Drone Swarms

One Abstraction Layer

Fleet management of production-grade endpoints is already challenging, managing prototype endpoints is beyond painful.

Product

Primitive brings you the three pillars essential for any production-grade hardware operation:

Unified Control Plane

Hardware teams shouldn't waste time stringing together IT tools. Everything you need to manage your devices should be in one place.

Flash, provision, locate, monitor, update, and access hardware devices from any location.

Never lose critical build artifacts. Important data is automatically retained, tracked, and discoverable.

Schedule tasks on individual devices or across you entire fleet.

The same engine that powers Primitive's in- and out-of-band intervention and over-the-air updates also enables complex queuing and scheduling of arbitrary tasks.

Intelligent Telemetry. Collect and transmit on-demand or event-triggered monitoring data. Primitive determines the size and type of metrics payload based on network bandwidth and device resources to prevent bandwidth exhaustion in network-constrained environments.
Security by Design. We enforce strong authentication (e.g., role-based access, non-default credentials), encryption for all communications, and firewall rules restricting access to trusted sources only.
Resource Efficiency. Primitive is designed with a minimal hardware footprint and optimized protocols for low bandwidth communication.
Hardware Abstraction and Interoperability. Primitive facilitates unified remote management across diverse hardware devices, easing integration in multi-vendor setups.

Continuous Intervention

Stop sending humans to do what computers can. Primitive's Active Control Gateway enables in- and out-of-band communication over a lean message passing protocol, providing the means to remotely intervene in network-constrained environments.

Primitive Active Control Gateway (ACG)

┌───────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ┌────────────────┐ ┌────────────────┐ │
│ │                │ │                │ │
│ │                │ │                │ │
│ │    Director    │ │                │ │
│ │                │ │                │ │      Safe Firmware Flashing
│ │                │ │                │ │      Power State Control      ┌───────────────────────┐
│ └────────────────┘ │                │ │                               │                       │
│                    │      Relay     │ ├──────────────────────────────►│       Prototype       │
│ ┌────────────────┐ │                │ │                               │                       │
│ │                │ │                │ │      SPI, I2C, CAN BUS,       └───────────────────────┘
│ │                │ │                │ │      Ethernet, RS485/RS422,
│ │     Switch     │ │                │ │      MIPI (Coax Express),
│ │                │ │                │ │      PCIe Gen 5 Interface
│ │                │ │                │ │      Support and Telemetry
│ └────────────────┘ └────────────────┘ │
└───────────────────────────────────────┘

Primitive ACG supports all common hardware interfaces including SPI, I2C, CAN BUS, Ethernet, RS485/RS422, MIPI (Coax Express), and PCIe Gen 5.

Primitive ACG ships with server-grade hardware enabling out-of-band intervention.

Out-of-Band Management is implemented via a dedicated, separate network interface (e.g., BMC with independent Ethernet) isolated from the primary data network. This ensures management access remains available even if the primary network fails or is compromised.
Robust Firmware and Update Management to support secure, over-the-air (OTA) updates with rollback capabilities and integrity checks. This enables remote patching in isolated environments, reducing downtime and vulnerability exposure without physical access.
Fault Tolerance and Redundancy through incorporated failover mechanisms, redundant interfaces, and self-healing features in the BMC. Production hardware operations demand high availability; network constraints amplify the need for local resilience to avoid total isolation.

Copy-exact Production Deployments

Deploy your setup anywhere.

Primitive ACG ships in a ruggedized, industrial enclosure for deployment in any environment.

Primitive Active Control Gateways are modular, rugged, and so easy to set up your EA can do it. We already know how you want your systems configured. We'll deploy copies for you, anywhere in the world. For production deployments, Primitive supports:

Declarative Infrastructure. Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for configurations, enabling automated, version-controlled deployments and rollbacks. This simplifies remote scaling and consistency across heterogeneous fleets without manual intervention, vital for managing devices over unreliable links.
Long Life Cycle Hardware and Software. For the active control gateways, maintaining hardware consistency reduces variables of chaos. For our Director Nodes orchestrating the control plane, we deploy long life hardware to maximize bug tracking, harden most security vulnerabilities, easily access spare parts, and minimize variables of chaos.
Designed for Safety-Critical Platforms. Knowing our customers aspire to achieve global safety-critical standards certifications, Primitive enables software for PLCs and control systems to be developed, verified, and validated using structured methodologies to streamline certification flows and prevent systematic failures.

Use Cases

Company

Primitive is built by hardware and software engineers with deep expertise from: