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AESTRION
Limassol · Cyprus EST · 2026 Status · Hardware prototyping
◆ AESTRION · CIVIC INFRASTRUCTURE · EST 2026

We build the network
a city falls back on.

◆ Status
Hardware prototyping
active development · 2026
◆ Pilot
Limassol, Cyprus
urban range testing · 2026 target
◆ Stack
Four-layer node
power · mesh · edge · civic APIs
◆ Operating mode
Always on
peacetime ↔ emergency · same hardware
◆ Continue
Same hardware
Two modes. One network.
Normal mode · 99.7% of the time

Ready for smart-city infrastructure.

Designed so that buses, parking, air sensors and lighting can run on the same mesh, through the same APIs, onto the same municipal dashboard. One integration, citywide — these are examples of what the network is built to carry.

Civic alertsReady
Air qualityReady
Public WiFiReady
Smart parkingIn progress
◆ Example integrations · platform-ready, not yet deployed
◆ Uptime target
24 / 7 · 365 · always-on by design
◆ Integration
Open API · days, not years
Crisis mode · automatic fail-over

Critical comms infrastructure.

When upstream goes dark, the same hubs become the last working channel — citizen ↔ emergency services, satellite-backed, mesh-relayed, offline-capable.

Satellite + mesh fail-over
911 + dispatch routing
Citizen alerts · instant
Offline-first relay
◆ Mode
Crisis · Auto fail-over
◆ Designed for
24 / 7 · 365 · always-on operation
◆ 01 · THE PROBLEM

A network and operating system for the smart city. A lifeline for citizens when the network can't reach them.

Smart-city projects today each run on their own connectivity — separate carriers, separate contracts, each silent the moment its upstream link is cut. AESTRION is a network of street-level hubs that gives every project one always-on connection — and stays reachable to citizens when the public internet doesn't.

01
Built into the streets, not bought from a vendor.
Connectivity comes from physical hubs deployed across the city — not from a remote provider's status page.
02
One network. Every project.
Sensors, parking, lighting, public WiFi, civic information all share the same hubs. One integration, every smart-city service.
03
City-owned. AESTRION-operated.
The hardware belongs to the host municipality. We handle the deployment, firmware, monitoring, and upkeep — so the city gets the infrastructure without staffing a network operations team.
04
Reachable in a crisis.
When power and internet go dark, the hubs keep running on satellite uplink, mesh radio between nodes, and local cache. Same hardware. No mode switch.
◆ 02 · HOW IT WORKS · LIVE MESSAGES

Every hub is a mesh radio. Watch real messages ride the network.

NETWORK · LIMASSOL 12 HUBS · LIVE
◆ MAP · LIMASSOL CORE RELAYING
CITIZEN→HUB-7→HUB-12→DISPATCH
"Trapped in basement, water rising fast. Polemidia, building 14."
◆ HOP · 880 MS DELIVERED

◆ Hub Lite · pole-mounted, solar-trickle · Hub Main · totem with screen, charging strip, Starlink dish · both run the same firmware and the same Aestrion-Core mesh radio.

◆ DUAL USE · INTRINSIC

In peacetime, the network connects every smart-city project — one shared mesh where sensors, lighting, and civic systems all run. The moment a crisis hits — no power, no internet — the same network is the city's lifeline: dispatch reach, citizen comms, cached information, charging. Same hardware. Same network. No mode switch.

◆ Deployment is permissionless to the user — a hub serves anyone within range, on any device, regardless of subscription.

◆ 03 · TWO FORM FACTORS

One platform. Two device types. Same firmware, same role in the network — different physical reach.

RATIO · ~1:3
MAIN · LITE

The network is built from a deliberate pair of devices. The two share firmware, mesh role, and operational model — they differ only in form, energy budget, and the additional services a Main Hub can host on the street.

A typical city deploys a small number of Main Hubs at plazas, transit stops, and civic anchors, with a much larger population of Hub Lites along streets, lampposts, and rooftops. Density and reach come from the Lites; internet bridge and citizen-facing services come from the Mains.

◆ MODEL · A POLE · LAMPPOST · FAÇADE

Hub Lite

The dense, low-cost, solar-powered backbone of the mesh. Quietly does its job on a pole.

Form
Pole-mounted · compact enclosure · no screen, no charger
Power
Solar + battery buffer. Off-grid by default — runs through extended outages on its own roof.
Comms
Aestrion-Core mesh · participates as both endpoint and relay.
Sensing
Optional environmental payload — air quality, noise, temperature. Acts as collector for any nearby municipal IoT project.
Storage
Hosts local cache of civic information for offline retrieval through the mesh.
Emergency
Carries citizen ↔ dispatch traffic over the same Aestrion-Core mesh that moves sensor data in peacetime.
Role
The density layer. Many of these per neighbourhood.
◆ MODEL · B PLAZA · TRANSIT · CIVIC ANCHOR

Hub

A standalone street fixture. Brings satellite internet, a public screen, and charging to the corner — and bridges the mesh to the outside world.

Form
Standalone street unit. Public screen, charging ports, sensor array.
Power
Grid + battery buffer · solar where viable. Sized to drive the screen and charging load.
Comms
Starlink terminal for satellite internet · also serves as a Aestrion-Core mesh relay between Hub Lites.
Public services
Civic info screen · phone charging · public WiFi · environmental sensing — peacetime utility on the corner.
Storage
Same offline cache as Hub Lite, plus aggregation across nearby Lites.
Emergency
Becomes the city's internet bridge when ISPs go down. Citizens reach dispatch and the outside world here.
Role
The anchor layer. A few per neighbourhood.
◆ COMMON PLATFORM

Both devices run the same firmware, sit on the same Aestrion-Core mesh, host the same offline cache, and collect from the same municipal IoT integrations. A city scales by mixing the ratio — not by maintaining two parallel platforms.

◆ FOR CITIZENS WHO LOOK UP

Every walk past a Hub is a small, quiet message: your municipality is taking care of you.

Hub Mains sit in the most-trafficked spots — squares, transit nodes, civic gateways — and their public screens carry the council's identity in plain view. Hub Lites handle the rest of the city, paired with mounted info boards on lampposts, plaza edges, and façades. Together they sit there, day in and day out, telling the citizen: this corner is connected, this council has invested, and if anything ever goes wrong, this hardware is on your side.

◆ FOR COUNCIL · DIRECT

The municipality stays the author. AESTRION is the supplier.

FRAME · DEED / DOCUMENT
FOR · MAYOR & COUNCIL
◆ FOUR REASONS A COUNCIL GETS ON BOARD

What a prepared city gets — that a paper one doesn't.

◆ 01
The city's name on every Hub.

"Commissioned by the city of ___" — visible to every citizen, every day. The work is attributable. It's a public good with an author.

◆ 02
One platform · every smart-city project.

The mesh is the unified backbone. Add parking, lighting, sensing — they ride this rail. No fragmented vendor stack. No re-platforming.

◆ 03
Free public WiFi from day one.

An everyday utility every citizen uses, paid for once, branded by the city — not an annual procurement line that competes with social budgets.

◆ 04
The resilience badge.

When the next storm or outage hits, this city is the one whose network stayed on. That story is told once and earned for years.

◆ DEED OF READINESS · CITY EDITION
◆

City of < Your City >.

Commissioning Authority · Signatory · 2026

This city, by act of its council, commits to continuous civic infrastructure for the safety, communication, and care of its citizens — in peacetime and in emergency, on the same hardware, under its own name.

OFFICE OF THE MAYOR
CITY OF < Your City >
2027
AESTRION · SUPPLIER
< Your City > · CYPRUS
UNDER CITY AUTHORITY
◆ 06 · PEACETIME · EMERGENCY

The same hardware. Two states. Zero switch-over time.

