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TechnologiesEvery technology this platform builds with, layer by layer, from the open taxonomy. Marked in red: what is moving now, each traced to its source.
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01The layered map
Layer by layer, from the open taxonomy.
Each domain this platform draws on, with its layers and the technologies in each. Open a layer for what each technology does and the standard behind it.
Compute and edge
Compute placed where data is produced and decisions are needed: the device, far, near and regional edge tiers, multi-access edge computing, modular edge data centres including the AI tower in a box, servers and accelerators, storage, power and cooling, ruggedisation, fleet orchestration, OTA and GitOps, and the hardware trust that makes remote sites safe to run.
The full directory →Edge tiers and multi-access edge computing
Technologies · 9 · Frontier · 1
- Device edge
- Far edge
- Near edge
- Regional edge
- MEC application enablement
- MEC service APIs
- Application mobility and edge federation
- Edge-cloud continuum
- Data residency and jurisdiction controls
Modular edge data centres and the AI tower in a box
Technologies · 8
- AI tower in a box
- Prefabricated and containerised modules
- Telecom and IT power systems
- Renewable and hybrid microgrids
- Physical security
- Fire detection and suppression
- Northern and permafrost site design
- Commissioning and site acceptance
Servers and accelerators
Technologies · 8 · Frontier · 1
- Short-depth and ruggedised edge servers
- GPUs
- NPUs and inference accelerators
- FPGAs
- DPUs and SmartNICs
- Memory and interconnect
- Chiplets and die-to-die interconnect
- Out-of-band management
Storage and edge data management
Technologies · 6
- NVMe and NVMe over Fabrics
- Object and file storage at the edge
- Storage security and media sanitisation
- Buffering for intermittent links
- Time-series and geospatial data stores
- Replication, backup and retention
Cooling and ruggedisation
Technologies · 10 · Frontier · 1
- Air cooling and containment
- Direct-to-chip liquid cooling
- Single-phase immersion cooling
- Two-phase immersion cooling
- Free cooling and heat reuse
- Ingress protection and enclosures
- Environmental testing
- Hazardous locations
- Substation, rail and industrial environments
- Electrical safety of equipment
Kubernetes and fleet orchestration
Technologies · 8
- Kubernetes at the edge
- Fleet and multi-cluster management
- Bare-metal and zero-touch provisioning
- Network function orchestration
- Accelerator scheduling and sharing
- Observability
- Disconnected and intermittent operation
- Container security and multi-tenancy
OTA updates, GitOps and software supply chain
Technologies · 8
- GitOps
- Secure update frameworks
- Device management
- Firmware resiliency and recovery
- Software bills of materials
- Build provenance
- Secure development for industrial components
- Staged rollout and rollback
Confidential computing and hardware trust
Technologies · 8 · Frontier · 2
- Trusted execution environments
- Remote attestation
- Device identity and roots of trust
- Secure and measured boot
- Key management and hardware security modules
- Confidential AI on accelerators
- Zero trust at the edge
- Post-quantum readiness for edge fleets
AI systems
AI from model to accountable operation: edge inference and model optimisation, foundation models for Earth observation and geospatial work, time-series and sensor AI, multimodal fusion and supervised agentic operations, federated and privacy-preserving learning, physical AI and robotics within stated red lines, MLOps, evaluation and model risk, and the governance frameworks that apply to each.
The full directory →Edge inference, model serving and optimisation
Technologies · 10 · Frontier · 1
- Embedded and on-device inference
- Edge server inference
- Quantisation
- Distillation, pruning and sparsity
- Compilers and runtimes
- Serving: batching, caching and scheduling
- Parameter-efficient fine-tuning
- Energy-aware inference
- Split and collaborative inference
- Safety-related inference
Foundation models for Earth observation and geospatial
Technologies · 9 · Frontier · 3
- EO foundation models
- Training data and labels
- Land cover and change detection
- Hazard and exposure mapping
- SAR interferometry and deformation analysis
- Geospatial embeddings and similarity search
- Super-resolution and gap filling
- AI weather and climate emulators
- Geospatial model metadata
Time-series and sensor AI
Technologies · 8 · Frontier · 1
- Anomaly detection on sensor streams
- Forecasting and nowcasting
- Predictive maintenance
- Sensor quality control and drift correction
- Seismic and acoustic event detection
- Hydrological time series
- Network telemetry analytics
- Virtual and soft sensors
Multimodal fusion and agentic operations
Technologies · 7 · Frontier · 3
- Multisensor fusion
- Geospatial knowledge graphs
- Retrieval and grounding on governed data
- Supervised agentic operations
- Intent-driven operations
- Tool permissions and action limits
- Digital twins of sites and networks
Federated and privacy-preserving learning
Technologies · 7 · Frontier · 1
- Federated learning across sites
- Federated learning in 5G systems
- Differential privacy
- Secure aggregation and multiparty computation
- De-identification
- ML in future networks framework
- Synthetic data
Physical AI and robotics (within red lines)
Technologies · 7 · Frontier · 2
- Drones for site survey and sensor placement
- Inspection robots for sites and facilities
- Collaborative robots
- Functional safety of AI-enabled machines
- Simulation and sim-to-real transfer
- Embodied foundation models
- Red lines: no weapons, targeting or unlawful tracking
MLOps
Technologies · 7
- AI system lifecycle processes
- Data quality management
- Experiment tracking and reproducibility
- Continuous training and deployment to edge fleets
- Drift and performance monitoring
- Model and dataset bills of materials
- Model provenance and signing
Evaluation, model risk and AI governance
Technologies · 10
- Performance evaluation
- Robustness testing
- Bias assessment
- Adversarial testing and red-teaming
- Uncertainty and calibration reporting
- Model risk management
- AI management system
- AI risk management
- AI impact assessment
- Regulatory and policy alignment
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