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Custom sensor and chip products

We work with you to design a custom sensor module and the AI chip that runs on it.

Ultra-low-power. Many sensors at once. Fully offline. Built for machines where power is scarce, a delay is dangerous, or there is no network. We start with your problem, prove it on a prototype, then design the chip.

See how it works Start a project

01Tell us the problemThe machine, and the decision it has to make.
02Choose the sensorsLook through what we can connect to the chip.
03Build a prototypeA working board on your machine, collecting real data.
04Make the custom chipWe design it. A factory builds it at 100,000 units or more.

01 / The problem

Start with the machine and the decision.

You tell us what the machine is, what it has to decide, and which sensors it already has. We agree what the chip should send back: an alert, a direction, or a short report. This first paid piece of work takes a few weeks.

A custom AI chip board with a camera and sensor array — Sensors on the machineChip decidesA short answer leaves

What we aim for when we design the chip.

Power

The chip uses very little power, from a few milliwatts up to a few hundred. It can run on a small battery.

What it sends

A short result: an alert, a direction, or a signed report. Camera footage and microphone audio stay on the machine.

How many

We first prove the design on a prototype board. When you need 100,000 units or more, we turn that design into a custom chip.

What it unlocks

Work that only exists if the answer is computed on the machine.

Power is scarce, a delay is dangerous, or there is no network. That is the buying reason. Open an industry for the outcome.

Attritable reconnaissance dronesEvent cameras, radio, microphones

The airframe finds, classifies, and reports a track. Footage never leaves the aircraft. A lost airframe is a lost chip, not a leaked mission.

GPS-denied micro-dronesCameras, IMU, air data

Hold a course and a decision when the satellite fix is gone. Navigation runs on the airframe, on a battery the size of the vehicle.

Counter-drone watchMicrophone arrays, passive RF

Hear and radio-locate another aircraft, then send a bearing. The watch runs on a mast, a node, or a drone of your own, with no link home.

Inspection dronesThermal, cameras, vibration

A turbine blade, a line insulator, a flare stack. The aircraft flags the defect in the air and sends the finding. The hours of video stay on the airframe.

Crop-scout dronesMultispectral cameras, plant signals

A field with no tower and a battery that has to last the survey. Health of the crop is computed over the rows, not after a download.

Medical and wearablesBio-impedance, EEG, ECG

Catch a dangerous heart rhythm on the device in under a millisecond. Patient data stays on the wearable. No round trip to a hospital cloud.

Aerospace and defenceCameras, radar, radio

Navigate and decide when GPS is gone, on a power budget measured in microwatts. The platform keeps flying and keeps quiet.

AutomotiveCabin radar, ultrasonic, vibration

Crash prediction and driver-fatigue watch that fire on the vehicle, even with no network. Milliseconds matter more than a data plan.

Industrial automationMicro-vibration, heat, sound

Predict a failure on isolated factory equipment the moment the sound changes. The line does not wait on a server.

AgricultureSoil chemistry, plant signals

Multi-year tags on remote farmland. Crop health is computed in the field, for years, on the energy you can harvest there.

Robotics and prostheticsForce, neuromuscular signals

A limb or a gripper that adjusts as it is touched. The motor loop runs on the device so it feels immediate.

Environmental safetySeismic tremor, gas

Wildfire and gas-leak sensors that run for years in a forest, on harvested energy, and raise the alarm from the tree line.

Maritime and shippingHull stress, underwater sound

Strain and cavitation watched on the hull in deep water. The ship reports a condition. It does not buy a satellite pipe for raw sensor data.

Mining and undergroundToxic gas, rock micro-fractures

A collapse or a gas spike is decided in the shaft, where radios already fail. The warning is local and instant.

Consumer electronicsVoice, biometrics, gesture

Always-on hearables and wearables that last weeks on one charge because the model lives next to the microphones.

Smart buildingsSound, occupancy, air quality

Occupancy and leak watch that never uploads a room recording. The building gets the event. The people keep the privacy.

Energy and utilitiesArcing, pressure waves

A fault on a remote line or a pipeline is isolated on the asset. The grid acts before a truck rolls.

InfrastructureConcrete strain, crack acoustics

Bridges and tunnels watched for decades on a battery. The span sends an integrity result, year after year.

Logistics and cold chainTemperature, tilt, shock

A coin-cell tag inside a metal container still knows if the cargo moved, warmed, or took a hit. No cellular. No opening the box.

Disaster responseHeat, vitals, rubble sound

Life detection in a blackout. The sensor in the rubble decides locally and tells the team someone is there.

SpaceRadiation, heat, payload strain

Diagnostics computed on the craft. Deep space does not wait for a long radio delay to decide if the payload is healthy.

Security and defenceAcoustic threat, perimeter

A breach is flagged on the node. Video stays off the wire until a human asks for it.

Sports scienceHigh-G motion, muscle EMG

Injury-prevention sensors in the kit. The athlete gets a warning in the moment, from the equipment, not from a later upload.

Livestock and veterinaryTemperature, movement

Ear-tag health across a pasture with no cellular. The animal's own tag decides if something is wrong and reports that.

Retail and asset trackingDense RF and RFID

Shelf and yard inventory on tags that run on harvested energy. Stock is counted where it sits.

Put the compute on the silicon that sees the physical world. You cut bandwidth bills, dropouts, and the power cost of shipping raw sensor data off the machine.

02 / Sensors

What we can connect to the chip

Browse the sensors we design for. Best fit works with the chip as it is. Some sensors need extra electronics in front. A few are too heavy as raw data, so we take a short summary instead.

10 in this view

These sensors work well with the chip as it is.

Event / neuromorphic camera

A camera that only reports what changed in the picture. Low power, and a good match for this chip.

VisionWorks directly

Stereo event pair

Two event cameras together, so the chip can estimate distance as well as motion.

VisionWorks directly

LWIR / uncooled thermal imager

A heat camera. Finds people, engines, and vehicles by temperature.

ThermalNeeds extra electronics

Thermal array / thermopile grid

A cheap heat grid that spots hot areas without a full camera.

ThermalWorks directly

Microphone array

Several microphones together. Finds the direction of a sound: a drone, a vehicle, a shot.

AcousticWorks directly

Large acoustic array (32–80+)

A large microphone array for long watches. Sound can wake the rest of the board.

AcousticWorks directly

IMU (accel + gyro)

Motion sensor for flight, walking, and context for every other sensor.

InertialWorks directly

Passive RF / SDR front-end

A radio listener. Finds transmitters, drone controllers, and jammers.

RFWorks directly

Multi-channel RF / DoA array

Several radio channels together, so the chip can tell which direction a signal came from.

RFWorks directly

Command / telemetry packets

Incoming commands and telemetry. The chip checks where they came from.

NetworkWorks directly

03 and 04 / Build

We prove it on a board, then we make the chip.

We agree time and cost with you before each step starts.

03
Build a prototype
We put a working board on your actual machine. It records the sensor data and runs a model that already fits the power and weight you have. This is how we learn what the custom chip should do.
This step takes months.
04
Make the custom chip
We lock the sensor list and how data moves through the chip. We design the custom chip. A chip factory manufactures it when you need 100,000 units or more.
We design the chip. The factory builds it.