SIPSA LABS — EMBEDDED INTELLIGENCE

Machines that notice.

The intelligence is called SIP — woven into the machine itself, so it hears, sees, decides, and acts on the machine. No cloud in the loop.

01 / SHELL

PETG enclosure

Weather-shedding tub + sensor lid. The same geometry our printer runs.

PRINTED IN-LAB ✓
02 / EYE

Confirmation camera

Sky-facing module under the lid — interrogates the cued bearing, rejects what sound alone can't.

MODULE IN-LAB ✓ · REPRESENTATIVE RENDER
03 / EARS

360° mic ring

Four-microphone array — passive, no emissions, hears in every direction at once.

IN-LAB ✓ · LIVE ON THE NODE · REPRESENTATIVE RENDER
04 / BRAIN

Edge compute

Pi-5-class SBC running the full perceive→confirm→act loop entirely on-device.

RUNNING SENTIO TODAY ✓ · REPRESENTATIVE RENDER
THE TEARDOWN — SCROLL TO OPEN THE MACHINE

Everything it takes to notice.

WIRE SHELL = THE REAL PRINT FILE · INTERNALS REPRESENTATIVE

SYS / FIRST MISSIONRF-SILENT DRONE DETECTION
SENSINGPASSIVE 360° ACOUSTIC + EO
COMPUTEON-DEVICE · NO CLOUD
OUTPUTTAK-COMPATIBLE TRACKS
POSTUREDETECT & CUE — NOT A WEAPON

Sipsa Labs builds the intelligence that lets a machine sense its world and act on it — on the device, not in a datacenter.

THE PORTFOLIO

One company. A program of machine-intelligence projects.

01 SentioThe edge-AI platform and its watcher node, Argus — hears, sees, decides, acts. First mission: passive detection of RF-silent drones for defense & critical infrastructure. FLAGSHIP · IN DEV → 02 UltraCompressVerifiable 5-bit model compression. 16,000+ downloads, 23 verified architectures — discontinued honestly when the moat went commodity. Research stays public. 2025–26 · ARCHIVED →
03 Beyond defenseSipsa Labs is the parent company; Sentio is its first, funded application. The same perceive-and-act core is aimed next at agriculture — per-plant sensing and care. Status, honestly labeled: in development. An early machine-actuation interface exists as tested code; the agricultural machines are designs. Defense remains the funded first mission. See THE ARC below. EXPLORATION ○
PROJECT 01 / SENTIO — FIRST MISSION: RF-SILENT DRONE DETECTION
01 / HEAR

A 360° passive cue.

A microphone ring listens in every direction at once — no emissions, day or night. Propulsion cannot be muted: even the fiber-optic drone that radio defenses can't see announces itself.

02 / CONFIRM

Look where it heard.

A camera interrogates the cued bearing and rejects what sound alone can't — the mowers, generators, and gusts that fool single-sensor systems.

03 / ACT

Track out. Hands off.

Confirmed tracks publish in standard formats (TAK-compatible) to the C2 or alerting stack you already run. We cue and confirm — the detection layer, never the weapon.

SIP, HARDENED FOR DEFENSE — THE SENTIO FAMILY

One brain. One mission, three machines.

SIP is the brain — the same on-device perceive → decide → act runtime in every Sipsa machine. Its first mission is defense, where it ships as Sentio and hardens into three machines: the watcher, the hunter, and the ghost.

SIP The brain Systems Intelligence & Precision — the on-device runtime every Sipsa machine carries. It perceives, decides, and acts with no cloud in the loop. First proven in defense, as Sentio; built to embed anywhere machines work.
Argus v3 watcher-node enclosure, engineering render of the real CAD geometry — faceted drum body with louvered acoustic vents, separate sensor lid ENGINEERING RENDER — EARLIER V3 REVISION
THE REAL CAD FILE · CURRENT BUILD: V6 PRINTED & ASSEMBLED IN-LAB
Argus v3 camera facet, engineering render detail — camera aperture and louvered vent panels
RENDER · CAMERA FACET
Argus v3 seen from above, engineering render — open enclosure interior and mounting bosses, lid off
RENDER · TOP, LID OFF
01 / THE WATCHER

Argus

ARGUS PANOPTES — THE HUNDRED-EYED WATCHMAN WHO NEVER FULLY SLEPT.

