🧠 We make your world smarter

🔍 What is iot4.ai?

iot4.ai is the core infrastructure layer for real-time intelligence. We enable calibrated, normalized, low-latency feedback loops between devices, data, control systems, and cloud AI — powering everything from industrial automation to smart infrastructure.

🚨 Why it matters

Modern systems demand more than data collection. They require intelligence — in place, on time, and in sync.

• Unified time series, process, control, and maintenance data
• Designed for real-world deployment: smart cities, smart homes, manufacturing, and energy
• Digital twins architected into the core — not retrofitted

🧩 Engineered from day zero

• True real-time awareness and action
• AI-native architecture with deterministic control paths
• Proactive fault prevention and process optimization
• Built-in signal fusion and calibration at the edge

No patches. No bolt-ons. Just purpose-built systems that think in time.

📡 Architecture

[Sensor / PLC / RTU]
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[iot4.ai Node: normalization, sync, control logic]
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[Cloud AI / Digital Twin]
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[Operator or Automated System]
    

Our nodes bridge the edge and cloud with time-aligned, structured, actionable data — enabling safe, intelligent autonomy and operational visibility across sectors.

🌍 Applications

• Smart cities & connected infrastructure
• Smart homes & residential control systems
• Petrochemical & industrial process control
• Discrete & continuous manufacturing
• Digital twins at any scale

👷 Made for system integrators

• Written in Rust, C, and safe real-time primitives
• Supports gRPC, OPC UA, MQTT, CAN, and industrial buses
• Native hooks for ONNX, PyTorch, TensorFlow Lite
• Zero-trust ready with full observability and time sync
• No black boxes, no vendor lock-in

💡 Smarter systems, smarter cities

Your environment. Your intelligence. Your loop.

iot4.ai provides the backbone for proactive, intelligent, AI-led infrastructure — where every signal counts.

📊 Comparison: iot4.ai vs. AWS Greengrass vs. Azure IoT Edge

Why engineers choose iot4.ai when timing, control, and simplicity matter most:

| Feature                             | iot4.ai                     | AWS Greengrass         | Azure IoT Edge         |
|-------------------------------------|-----------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
| 🧠 Built-in digital twin support    | ✅ Native, real-time        | ❌ Requires layering   | ❌ Add-on via Azure DT |
| ⚡ Feedback loop latency            | 🔽 Microseconds             | ⏱️ 10s–100s ms         | ⏱️ 10s–100s ms         |
| 🧩 Architecture                     | From-scratch, zero trust    | Cloud-first            | Cloud-first            |
| 🔌 Protocol support                 | gRPC, OPC UA, MQTT, CAN     | MQTT, HTTP             | MQTT, AMQP             |
| 📦 Deployment footprint             | <10MB binary / container    | 100s MB runtime        | ~300MB runtime         |
| 🔒 Air-gapped operation             | ✅ Fully supported          | ❌ Limited             | ⚠️ Partial             |
| 🧪 Time-series alignment            | ✅ Deterministic            | ❌ Manual              | ❌ Manual              |
| 🛠️ Maintenance record integration   | ✅ Normalized at edge       | ❌ External system     | ❌ External system     |
| 🧰 Codebase                         | Rust + C                    | Java + Node + Python   | .NET + C#              |
| 🛑 Cloud dependency                 | Optional                    | Required for full use  | Required for full use  |
| 📜 Licensing                        | Open integration, no lock-in| AWS terms              | Azure terms            |
    

🧬 Legacy is our edge

At iot4.ai, we don’t fear legacy — we integrate with it, accelerate it, and make it smarter.

• ⚙️ Full edge citizenship: native support for legacy protocols like BACnet, Modbus, and CAN
• 📦 Drop-in compatibility with existing SCADA and process control systems
• 🧠 Powered by SwiftBoot — a hardened microkernel lineage purpose-built for low-latency intervention
• 🍿 “Popcorn at the edge”: deploy entire intelligent systems as unified, bootable objects
• 💻 No forklift upgrades required — modern AI and legacy I/O coexist, cleanly and deterministically

Whether you're modernizing a refinery, upgrading a smart campus, or extending the life of critical infrastructure — we’re the bridge. Legacy isn’t a burden. It’s our edge.

