Sovereign edge AI fabric · v0.1
Sovereign edge AI,
in motion.
The runtime, network, and compute fabric for AI at the edge — private, secure, by design. From a Raspberry Pi to a Jetson cluster to an air-gapped industrial gateway. The infrastructure layer powering the Ipnops family.
Built for builders shipping edge AI on real hardware.
edge nodes per cluster · KubeEdge
100k+
Wasm cold start · 100× containers
1-5 ms
Jetson Orin Nano Super · $249
67 TOPS
operation supported
air-gapped
01 · The shift
AI is leaving the cloud.
In 2026, AI inference doesn’t live in a hyperscaler’s datacentre by default anymore. It lives on a Jetson Orin Nano Super in a substation. On a Pi 5 with a Hailo-10H AI HAT+ 2 on a streetlight. On an ESP32-P4 in a sensor pod. On an air-gapped gateway in a defence contractor’s vault. Where the data is, where the privacy demands it, where the latency requires it.
Furcate is the substrate that makes that shift operable — runtimes, networking, fleet orchestration, hardware abstraction across consumer to industrial silicon. Sovereign, private, secure by design.
02 · Connect every layer
Not “an SDK.”
A complete edge stack.
Furcate composes the best open-source projects in edge AI into one coherent fabric — from the silicon up through the runtime, the network, the fleet orchestrator, and into the Ipnops intelligence platforms (or yours).
Edge silicon
NVIDIA Jetson family
Orin Nano Super · 67 TOPS · $249
Hailo-10H + Pi 5
40 TOPS INT4 · 2.5W · LLMs at 10 tok/s
Coral M.2 + USB
4 TOPS · 2W · TFLite-quantised
ESP32-P4 + Arduino + RP2350
TFLM · TinyML on microcontrollers
Runtimes & orchestration
TensorRT Edge-LLM · LiteRT · ONNX RT
FP8 · NVFP4 · INT4 quantization
KubeEdge · OpenYurt · K3s · Akri
100k nodes · 1M pods (KubeEdge benchmark)
WasmEdge · Wasmtime · WASI 0.3
1-5 ms cold start · 100× containers
Dapr · EdgeX Foundry · Eclipse Hono
Distributed runtime + protocol abstraction
Network, security, federated ML
Matter · Thread · LoRaWAN · private 5G + TSN
Mesh + sub-GHz + deterministic wireless
TPM 2.0 · TEE · attested boot
Hardware root of trust for every device
Sovereign by design
GDPR · HIPAA · FIPS · NIST · CMMC compliant
NVIDIA FLARE + Flower + OpenFL
Federated learning at production scale
Connect into Ipnops
Ipnops Coast
Coastal intelligence (cyan)
Ipnops Grid
Energy + physical systems (amber)
Ipnops Industry
Industrial automation (orange)
Bring your own platform
REST · gRPC · MQTT · OPC UA — protocol-agnostic
03 · The fabric
Every layer, composed.
Silicon at the bottom. Runtimes that turn weights into inference. An orchestrator that ships them safely to a fleet. A mesh that lets devices speak — to each other, to a sovereign control plane, to the customer’s perimeter and no further. Applications and Ipnops intelligence platforms at the top. Every layer composed of cited open-source projects; every interface explicit.
04 · Predict
Ask the fleet.
Interact with the fleet through natural language. The platform responds with real telemetry, real rollout simulations, and the lineage of every decision the agent makes — all without the data leaving your trust boundary.
You
live demo · queries cycle automatically · open the platform for the full experience
05 · Simulate & act
Test the rollout, before you ship it.
Discrete-event simulation for fleet operations — OTA campaigns, federated-learning rounds, model canaries, runtime swaps, mesh topology changes. The same simulator runs as the dispatch guard in production: every change is rehearsed before it ships to a single live device.
Scenarios
demo-fleet · Baseline OTA
● RolloutSim
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06 · For whom
Built for the people who run the substrate.
Furcate is the runtime, network, and compute fabric. Coast / Grid / Industry sit on top of it. So do plenty of other intelligence platforms — Furcate is BYO if you bring your own.
Builders
Developers shipping edge AI on real hardware. Furcate SDK, REST + gRPC + MQTT APIs, Wasmtime / WasmEdge runtime, examples for Pi / Jetson / ESP32 / Coral / Hailo. From prototype to first thousand devices.
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Fleets at scale
Operations teams running thousands of devices in production. KubeEdge-class orchestration (100k+ nodes / 1M+ pods), OTA campaigns with canary + blue-green, fleet-wide observability, federated learning rounds.
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OEMs & integrators
Product makers embedding Furcate into their hardware. Reference designs for Jetson / Pi / Hailo / Coral / ESP32. Branded firmware images. OTA infrastructure under your control. Long-term support contracts.
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Research & academia
Scientific edge-AI work — federated learning across sensor networks, on-device fine-tuning, reproducible training-to-deployment pipelines. NVIDIA FLARE + Flower + ExecuTorch in one runtime. Open by default.
Explore for research →
Sovereign deployments
Air-gapped, regulated, sovereign environments — defence, aerospace, pharma, critical infrastructure. GDPR / HIPAA / FIPS / NIST / CMMC. TPM 2.0 attested boot. Customer data never leaves the trust boundary.
Explore for sovereign →
Closing
From someone else’s cloud,
to your hardware, your network, your terms.
As AI inference moves to the edge — onto the Jetsons in substations, the Pis on streetlights, the ESP32s in sensor pods, the air-gapped gateways in vaults — the world needs a substrate that runs intelligence at the customer’s perimeter, in the customer’s network, under the customer’s key, with the lineage of every model swap, every federated round, every dispatch decision auditable end-to-end.
Furcate is that substrate.