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Lumen

The grid that arrives first

Status
Flight hardware — first units delivered
Overview

Self-deploying nodes that unfold into a power, timing and mesh-comms network within hours of touchdown.

Autonomy is useless without watts and bandwidth. Each Lumen node unfolds a solar array, buries a battery below the thermal swing and holds the whole site on one clock, so every machine agrees on when things happened.

Capabilities
  • 01Autonomous solar deployment
  • 02Buried thermal-stable storage
  • 03Self-healing comms mesh
  • 04Site-wide time synchronisation
01

Survives the night

Buried cells stay inside their temperature window without heaters, which is where most surface hardware quietly dies.

02

Grows with the site

Nodes negotiate roles automatically. Add a unit and the mesh re-routes, re-balances and re-syncs without an operator.

03

One clock

Shared timing is what lets separate machines fuse observations into evidence rather than into contradictions.

In the field
A deployed array feeding the site bus, node 02.
A deployed array feeding the site bus, node 02.
Four nodes hold a worksite this size on one clock.
Four nodes hold a worksite this size on one clock.
Specifications

Lumen

Figures are current qualification values and are updated as campaigns close.

Output per node
2.4 kW peak
Deployment
3 h, unattended
Mesh range
12 km node to node
Timing
±80 ns site-wide
Design life
10 years
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