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Every technology this platform builds with, layer by layer, from the open taxonomy. Marked in red: what is moving now, each traced to its source.

Areas · 5 Technologies · 130 Industries · 8

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.

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.

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

02Across the network

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03On this site

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