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Urban

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.

Urban
2 tiers
Edge nodes · one central node
5 modalities
Vision · acoustic · RF · spatial · environmental
1–8B
Sensor-tuned micro-models at the edge
Minutes
Node deployment to operational
The programme

Determinism where it matters, reasoning where it helps

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.

    What it delivers
  • Deployable nodes, operational in minutes
  • Ingestion over the standards the city already speaks
  • A picture that survives the loss of any node or link
  • Confidence computed from evidence, not asserted
  • Privacy-first: Personal Data redacted, retention-limited
The fabric

A mesh of nodes, one centre

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.

7–25 W · 20–67 TOPS

Compact Node

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.

10–40 W · 70–157 TOPS

Standard Node

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.

15–60 W · 200–275 TOPS

Heavy Node

Multi-camera, multi-modal fusion with larger local models — and a local sub-aggregator for a cluster of lighter nodes where bandwidth is tight.

Server-class · one per city

Central Node

Cross-node correlation, the coordinator model, the adjudication engine, long-term stores, and the operator console — the only tier that commits the picture.

Speaks the city's standards ONVIF / RTSP MQTT OGC SensorThings NGSI-LD OPC-UA / Modbus DDS CAP alerts
The intelligence model

Propose. Compose. Commit.

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.

01 · At the edge

Specialists propose

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.

02 · At the centre

The coordinator composes

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.

03 · Deterministic

The engine commits

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.

One platform, many missions

A mission is defined, not built

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.

Critical infrastructure

A standing watch around a utility, substation, water plant, or port — approaches classified and raised before they reach the boundary.

Environmental early warning

Air-quality, gas, flood, and wildfire-smoke sensing fused into early warnings — confidence rising as independent sensors corroborate.

Public-safety awareness

Crowd density, flow, and anomaly sensing at events and transport hubs — with redaction and retention limits applied to personal data by default.

Airspace safety

Unauthorised drones over airports and stadiums, detected by fusing RF, acoustic, and visual modalities — response owned by the responsible authority.

The line that never moves

It raises the alert.
It never takes the action.

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.

Governed for civil deployment
Data sensitivityPublic · Internal · Sensitive · Personal
Privacy & securityGDPR · ISO 27001 / 27701
AI managementISO 42001 · NIST AI RMF
Agent authorityTrust zones Z0–Z3 · deny-by-default
External alertsOASIS CAP · operator-owned
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