ce-netHardware. Drawings are illustrations; measured figures are labelled.

Where the node network earns its keep

Any computer or phone running ce-net can carry a reading from a sensor within a few metres of it. Where nothing is listening, we add our own tag or gateway. Everything it hears becomes one record on the network, which Twinton turns into a live model of your floor. Four places this is useful.

ce-net, worldwidedrag to turn
0 readings relayed while you watched. City positions are real; counts are made up for the picture.

Factories

Bought by the plant manager, sold as Twinton

A die for press line 2 is somewhere in the building. Right now someone walks the floor. With a tag on the die and one gateway per hall, the answer is a bay and a timestamp.

  1. Tags go on fixtures, carts and pallets; a tag with a current clamp goes on a machine that has no network port.
  2. Tags range each other over UWB; the hall gateway hears them all.
  3. The gateway publishes each fix to the network, ranked, so a precise fix is never replaced by a vague one.
  4. Twinton places each tag on the floor plan it already has; an agent flags the pallet that has waited two shifts.
replaces
walking the floor, whiteboards, a paper traveller on each pallet
measured
6.1 cm RMS position with 50 tags, simulated, 10 cm range error per link
Hall Alive
    Hall A, 60 by 36 mCircle: tag on a cart. Square: tag on a machine. Diamond: gateway.

    Logistics

    Bought by the shipper, the forwarder or the receiving warehouse

    A pallet of goods leaves a plant in Dongguan for a warehouse in Gothenburg. Every place it stops already has computers: the plant office, the forwarder's desk, the port warehouse, the receiving dock. If those run ce-net, each one signs a record as the pallet passes.

    1. The tag rides in the pallet. No SIM, no subscription, a coin cell.
    2. At each hop, whichever ce device is in range hears it and publishes a fix with its own identity.
    3. The buyer reads one history: where, when, which node vouched for it, and what the temperature and shock inputs said.
    4. Between hops (on the water) there are no records, and the drawing says so.
    replaces
    GPS trackers with a SIM and a monthly fee, per pallet
    trade-off
    no fix at sea; a fix at every place a ce device sits
    Shipment 2026-0417Dongguan to Gothenburg
    Example shipment. Port positions are real.Dashed: no coverage.
    HopWho heard itSourceRecord

    Transportation

    Bought by a fleet operator, city transit or a logistics park

    A truck or bus already has power and a route. Put a small ce node in it and it becomes a gateway that drives past everything else: parked trailers, roadside equipment, tools left at a site, other fleets' tagged assets.

    1. The vehicle's node reports its own position and engine state.
    2. It hears every tag it passes and relays those fixes too.
    3. The more vehicles run ce, the fewer places in a district go unheard for long.
    4. Relayed readings can be credited to the vehicle's owner, the way CE Compute credits GPU time.
    replaces
    a telematics box per vehicle plus a tracker per asset
    open question
    how many vehicles a district needs; the model on the right is a toy
    District coveragesimulated
    Toy model: 1.6 by 1.0 km of streets, 40 tags, 30 m relay rangeBlue bar: a vehicle running ce. Grey dot: one that is not.
    120
    20%
    —tags heard in the last 30 min
    —median minutes since last fix

    Civilian

    Used by residents, a building, a street office

    A sensor in a storm drain reports the water level. A bike in a shared rack reports where it was left. A tool library's ladder reports which flat has it. None of them needs its own connection: the neighbours' laptops and phones running ce carry the reading.

    1. A resident installs ce-net on a laptop or phone and turns on relaying.
    2. Their device carries readings from nearby sensors it can hear, encrypted to the owner.
    3. The street's drain level, air quality or noise becomes a public record anyone on the mesh can read.
    4. The relayer sees nothing of the reading's content, and gets credit for carrying it.
    Never a tag on a person. Tags roll their identifiers, carry a buzzer and a motion sensor, and there is no silent build. Following someone without their knowledge is a product we will not make.
    Street sensorsrelayed by residents
    One street, not to scaleAmber: our sensor. Blue: a resident's ce device.
    SensorReadingCarried by

    How the pieces fit

    The company in one drawing

    The same five parts sit under every use case above.

    PartJob
    Tags and gatewayssense where nothing is listening
    Every ce devicecarries readings it hears nearby
    ce-netkeeps one ranked record per thing: a local read in 1.1 ms against 1158 ms asking 1000 nodes one by one (measured)
    Twintonmodels the floor, the route, the street
    Agentsact on the model: flag, schedule, reorder
    ce-net stackfive parts
    Readings go up, decisions come down

    Try it on one floor

    We are starting with factory pilots in Shenzhen. If you have a hall where things go missing, tell us about it.

    Contact us about a pilot or read what ce-net is.

    ce-net hardware. Positions, counts and shipments in the drawings are illustrations; figures marked measured come from our own tests. Privacy