Pietarien · tactical power
Power distribution — in the field, in vehicles, at critical sites — is passive. Breakers trip without knowing why. Operators parallel generators by trial and error. We built the intelligence layer that fixes this — without requiring you to replace a single panel.
Nine mechanisms that turn commodity power hardware into a safe, parallelable, emission-aware microgrid. Built for tactical programmes — equally at home in disaster response, remote industrial sites, and critical-infrastructure microgrids.
Breakers trip without knowing why. Phase is unbalanced. Sources are paralleled by trial and error, because the panels are dumb. Every status query is a transmission, and every generator run is a heat and acoustic signature. The same is true of a field hospital, a relief convoy, or a remote substation as it is of a forward base.
The hardware is commodity — breakers, panels, vehicles, vests. What was missing is a layer that knows the topology, refuses unsafe configurations, enforces the emission plan, and reports honestly. Nothing here requires replacing the fleet — or the installed base.
150 generated → 141 killed → 9 survived the physics, prior-art, and patent fences. We don't ask you to trust our ideas. We show you the ones that survived trying to die.
This portfolio was produced by our invention engine — Pieta — and then run through three adversarial fences. Each surviving concept carries its derivation, its failure modes, its test protocol and its prior-art position. The hardware is the body. The engine is the nervous system.
The engine's speed is a feature, not a caveat: the full run took two weeks. The fences did the maturation.
Commodity hardware stays. The layer runs across all of it.
Diagram 1 — The layer spans vest, vehicle, generators and panel. Each mechanism in the catalogue addresses one failure on this spine. Click a failure below to see which one answers it.
The catalogue in one interaction — no secrets, just the shape of the answers.
Failure:
Four of the nine mechanisms shown. The other five — the physical fail-safe, the topology ledger, the phase gate, the vehicle node and the battery chain — are in the full dossier.
Each is a defined mechanism with a failure mode it exists to prevent. What is published here is the problem and the claim; the derivation, the test data and the prior-art position are what the dossier contains.
Guarantees exactly one neutral-to-ground bond per island when generators are paralleled, which is what prevents circulating currents and shock hazard.
Fingerprints a load's current signature and drops the trip curve locally, so a load in the wrong branch is caught before it causes an upstream fault.
Emission-discipline scheduling: telemetry is stored and non-critical charging pauses during radio silence, so the grid stops advertising its position.
Brings monitoring and load shedding to legacy breaker-only panels as a self-powered kit, without replacing the installed base.
Physical enforcement: a latch that opens on an arc fault and cannot be reclosed by software. A hardware-only fail-safe for a faulted branch.
Two AC sources are permitted to tie only when their phase-order parity matches, which is the check that prevents out-of-phase paralleling.
Topology learning that remembers falsified configurations, so the panel will not close into a class of arrangement that has already failed.
"Always start full": cross-hub state-of-charge federation and automated top-off, so power is managed as a chain rather than by swapping batteries by hand.
The middle tier between vest and base — export arbitration, silent watch, and status the vehicle can actually speak.
No hardware replaced. Everything gained.
Diagram 2 — What changes is not the hardware. It is whether the hardware is allowed to be wrong, quietly, without anyone knowing.
The mechanisms above were generated by our own invention engine and then put through adversarial review: each concept carries its derivation, its failure modes, its test plan and its prior-art position. What is on this page is the catalogue; the physics is in the vault.
Tier 1
Free
Mechanism overviews, the problem each one solves, and the integration surface. Enough to judge whether the layer fits your programme.
Tier 2
Under NDA
The derivation, the test protocols, the prior-art landscape and the patent packages, mechanism by mechanism.
Tier 3
$15,000–$30,000 · 4 weeks
We take one mechanism onto your hardware: interface definition, bench validation, and a written integration plan your engineers can build against.
Tell us which mechanism is relevant and whether you need an NDA before we proceed. We reply to qualified enquiries within two working days.