Product preview — illustrative, modeled on the Phase 1 bench prototype's data structure. Click through for the real interactive demo.
Three Phases, One Roadmap
Inspired by how infrastructure companies sequence proof before scale
PHASE 0–1
Prove
Bench prototype, first pilot, on a rented satellite relay — no owned satellite capex until the model is proven.
PHASE 2–3
Scale
Pathfinder satellites, national CGD rollout, owned-constellation economics validated against the rented-relay baseline.
PHASE 4
Platform
MRV-as-a-service for carbon verifiers and insurers — the long-horizon thesis detailed in the Vision document.
Who This Is For
Different reasons to care, one detection layer underneath
Operators
Faster detection
Ground-level alerts instead of waiting on the next satellite pass — catch leaks before they become incidents.
Regulators
Compliance-ready records
Automated, audit-grade reporting aligned to PNGRB obligations, generated as anomalies occur, not reconstructed after.
Investors
A staged, honest roadmap
Every technology claim tied to a documented TRL milestone — what's proven, what's next, and what it costs.
Carbon & ESG teams
Verifiable emissions data
Ground-truth detection paired with satellite confirmation — a data trail built for scrutiny, not just disclosure.
How VayuOrbit Helps Pipeline Operators
A closer look, for operators evaluating what this actually changes day to day
The problem today
▼ Survey vans driving pipeline routes to sniff for leaks
▼ Workers manually checking joints and valves
▼ Expensive SCADA/GIS overhead to run in remote areas
How VayuOrbit is designed to help
■ Designed as an out-of-band overlay — no control-system access required
■ Low-power radio instead of costly constant cellular data
■ Gas + vibration cross-checked to cut false-alarm digging
■ Satellite imagery only called in once ground anomaly is confirmed
We're currently validating this approach on a working bench prototype — the core sensing and low-power radio link have been built and tested. A field pilot on a real pipeline corridor is the next step before production-ready deployment. The out-of-band integration design is our planned approach, not something built and tested yet.
Frequently Asked Questions
Direct answers, including where we honestly stand today
Does this replace our existing SCADA or GIS systems? ▼
No. VayuOrbit is designed as an out-of-band overlay — sensors report out through their own independent channel and are designed to never plug into or send commands back into your core control network. This avoids the heaviest category of industrial control-system security review by architecture, not by exception. Deeper integration (passive GIS export, then full integration) is planned to happen only in phases, after reliability is proven in the field.
What happens if there's a false alarm? ▼
Every alert is designed to cross-check gas concentration against physical vibration data before it's raised — a single noisy sensor reading can't trigger an alert on its own. This is meant to reduce the false-alarm digging that makes traditional survey methods so costly.
How mature is this technology today? ▼
We're currently validating this approach on a working bench prototype — the core sensing and low-power radio link have been built and tested. A field pilot on a real pipeline corridor is the next step before production-ready deployment. We're upfront about this with every partner conversation, not just when asked.
Do you have a live satellite constellation today? ▼
Not yet. The near-term plan uses an existing, already-orbiting satellite-IoT relay (rented, not owned) to validate the tip-and-cue mechanism first. Owning a satellite constellation is a later phase, built only once that model is proven — see the Vision document for the full staged roadmap.
What does integration actually look like, step by step? ▼
Three phases, each gated on the one before it: (1) a standalone early-warning dashboard requiring zero interaction with your internal software, (2) once alert accuracy is trusted, optional passive data export into your existing GIS tools, and (3) deeper integration only after reliability is proven in the field. Nothing skips ahead of what's actually been validated.
How does data get from a ground sensor to your dashboard? ▼
A ground sensor detects an anomaly and sends a short alert over long-range, low-power radio (LoRa) — no cellular or fiber needed. That alert is designed to relay through a satellite, which triggers a request for verification imagery — the "tip-and-cue" pattern. This is not a novel invention; GHGSat already automates a version of it. VayuOrbit's contribution is moving the trigger to the ground, where gas concentration is most accurately sensed.
City Gas DistributionOil and gas midstreamLandfill operatorsCarbon credit verification
Trigger physical anomaly vectors from Ground Node A using symbolic control inputs, over AU915 (Melbourne bench testing — IN865 applies later, for India field deployment).
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[◯ ORBIT] Secure LoRa listener active on AU915 (915–928 MHz, Melbourne bench testing)...