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Early warning for
Himalayan glacial hazards.
Sovereign by construction.

We design and build the full stack — the sensor hardware, the firmware that runs on it, and the Aether platform that reports and routes alerts. Built for the Nepal–India–China hazard space: near-field seismic detection, transboundary alerting in <60 seconds.

<60s
alert routing
Pheme transboundary
8–10 km
geolocation
near-field triangulation
100%
sovereignty
no raw telemetry
// the stack

We build the whole thing.

// hardware

Designed, not assembled

  • STM32WL55JC + LoRa radio on one die
  • ADXL355 MEMS accelerometer (wake-on-interrupt)
  • BGT60TR13C mmWave radar for surface sensing
  • 4-layer PCB, Gerbers ready for fabrication
// firmware

The OS we wrote

  • Tier-0/Tier-1 cascade: wake on seismic, classify in 5s
  • LoRa mesh (900 MHz, 5-15 km spacing)
  • Deep sleep <1 µA, ~18 months battery
  • MQTT over TLS to Aether backend
// platform

Aether, our reporting platform

  • Ingest node telemetry via MQTT
  • Route alerts via Pheme (webhook/SMS/email)
  • Manage the mesh via Meridian
  • Full audit trail: who notified, when, action
// validation

The method, proven on real events.

We validated the detection and geolocation method on two well-documented collapses with open data. The same method is what we deploy in the Himalaya.

EventSNRErrorStatus
Bondo 2017 (32km)958.4 km✅ DETECTED
Blatten 2025 (11km)3.310.0 km✅ DETECTED
// limitations
⚠ 8–10 km geolocation NOT sufficient for valley routing
⚠ Precursor = research only, NOT predictive
⚠ HKH data access gated (working with ICIMOD)

Deploy in the Himalaya.

Ready to deploy valley clusters across Nepal and India. 5 nodes + 1 gateway per valley. Full stack — hardware, firmware, and Aether platform.

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[email protected] · AS207819