MODE · SEAMLESS
FAILOVER · INTRINSIC
Peacetime · everyday
A park bench, made of radio and silicon.
  • Public WiFi for residents and visitors
  • Environmental sensors — air, noise, traffic
  • Civic information points and wayfinding
  • Phone charging, accessibility services
  • Quiet, reliable, always there
Emergency · the moment it strikes
Same hardware. Same network. Critical comms.
  • Satellite internet stays on
  • Aestrion-Core mesh radio links every node
  • Direct emergency dispatch reach
  • Citizens charge their phones at the hub
  • Locally cached: shelters, water, roads, help
No mode switch. No manual activation. The emergency network is the same network, always running underneath.
◆ 07 · FIELD LOG · LIMASSOL

Where we are, plainly stated.

UPDATED · APR 2026
NEXT REVIEW · 2026
PhaseHardware prototyping
SiteLimassol, Cyprus
ActivityUrban range testing — validated
Pilot target2026
FundingOpen · investors + EU grants
TeamHardware · RF · edge systems

We are currently in the hardware prototyping phase, with validated urban range testing underway in Limassol, Cyprus, targeting live pilot for 2026.

The pilot will deploy a small mesh of Citizen Readiness Hubs across a defined urban perimeter to characterise real-world range, peacetime utility, and failover behaviour when the upstream link is severed under controlled test conditions.

Updates will be posted to this section as milestones are reached. The page is the log.

◆ NOTE · Forward-looking targets are working dates, not commitments. We will update them, in public, as the program advances.
◆ 08 · OPERATING PRINCIPLES

How we build. Stated up front, so partners can hold us to it.

REV · 01
APR 2026
◆ 01 · INDEPENDENCE

No single upstream can silence the network.

Satellite, mesh radio, and local cache form three independent paths. The system continues to deliver civic value when any one of them is degraded or absent.

◆ 02 · UTILITY-FIRST

One platform for every smart-city project.

The mesh is a unified backbone for all smart city applications — and grows with every new municipal project layered on top. Continuity is paid for by everyday usefulness; emergency capability is intrinsic, not a separately-budgeted layer.

◆ 03 · LOCAL JURISDICTION

The municipality owns its infrastructure.

Data residency, governance, and operational control sit with the host city — not with a remote vendor. AESTRION supplies and manages the network — hardware, firmware, integration, and operations — under the city's authority.

◆ 04 · OPEN INTERFACES

No proprietary lock-in at the civic API layer.

Public-sector services consume open, documented interfaces. Cities can build, contract, or migrate against them without re-platforming.

◆ 05 · STANDARD HARDWARE

Built from commodity components, integrated rigorously.

No exotic silicon. No bespoke radios. The novelty is in the integration, the firmware, and the operational model — not in the bill of materials.

◆ 06 · FORWARD HONESTY

We will publish what works and what doesn't.

Every claim about the system is anchored to a public test. If a target slips, we will say so, and explain what changed. The page is the log.

◆ 09 · STAGE · WORKING TIMELINE

Where we are. Where we are going. Plainly.

REVISED ON MILESTONE
NEXT · 2026
01Done
Feasibility

Technology proven. Radio link budgets, power profiles, and civic-API surface validated in field tests.

02Now
Hardware prototyping

Component integration, urban range characterisation in Limassol, firmware bring-up.

032026
Live pilot

Small mesh deployed across a defined urban perimeter. Public field log updated as milestones land.

042027
Multi-city expansion

Scale beyond Limassol — live AESTRION networks operating across multiple cities. First civic-API consumers integrated; cross-city interoperability tested in production.

05Beyond
Inter-city fabric

Open hardware specification + civic API standard for cross-municipality readiness networks.

◆ 10 · GET IN TOUCH

Investors, EU-grant approvers, municipal partners, builders — we read everything.

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BASED · LIMASSOL · CYPRUS

Every city deserves a network that works when everything else fails. We are building it.

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