Project cooperationUpdated on 2 July 2026
Pilot Cooperation: Sovereign AI-IoT Factory for Industrial Edge & Agentic AI Governance
Founder at NuManufacturing IoT & AI Technologies AS
Aschaffenburg, Germany
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organizations that want to use AI, IoT and operational data without losing control over data, decisions or evidence.
The core idea is simple: AI should not only be powerful. It must be controlled, auditable, resilient and useful in real operations. The ecosystem connects industrial edge dashboards, fleet and asset control, predictive maintenance, project and operations intelligence, local model execution and a governed context graph into one sovereign control architecture.
Core building blocks include:
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ACE / AIMDB — context graph and AI control layer for agents, policies, data products, ownership, lineage, approvals and governed execution.
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DGX / DLD — local AI compute and learning control plane for validated operational data, model evaluation, adapter training and controlled release.
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HID — human and edge interaction dashboard for local industrial environments.
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FCC — fleet, asset and CMDB-oriented command center for visibility, drift alerts and compliance support.
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PMD — project, maintenance and operational intelligence layer.
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CWS — customer and public web surface for product discovery, communication and controlled external access.
I am looking for partners to turn this architecture into concrete pilots, commercial deployments and research-backed validation.
Ideal cooperation partners include:
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German and EU Mittelstand companies with industrial, infrastructure, healthcare-adjacent, energy, logistics or smart-city use cases.
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System integrators, OT/IoT partners and edge infrastructure providers.
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AI governance, cybersecurity, compliance and data platform partners.
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Investors, accelerators and public-funding partners interested in sovereign AI infrastructure.
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Research partners working on agentic AI, AI safety, industrial AI, data governance or trustworthy AI systems.
Possible cooperation formats:
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4–8 week discovery and architecture assessment.
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3–6 month pilot in a controlled industrial or enterprise environment.
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Joint R&D or grant project around sovereign agentic AI, secure edge AI, AI governance, data mesh, context graphs and auditability.
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Strategic implementation partnership for the DACH and EU market.
The project is currently between planning and execution. The architecture, positioning and prototype concepts exist; the next step is partner-led validation, pilot scoping and commercialization.
The system is designed for local/on-prem or hybrid deployment, human-in-the-loop approval for critical actions, tamper-evident evidence capture, operational resilience and GDPR / EU AI Act readiness. It is not presented as a certified product yet; cooperation will help validate technical, legal and market requirements.
I would be happy to meet partners who want to build trustworthy, sovereign and operationally relevant AI systems — not only isolated AI experiments.
Stage
- Early
- Planning
- Execution
Type
- Research
- Technical
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