The city, sensed. Lamassu is our distributed urban-sensing platform — sensor-tuned micro-models on deployable edge nodes, turning a city's existing feeds into operator-reviewable intelligence. Civilian by design.
Lamassu drops self-contained edge nodes into a neighbourhood, a campus, or a whole city. Each node connects to the sensor feeds it finds locally — cameras, acoustic arrays, air-quality networks, building systems — runs sensor-specialist micro-models on what it sees, and shares observations with its neighbours over a self-healing mesh. One central node correlates the whole fabric and commits the picture an operator acts on.
A node is productive within minutes of mounting: it self-provisions with a cryptographic identity, discovers local feeds over the standards they already speak, and keeps sensing on its own when the network fails — reconciling when the link returns.
Deliberately two tiers — an urban deployment doesn't need a forward-fusion hierarchy. Edge nodes are mesh peers to their neighbours and spokes to a single central node sized for the city.
A pole- or wall-mounted single-modality pod — one or two streams, minimal local inference, a full mesh peer. Runs on mains, PoE, or battery with solar.
A multi-sensor pod or cabinet running concurrent perception and small on-board models — the workhorse of the fleet, mesh peer and spoke at once.
Multi-camera, multi-modal fusion with larger local models — and a local sub-aggregator for a cluster of lighter nodes where bandwidth is tight.
Cross-node correlation, the coordinator model, the adjudication engine, long-term stores, and the operator console — the only tier that commits the picture.
Many small experts instead of one large model — a bet that specialisation plus composition beats generalisation for urban sensing. And a three-step transition no model may short-circuit.
One micro-model per modality — vision, acoustic, RF, spatial, environmental — each reading only its own telemetry and emitting cited, typed findings. On out-of-distribution input it abstains rather than guessing.
A single larger reasoning model plans the run, dispatches work to specialists across nodes, and composes their findings across modalities into a candidate event with its provenance. It never assigns the verdict.
Deterministic, code-enforced logic — not any model — converts proposals into the committed, operator-facing indicator under bound policy. Reproducible, auditable, and resolvable to signed provenance through a full trace tree.
The same fabric hosts many missions at once, each an isolated Tangram execution zone under its own policies and sensitivity ceiling. Adding one is a configuration act under governance — not a re-architecture.
A standing watch around a utility, substation, water plant, or port — approaches classified and raised before they reach the boundary.
Air-quality, gas, flood, and wildfire-smoke sensing fused into early warnings — confidence rising as independent sensors corroborate.
Crowd density, flow, and anomaly sensing at events and transport hubs — with redaction and retention limits applied to personal data by default.
Unauthorised drones over airports and stadiums, detected by fusing RF, acoustic, and visual modalities — response owned by the responsible authority.
Lamassu is a civilian platform, without exception. The most consequential thing an agent may do unaided is raise an alert; every effect that reaches the outside world — even steering a camera — is gated behind a deny-by-default policy engine, an earned trust zone, and an accountable human decision. The policy layer of every zone is human: systems do not make decisions for action, because they cannot be responsible for them.
Book a walkthrough and see a node go from the crate to an operational mesh peer in minutes — on your own feeds.