/#pilot). - **[Oil & Gas](https://darkioc.com/oil-gas/)** — perimeter, area/worker presence and safety at remote unmanned sites; 200–314h battery, LoRa sub-GHz out-of-band, jamming-resistant. - **[Warehouse / Hangar](https://darkioc.com/warehouse/)** — zone-triggered presence drives high-bay lighting and HVAC for 91.5% lighting-energy reduction, plus after-hours intrusion. - **[Telco Infrastructure](https://darkioc.com/telco/)** — equipment-drift, intrusion and environmental change at remote BTS/BBU/shelter sites; 1.59W per site, out-of-band, truck-roll avoidance. - **[Manufacturing](https://darkioc.com/manufacturing/)** — occupancy-driven lighting/HVAC/camera orchestration and safety-zone intrusion, camera-free, sub-100ms at the edge. - **[General Industrial](https://darkioc.com/industrial/)** — deterministic RPA floor (95%, auditable) with an agentic LLM that activates only on anomaly; a Reality Twin of the site. ## Publications - **"[When Space Talks Back](https://darkioc.com/cameraplus/#paper)"** (2026) — honest, sourced paper on RF-first ambient monitoring vs camera-first edge AI. Thesis: cameras are an expensive default for a wide class of industrial monitoring workloads; WiFi CSI + selective vision + conversational interface is materially better in power, bandwidth, privacy, and resilience. ## Technology - WiFi CSI sensing on commodity ESP32-S3 boards (no SDR, no proprietary radio) - ESP-NOW peer-to-peer protocol between dongle and gateway (sub-10ms, no AP dependency) - TinyML int8-quantised inference at the edge (<512 KB flash, <100ms latency) - Dynamic model flashing over ESP-NOW (same hardware, swap the vertical) - RuVector embedded vector store at the gateway (per-tenant isolation, GDPR-aligned deletion) - CSI precursors for fire, flood, intrusion (RF signature precedes visual signature) - Anticipation map: low-resolution forecast of next 5–60 seconds based on historical pattern matching - DOIL intent-first language ([darknoc.dev](https://darknoc.dev)) compiles to TMF API agents *and* ESP32 firmware — one source, two surfaces ## Ecosystem - [darknoc.net](https://darknoc.net) — public showroom + research layer - [darknoc.org](https://darknoc.org) — open registry of AI agents, 42 toolboxes, 132 TMF APIs · discussion surface - [darknoc.dev](https://darknoc.dev) — local-first DOIL toolkit, blog, docs ## Getting in touch Best way to reach us: **ai.operations@radioqubits.com**. The wider conversation lives on [darknoc.org](https://darknoc.org). ## Files canonical for agents - [/sitemap.xml](https://darkioc.com/sitemap.xml) — all public pages - [/robots.txt](https://darkioc.com/robots.txt) — crawl policy (LLM bots explicitly allowed) - [/assets/data/products.json](https://darkioc.com/assets/data/products.json) — source-of-truth product catalog - [/agents/](https://darkioc.com/agents/) — full schema.org graph + claim/proof FAQ If a fact on a human-readable page disagrees with the JSON-LD graph at `/agents/`, the JSON-LD wins.