The node of the first mission: a pole-top sentry that hears in every direction at once, looks where it heard, and publishes confirmed tracks — all on the node itself. Some eyes always open.

  • EARSAcoustic-first. A passive 360° microphone ring — no emissions, and propulsion can't be muted.
  • EYECamera confirm. Interrogates the cued bearing; rejects what sound alone can't.
  • BRAINSIP on-device. The full perceive → decide → act loop runs on the node. No cloud in the loop.
  • DEPLOYDesigned for one cable. PoE power + data, pole- or mast-mount — fence line to rooftop.
SENTIO ARGUS · IN DEVELOPMENT — V6 NODE PRINTED & ASSEMBLED IN-LAB · FIELD CAMPAIGN IN PREPARATION · NO AT-RANGE CLAIMS BEFORE FIELD DATA
Shrike v0 target drone, engineering render — sculpted airframe with teardrop pod, blended arms, bare props ENGINEERING RENDER · V0 AIRFRAME
02 / THE HUNTER

Shrike

The adaptive adversary we build so the watcher learns. A signature-faithful drone — bare props, built to sound like the real thing — that flies realistic intrusion profiles, navigates to its waypoint, and learns to slip the watcher. It carries no weapon — a sensing-and-flight adversary by design, the range asset Argus trains against.

V0 PROTOTYPE · IN DEVELOPMENT
03 / THE GHOST

Whisper

Shrike leaned all the way into stealth — the quietest, lowest-signature adversary we can build. It sets the detection floor: how faint a threat Argus can still catch, measured by us before an adversary measures it for real.

SPECS WITHHELD — BY DESIGN
FROM THE LAB — PUBLISHED AS-IS

We show the plots, not adjectives.

Current results from the simulation campaign — labeled SIM because that's what they are. Field numbers replace these when the field campaign runs, with methodology attached.

Bearing error vs SNR for the 8-mic research array and the 4-mic product array, p50 and p90 bands, simulation
What shrinking the ring costs — 8-mic research array vs 4-mic product array, published before anyone askedSIM · BOTH GEOMETRIES · p50/p90
Probability of detection versus SNR, simulation
Detection probability vs signal-to-noiseSIM · ACOUSTIC DETECTOR
greenfull runtime test suite passing
2h 37mbase print time — 88 g · lid printed & assembled, fit verified
0RF emissions — fully passive by design
0performance claims before field data

Defense first. The platform earns its breadth by winning one mission at a time.

THE ARC — WHERE THIS GOES

Defense is the first mission — and the proving ground.

The mission is machines embedded with intelligence — everywhere machines work. We field it where the need is sharpest first — and nothing expands until the active mission is fielded, supported, and proven.

01

Defense & critical infrastructure

Counter-UAS detection for forces, bases, airports, data centers, the grid — the passive layer that catches what RF and imagery miss.

ACTIVE MISSION
02

Agriculture

The watchful node for fields and herds — pests, intrusions, equipment health, sensed at the fence line and acted on locally.

NEXT CHAPTER
03

Industry

Motors that report their own failing bearings. Lines that hear a jam before it cascades. Senses for the machines that make everything.

VISION
04

Robotics

Perception-and-action cores for machines that move — the same loop, embodied. Intelligence woven into the physical world.

VISION
THE FIRST MACHINE

This geometry is real.

SAME FILE THE PRINTER RAN · V6 NODE PRINTED & ASSEMBLED IN-LAB

HOW WE OPERATE
01

Verify, then claim

Every number ships with its methodology. Where we only have simulation, it says SIM — right on this page.

02

Edge-first

Intelligence belongs in the machine: private by construction, fast by physics, still working when the network isn't.

03

Kill what's commodity

We discontinued our first product when the evidence said the moat was gone — publicly, with the reasoning.

Building where machines
need senses?

Program offices, integrators, site operators, early partners — the door is open while the design is still being shaped by real constraints.

CONTACT — FOUNDER@SIPSALABS.COM