Defense
Autonomy Nodes
The integrative platform for minimally manned or unmanned missions.
The need
Fewer people on site, more equipment to run
Minimally manned or unmanned missions depend on equipment from many makers: power, water, fuel, communications, sensors and vehicles. Each arrives with its own controls and its own way of connecting. Bringing it together takes specialist integration work, and until that work is done, people have to stay close to the equipment.
What Autonomy Nodes are
Hardware with software and AI built in
An Autonomy Node is hardware that combines networking, I/O and compute. Its software enables the integration of sensors, platforms and payloads, and connects them to the Silent Returns backbone. Nodes are designed to bring equipment from different makers into one system quickly, without a custom project for each.
Hardware
Software and AI
What they enable
From monitoring to intervention
Integrate
Bring new equipment into the system quickly, whoever made it.
Monitor
See the state of equipment and sites from somewhere else.
Intervene
Go beyond monitoring and interact with the environment, through the payloads and platforms the nodes connect.
Add autonomy
Move from minimally manned toward unmanned, one step at a time.
Status and next step
In development, and open to partners
Autonomy Nodes are in development. We want to hear from defense and technology partners who build sensors, payloads, platforms or networks, and who want them to work together in the field.
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