Question 1

What does a node actually measure?

Accepted Answer

Eleven channels from eight sensing elements on one board: combustible gas, carbon monoxide and general air quality on dedicated gas channels, infrared flame, ambient temperature, humidity and barometric pressure from a combined module, a contact surface-temperature probe, three-axis vibration, sound level, and a camera frame. The channel count and the element count are different numbers on purpose — one module can carry three channels.

Question 2

How is this different from a threshold detector?

Accepted Answer

A threshold reads one channel's present value. HazardX reduces the last twenty-four sample sets to a twelve-element vector built only from rates of change, accelerations, persistence and duration — absolute values are excluded — and matches that shape against the site's own signature library. That is how it separates a slow smoulder from a fast solvent release while every individual channel is still inside its normal band. An absolute-limit floor runs in parallel and the risk level is the more severe of the two, so the behavioural layer can only ever make the system respond earlier, never later.

Question 3

How does one fixed sensor find the direction of a leak?

Accepted Answer

It turns. The sensing head is bolted to a rotating base with its own controller, its own battery and its own ground, sharing a mechanical shaft with the head and no electrical conductor at all. On recognition the platform steps the head through six headings at sixty-degree intervals, waiting for the base to confirm arrival before each sample, and the peak sector gives a bearing. A sweep takes thirty to sixty seconds.

Question 4

What does it tell an operator?

Accepted Answer

Named places, not parts per million. The measured source coordinate is projected onto a three-dimensional model of the facility and the forecast spread zones are intersected with a register of named assets — so the output reads “within sixty seconds the affected zone reaches the solvent store and the packing line” rather than a concentration field.

Question 5

Does it need an internet connection to work?

Accepted Answer

Not to alarm. The absolute-limit floor, the local display and the buzzer all run on the sensing controller itself, so a node keeps alarming through an outage. Connectivity is what carries the reading to the dashboard, and what lets the platform command a sweep — the platform is deliberately not in the safety path.

Question 6

What is the AI allowed to do?

Accepted Answer

Write text on a dashboard. The advisory module reads the current readings, the matched classification and the investigation record, and returns a natural-language severity assessment. It has no software interface, permission or code path by which it can invoke any actuator, any motor command or any alarm driver. Every autonomous action is governed by the deterministic floor and the behavioural layer, and the system runs undegraded with the advisory module switched off.

Question 7

Can we pull the data into our own systems?

Accepted Answer

Yes. There is a public read API with scoped keys covering devices, readings, incidents, alerts and the current hazard level, plus a streaming endpoint. The developer portal has the OpenAPI spec and a playground for trying calls against your own data.

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