Foundry/Atlas context and operator intent become a CASK deployment order with leases for each edge node.
Live DDIL edge demo / Foundry + CASK + local mesh
DarkMesh
Altiair deploys a decentralized sensor mesh, fuses weak field evidence into one human-reviewed cue, survives node loss, and syncs the mission record back to Foundry.
Scenario
Find the useful cue without depending on one command node.
A drone-class event appears in a contested training area. One node has RFID and Wi-Fi proximity context, one has Hawkeye/vision, one has microphone context, and Foundry provides governed mission intelligence. DarkMesh turns those fragments into a policy-gated controller-zone cue for human review.
Camera, microphone, RFID/provider-style proximity, and node health arrive as compact typed records instead of raw stream dependency.
If the active coordinator drops, the replicated ledger and gossip state let a surviving node keep the mission picture alive.
When a gateway is available, the evidence, decisions, policy gates, and coordinator terms reconcile back to Foundry.
Live mission pass
Mission directive to edge coordination.
Detecting source
Waiting for CASK state
Friendly Node
Degraded Node
Mesh Link
Camera FOV
RF Bearing
Fused Detection
Objective Area
Track Trail
Cue chain
Your next action
-Evidence summary
-Live at the bench
Running right now on a Jetson Nano, three Raspberry Pis, and an iPad chest computer.
The mesh isn't a slide. A four-node fleet — Jetson Orin Nano altiair-orin, Raspberry Pi 5 altiair-hub, and two Raspberry Pi 4B sensor peers altiair-node-a / altiair-node-b — sits at the team bench, joined to the local Altiair-LAN over Wi-Fi, running the same node API, Ollama-served Gemma 4 e2b inference, and CASK evidence-bundle pipeline. An iPad on a chest harness mirrors the operator console as a wearable EagleEye-style display. Foundry / CASK sync queues locally until any gateway gets an uplink. Pull power from any one node and the surviving peers keep the mission picture.
- altiair-orin Jetson Orin Nano · LAN host · USB mic · accelerated inference · secondary Foundry gateway
- altiair-hub Pi 5 · operator display · USB camera · local queue · preferred Foundry / CASK gateway
- altiair-node-a / altiair-node-b Pi 4B · edge sensors · RFID + provider-style location · replicated ledger
- iPad chest computer Wearable operator console · live mesh + cue overlay · EagleEye-style readout
- Local LAN mesh on Wi-Fi Altiair-LAN hosted on-site · no cloud, no internet path required
- gemma4:e2b on-device Ollama-served · ~50–60°C under sustained inference with active cooling
- Survivable Replicated ledger, gossip, and Raft-style coordinator across all four nodes
Working code path
The website walks through the running system.
The page reads the same node API that the Pi and Jetson nodes expose. During the live pass it shows each code path, endpoint poll, ledger update, coordinator term, local model result, node-dropout state, and Foundry writeback boundary as the mission advances.
execution feed
DarkMesh runtime
System architecture
Robust, safe, secure edge coordination.
Foundry and CASK shape the mission data. DarkMesh keeps the local runtime useful when the uplink or one node fails, while policy gates, signed records, encrypted payloads, and memory-safe durable components keep the demo on a production path.
Command / Foundry
Operator website
Foundry Atlas / OSDK
CASK ontology
Edge runtime
Node API
Replicated ledger
Elected coordinator
Sensors / models
RFID + Wi-Fi proximity
Hawkeye / camera
Microphone context
Local Gemma/Ollama insight
Safety / security
Policy gate
AES-256-GCM envelopes
Ed25519 signed records
Rust durable agent
Foundry sync queued until gateway is available
Human-reviewed cue, source citations, node-health state, coordinator term, and after-action record.
Team
Built by Altiair.
Four engineers, twenty-four hours, one DDIL mission stack.
Sarah Hatcher
@valencealignment
Benjamin Shyong
@benikigai
Rob Grossman
@digitalnomd
Katherine Lambert
@StellarLuminosity
Source · github.com/digitalnomd/altiair · Site · github.com/benikigai/darkmesh