Frontier · Frontier
Taught-Axis Material Process Probe
Teach it any slow process once — fermentation, drying, ice — and it gauges it forever.
Plausible physics, early work — shown honestly as an experiment.
How it works
Any process that moves water or minerals — brewing, curing, drying, freezing — changes how signal travels along fixed paths, in a repeatable way. Show the system the process once, start to finish, and it learns that trajectory. Afterward it can place any moment on that curve, like a gauge that never touched the vat.
In the physics: Any process that moves water, ions, or conductive mass changes eps_r/sigma along fixed propagation paths, producing a reproducible trajectory in (delay, amplitude) space per CIR tap. Because node and scene geometry are static, the trajectory is a stable low-dimensional axis: fermentation changes ionic conductivity, drying lowers eps_r, ice (eps_r~3.2) replacing water (~80) is a huge dielectric swing.
See it work
This is real pipeline output for Frontier, replayed. The exact reading depends on your room.
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How the field becomes an answer
How we prove it
Own-hardware, three demonstrator processes with cheap ground truth: bread-dough/beer fermentation (hydrometer), lumber drying (moisture meter), freezer-coil icing (caliper); success = monotone axis tracking r>0.8 on held-out cycles for at least 2 of 3.
Who it is for
'Show it once, sense it forever' — a self-calibrating process gauge for food/beverage producers, grain and lumber operators, and cold-chain facilities, sold as a platform capability rather than a point sensor.
The matching solution
Complete first-room estimateField Lab Kit6 nodes · ~$320 parts · 120 min Request kit, subscribe, or set up →Compatible DIY hardware options
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