🍿 Popcorn™ is perfect for OTA fleet upgrades

Tiny, mighty, and immutable — Popcorn™ bundles your runtime, model, and policy into a single, signed image. No partial updates. No dependency hell. Just plug, boot, and go.

| Feature                                        | Popcorn™ OTA                           | Legacy OTA Upgrade              |
|------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------|---------------------------------|
| 🔒 Immutable system image                      | ✅ Single bootable object              | ❌ Multi-part updates           |
| 🧠 Includes model, logic, config               | ✅ Unified                             | ❌ Fragments + shell scripts    |
| 📦 Containerized at the metal                  | ✅ Boot-level OCI image                | ❌ Requires OS + runtime stack  |
| 🔐 Signed & verified at boot                   | ✅ ECDSA verified                      | ⚠️ Often unsigned or SHA1 only  |
| 🏭 Sovereign private keys at factory           | ✅ Per-unit cryptographic identity     | ❌ Shared secrets or none       |
| 🚫 Zero trust, from first line of code         | ✅ No implicit trust anywhere          | ⚠️ Patch-based trust models     |
| 🧬 Dynamic node registration (anti-clone)      | ✅ Anti-impersonation baked-in         | ❌ Easy to spoof                |
| 🤖 Perfect for AI micro-models at the edge     | ✅ Industrial, BLE mesh, 5G & fog ready| ❌ Too heavy or fragile         |
| ⏱️ Upgrade time                                | 🔽 Seconds                             | ⏱️ Minutes (risk of failure)    |
| 🧯 Rollback safety                             | ✅ Atomic boot fallback                | ❌ Manual rescue                |
| 🌐 Fleet scale                                 | ✅ CDN + verifiable rollout            | ⚠️ Scripted push or MDM needed  |
  

With Popcorn™, every node is born secure, verifiable, and tamper-resistant — and every upgrade is a reboot away. No drift. No surprises.

🔐 Secure, portable, policy-driven builds

IoT for AI leverages SwiftBoot and Popcorn(tm), dependencies are managed exactly where they belong: in the pipeline. Not the target, not the user’s system, and never via ad hoc scripts or runtime surprises.

• 📦 All dependencies resolved and locked inside CI/CD, not on production hosts
• 🛡️ Supply chain attestation built-in — each build is traceable, auditable, and signed
• 🧩 Fully reproducible: every config, every file, every patch tracked and declared
• 🚫 No leaking credentials, secrets, or keys — host remains clean and unprivileged
• ⛔ No broken OTA patch states or "works on my machine" syndrome
• ✅ Builds are atomic, verifiable, and policy-compliant before they ever reach your runtime

Whether you're deploying a hardened kernel, a microservice chain, or a full containerized runtime, IoT for AI ensures that the entire system is locked, labeled, and immutable before it boots.

| Topic                          | SwiftBoot                      | Traditional Toolchains         |
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
| 📦 Dependency Management       | CI/CD controlled               | Host-resolved or scripted      |
| 🧪 Config + Patch Hygiene      | Verified at build              | Applied at runtime             |
| 🔐 Supply Chain Attestation    | ✅ SBOM + Sigstore ready       | ❌ None or external            |
| 🚫 OTA Patch Hell              | Eliminated via full image      | Partial updates, drift risk    |
| 📋 Policy Compliance           | Enforced pre-deploy            | Best-effort or manual          |
| 🧯 Rollback + Recovery         | Built into boot flow           | Manual or break/fix            |
| 🔍 Audit + Reproducibility     | Guaranteed via `.swiftboot`    | ❌ Fragile and host-dependent  |
  

IoT for AI turns your pipeline into your release gate, your compliance tool, and your last line of defense. The host? It just boots.