Predictive maintenance
Tracks long-term wear in battery capacity, panel efficiency, and charging behaviour — flags components weeks before they fail, not after the runway goes dark.
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Shadowfax
Telemetry monitoring, real-time alerts, and predictive maintenance for distributed field equipment.
Shadowfax connects to existing field infrastructure read-only, predicts component wear before it causes outages, detects anomalies automatically, and delivers daily health reports — with no cloud dependency and no changes to existing systems. Built for system integrators and operations teams who need reliable, low-maintenance monitoring.
The data was already there
Shadowfax came from a gap we kept running into while working with distributed installations.
Field systems — airfield lighting, industrial equipment, remote infrastructure — generate telemetry constantly: battery levels, output readings, fault events. The hardware logs it. The data accumulates. But in most deployments, nobody acts on it until something fails. Maintenance is reactive by default, not because operators want it that way, but because there was no practical layer between raw telemetry and actionable insight.
The idea wasn't to replace existing infrastructure or add new sensors. It was to make what's already being recorded actually useful — to detect wear patterns before they become failures, and give the people responsible a clear daily picture without digging through databases.
How it works
Three stages, all automatic — from raw telemetry to actionable intelligence.
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Connects
Reads telemetry from the existing lighting system database. Read-only, non-invasive — nothing installed on the lighting hardware itself.
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Analyses
Detects anomalies, tracks trends, and identifies maintenance signals automatically — adapting to your device population without manual thresholds.
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Reports
Delivers daily health summaries, real-time alerts, and intelligent narratives — so the operator knows what changed and what to act on.
A look inside
Six screens that show how Shadowfax sees the field, surfaces problems, and is configured.
Dashboard
Engine status, device health, and open incidents at a glance.
Features
Everything needed to keep an airfield lighting system observable, accountable, and quiet.
Real-time anomaly detection
Continuous monitoring of battery, solar, output current, temperature, and connectivity across all devices.
Incident lifecycle tracking
Every fault is opened, tracked, escalated if needed, and closed automatically — no manual triage required.
Daily health reports
Automated summaries with intelligent narratives — no manual effort, delivered to the inbox each morning.
Group-level intelligence
Anomalies detected relative to peer devices, not fixed thresholds — adapts to any hardware mix automatically.
Alert management
Full alarm log with severity levels, per-device rule suppression, and exception handling.
Works offline
Runs entirely on a local server. No internet, no cloud — no external dependencies that can fail.
Non-invasive integration
Read-only access to existing data. Nothing installed on lighting hardware, no firmware changes.
Multi-type support
Runway, taxiway, threshold, approach, PAPI, and solar engines — all device types covered out of the box.
Key facts
Five things worth knowing before a pilot.
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Offline operation
No cloud dependency. Everything runs on a local server.
0
Changes to existing systems
Read-only integration. Lighting hardware untouched.
2026
Production rollout
Currently in pilot deployment.
All
Major device types supported
Runway, taxiway, threshold, approach, PAPI, solar engines.
SI
Built for system integrators
Not just end users — designed for deployment partners.
Roadmap
Where Shadowfax is, and where it is going.
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v1.0 Done
Core monitoring platform. Production-ready.
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v1.1 Done
Automated daily reports and alarm history.
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v1.2 In progress
Device history and intelligent health summaries.
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v1.3 Planned
Real-time notifications via email, messaging apps, and third-party systems.
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v2.0 Planned
Multi-site monitoring from a single dashboard.
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v3.0 Planned
Support for centralised lighting systems (CCR).
Want to see Shadowfax in your environment?
Tell us a bit about your setup — number of devices, deployment context, what you're trying to solve. We'll set up a tailored demo.