Buildings don’t speak.
Cardinal makes them say what’s wrong.
The infrastructure intelligence OS. One real-time canvas for every sensor, camera, microphone, and signal you operate — from one office to a hundred industrial sites.
What Stripe is to payments. What Linear is to engineering.
Cardinal is what your physical infrastructure has been missing.
Every site you operate produces signals — environmental, mechanical, video, audio, occupancy, energy. Today, those signals live in twelve different vendor dashboards, none of which talk to each other. Cardinal is the operating system that unifies them — one real-time canvas, one API, one auth model, one source of truth.
Your buildings finally know where they are.
Every sensor pinned to the floor it lives on. Every event rendered onto the room it happened in.
Cardinal’s layout engine ingests your floor plans, site schematics, or BIM data and binds every device to a coordinate. Telemetry doesn’t show up as a row in a log — it shows up as a pulse on the exact panel, room, or rack that produced it. When something fails at 2 AM, you don’t read a SKU. You see where to walk.
- 14:32:08.241HVAC-04OVERTEMP 73.2°C → escalating
- 14:32:05.641ENV-08HUMIDITY 44% rh
- 14:32:05.918CAM-05OCCUPANCY 0 → 1 person
- 14:32:06.205MIC-LAB-03ANOMALY motor whine · 200ms
- 14:32:06.521POWER-MAINLOAD 42.1 kW · steady
- 14:32:06.873DOOR-AACCESS badge 4192-0E
Bring your layout
Floor plans, CAD, or schematics in — a queryable spatial graph out. Cardinal binds every device to a coordinate, not a row in a log.
Coordinates everywhere
Every sensor has an X, Y, Z, room, and floor. Query by space the way you'd query a database.
One model, many views
Cardinal stores the site once and renders it the way you need to read it — top-down for ops, layered for engineering.
A smart-home app can’t run a factory.
A factory dashboard can’t run a hospital.
Cardinal runs all of them — the same way.
Most monitoring tools were built for one signal type, one site, one industry. Cardinal was built for the way physical infrastructure actually runs in 2026: many sites, many signal types, many tenants, one decision-making layer.
| Capability | Smart home | CCTV / VMS | BMS | Industrial IoT | FM software | App monitoring | Cardinal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built for | One household | One building's cameras | One building's HVAC + lights | One factory line | One workorder system | One software stack | Many sites · many signals · many tenants |
| Signal types | A few consumer sensors | Video only | Building systems only | Vertical-specific | None — paperwork | App / infra metrics | Every signal a physical site emits |
| Spatial | No | Camera locations | Vendor-locked | Sometimes | PDF floor plans | No | Live spatial canvas, queryable |
| Multi-tenant | No | Single-site | Single-site | Single-site | Light | Yes (workspaces) | First-class · hard isolation |
| API-first | No | Limited | No | Vendor-locked | No | Yes | Kafka-compat · gRPC · webhooks |
| AI-ready | No | Bolt-on | No | No | No | Logs only | Native typed event streams |
| Edge-native | No | Local NVR | Local controller | Local SCADA | No | No | Same binary at edge + cloud |
| Audio | No | Sometimes | No | No | No | No | Native · event detection |
| Onboarding | Per device | Per camera | Vendor specialist | Custom integration | Manual data entry | Code | QR · NFC · zero-touch |
Six operational pictures. One Cardinal.
Predictive maintenance, audited
Vibration, thermal, acoustic, and current signals fused into a single failure-prediction stream. Workorder created before the line stops.
Patient-flow + asset tracking
Occupancy by ward, equipment by floor, environmental compliance per OR. HIPAA-aligned audit trail of every privileged action.
Every site, one operations canvas
Hierarchical tenants for branches, regions, business units. Aggregate the fleet; drill to the room. Same auth, same RBAC.
Yard + cold-chain intelligence
Trailer dwell, cold-chain integrity, PPE compliance from cameras, gate access from RFID. One real-time map of the entire yard.
Rack-level observability
Per-rack thermal, humidity, particulate, and acoustic baselines. Catch the failing fan two days before it takes a switch with it.
Site-level power intelligence
Load disaggregation per circuit, anomaly alerts on draw patterns, integration with on-site solar and storage telemetry.
Four layers. One contract per layer. No vendor lock.
Every layer of Cardinal ships a documented guarantee. Edge nodes federate only what you allow. Event schemas are versioned. The intelligence layer is a stream, not a black box.
- L4IntelligenceOpenAPI + gRPC streams
- Kafka-compat fan-out
- Webhooks
- Configurable replay
- Schema registry
Every event is a typed message your model can subscribe to.
- L3Spatialper-tenant isolation
- Layout graph
- Tenant tree
- RBAC down to a sensor
- BYOK encryption
Hard isolation at the data, network, and inference layers.
- L2Event pipelineAt-least-once · idempotent
- Idempotent ingest
- Time-windowed replay
- Versioned schemas
- Backpressure-safe
No event lost, no event silently changed.
- L1Edge runtimeARM64 + x86 · same binary
- Modbus
- BACnet
- MQTT
- OPC UA
- LoRaWAN
- KNX
- Zigbee
- RTSP
- ONVIF
Cardinal runs on a Raspberry Pi or a 64-core gateway. Same code path.
What your CISO needs in week one
is what we built in week one.
Data isolation
- Per-tenant encryption keys, BYOK supported.
- PostgreSQL row-level security at the database layer.
- No shared compute pools between tenants on the inference path.
Compliance posture
- Designed for SOC 2 Type 1 — target Q3 2026.
- HIPAA-aligned architecture for healthcare deployments.
- GDPR-compliant by design, not by policy.
Operational security
- Zero-trust device onboarding via hardware attestation.
- Signed firmware updates, rotated keys, no static credentials.
- Immutable audit log, exportable to your SIEM.
Cardinal is in active development.
Onboarding select partners.
If you operate three or more sites, run regulated infrastructure, or have ever found out about an incident from a phone call — tell us. We’ll send a one-page architecture review within 24 hours.
- One call. One page. Honest go / no-go on fit.
- 30-day pilot on one site before any annual commitment.
- You keep the architecture review either way.