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The approach

Why we can see it coming when a dashboard cannot.

Monitoring reads what is happening now. We work out what happens next, and we use whichever technique gives the most accurate what, when and why for that class of asset — physics-informed models where physics earns its place, statistical models where it does not.

How it works

We pick the method that works on your asset, not the one in our name.

A data-center operator or a battery offtaker is not buying an algorithm. They are buying an accurate answer to when this asset degrades, why, and what it costs to wait — and the confidence that we will say so when we do not know.

Physics-informed, not physics-inspired

Where the physics earns its place — predicting outside the range an asset has run before — we encode the governing equations rather than borrowing their shape.

The distinction, kept exact

A different asset needs a different method

We run the same honest comparison for each asset class rather than assuming one method transfers. Across three classes the answer is not the same every time.

Tested across three asset classes

It tells you when it cannot tell

On stale or incomplete data the system abstains rather than guessing. In testing it rejected about 70% of degraded rows; error on the rows it accepted fell between roughly 1.5× and 10×.

Public NASA reference cells · missing-data robustness study, June 2026

The visibility gap

The event that kills the asset never shows up on the dashboard.

This is a sampling problem before it is an intelligence problem. The physics that degrades power electronics happens orders of magnitude faster than the systems watching it.

What the device does
200,000 switching events per second
A SiC MOSFET switches at 200 kHz. Every one of those transitions deposits heat and stresses the die.
What high-rate sensing captures
20,000 samples per second
Spearix WirelessHART sensing samples at 20 kHz — fast enough to resolve the thermal and vibration signatures degradation actually leaves behind.
What conventional monitoring sees
1 sample per second
A typical SCADA poll. Between two readings, 200,000 switching events have already happened. The precursor is not missed because the software is weak — it was never sampled.

You cannot infer what you never measured. That is why prediction starts with the data path, not the model — and why the Alliance exists.


Where the computing happens

The model has to sit next to the asset.

The visibility gap has a consequence people miss. Sampling fast enough to see degradation produces far more data than any site is going to ship off-premises — so the prediction has to run where the signal is made.

The data will not fit down the pipe

Sampling at kilohertz rates across many channels generates continuous high-volume waveform data. Streaming that to a cloud is not a cost problem, it is a bandwidth impossibility — particularly at the remote and constrained sites where this equipment often lives.

Your raw data never leaves

Because inference happens on-site, the raw operating data stays inside your perimeter. What crosses the boundary is a forecast and a record, not the telemetry itself — which is usually the difference between a security review that takes a week and one that takes a quarter.

It keeps working when the link does not

A site with intermittent or deliberately limited connectivity still gets predictions, because nothing about the forecast depends on reaching a data centre. The link carries results out; it is not in the critical path.

The hardware

NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX

The models run on a compact NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX module — the same class of device that ships with a deployment. It is a mature, industrially available part with a long supply life, not a bespoke board, which matters when the asset it is bolted to has a twenty-year life of its own.

We benchmarked two physics models running concurrently on one module for four hours, then measured what was left over on the GPU.

ORIN NXSENSOR INFORECAST OUT
1.70 ms
p99 inference latency — battery remaining-capacity model.
0.31 ms
p99 inference latency — SiC surrogate model.
4 hours
Continuous concurrent operation, both models, without drift or intervention.
2% GPU
Peak GPU use — inference ran on the CPU, leaving the GPU idle for heavier models and higher-rate signal processing. Not headroom for more assets.

Measured on an NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX during an edge-deployment benchmark, May 2026 (SOW-EDGE-5). These are deployability measurements — latency, endurance and GPU headroom — not accuracy claims. CPU ran near its ceiling at peak, so how many assets one box can carry is a separate validation.


The scorecard

We keep score, and you can read it.

Four independent evaluations across three asset classes. In three of them a simpler model won or the gain traced to something other than the physics terms. We report each as found.

Real commercial cells (MIT/Stanford) Best performer: Plain data-driven model physics did not win IGBT reproduction (NASA PCoE) Best performer: Standard LSTM physics did not win NASA battery ablation Best performer: Temperature-aware formulation physics did not win Simulated SiC devices Best performer: Neural model — the architecture, not the physics physics did not win
Which technique won, by evaluation.Reported as found. On the fourth — simulated SiC devices — we re-ran the comparison at a correct training budget and the physics advantage fell to 0.6%, not statistically significant. The neural model still beat the gradient-boosted baseline on all four measures, in every one of ten runs; that is the architecture, not the physics. The data is physics-based synthetic. Margins stay under diligence.

Where physics belongs

Physics is how we say anything about conditions your asset has not met yet.

Physics is the reason we can say anything about conditions an asset has not yet seen.

It is a capability we apply, not an identity we wear, and we hold that distinction exactly so the message survives the next result whichever way it goes. We do not claim anywhere that physics improves accuracy as a blanket rule — four independent evaluations do not support that.

The proprietary methodology behind the models is not disclosed. Patents-pending strategy in development.

See what it says about your assets.

A read-only assessment proves the forecast on your own data before any hardware conversation. You see the record; you decide what it is worth.

Software-first · no raw data leaves your network · every number traces to a dated report