3.9 million people die every year from micronutrient deficiency. Fresh food doesn’t reach them.
Fresh food. No soil. No grid. No expertise.
In a desert refugee camp, a head of lettuce costs $8 — when it’s available. In an arctic community, $15. Airlifting fresh produce costs $10–50 per kilogram. 828 million people face hunger. 117 million are forcibly displaced. The aid arrives. The vitamins don’t.
FAO, 2024
UNHCR, 2024
WHO
A growth chamber that runs on solar, operates without internet, and is maintained by anyone with two hours of training.
60 trays of fresh greens every 28 days. Lettuce, spinach, kale, microgreens. Microgreens ready in 7–14 days for rapid nutritional intervention. 13 sensors, 24 actuators, 6 layers of safety architecture. All processing on a single-board computer inside the unit.
Commercial growth systems were designed for research labs. Not for yours.
Significant capital investment per unit
Globally available components. No proprietary parts.
Requires trained technicians
Intuitive interface. Hardware fallback indicators. Two hours of training.
Cloud-dependent — fails without internet
Designed to never need internet. Not a fallback. The primary mode.
Needs stable power grid
Solar, generator, or battery. Brownout detection across 5 severity levels.
Designed for Your Environment
Select a profile at setup. The system handles the rest.
Desert Camp
35 – 50°Ce.g. Desert refugee camps
- Cooling prioritized above all non-safety functions
- Closed-loop water recycling — 3L/day budget
- Dust-rated enclosures, weekly filter replacement
- Hardware thermal failsafe independent of software
Arctic Community
−20 to −40°Ce.g. Arctic remote communities
- Heating can never be shed — freezing kills instantly
- Emergency heating triggered at 5°C threshold
- Frost protection for all irrigation lines
- Maintenance windows limited to 20 minutes
Post-Disaster
Variablee.g. Post-earthquake, post-flood zones
- Assembly in 4–6 hours with basic hand tools
- Runs on any available power source
- Fleet mesh networking across multiple units
- Store-and-forward telemetry when connectivity returns
In a refugee camp, things break. Power cuts. Dust storms. Someone leaves the door open.
Five independent protection layers. For someone to get hurt, four of them have to fail at the same time. That doesn’t happen by accident.
Software Monitoring
Cross-validates sensors against physics. If temperature and humidity readings disagree beyond what's psychrometrically possible, it flags the fault before damage occurs.
Safety Interlocks
Minimum ON/OFF timing enforced at the lowest software layer. No higher layer — not the manager, not the AI — can override a compressor cooldown.
Hardware Failsafes
A 45°C thermal switch that doesn't know the computer exists. If the chamber overheats, it vents — with zero software involvement. Works even if the Pi has crashed.
Physical Safety
Fuses. Pressure relief vents. Float switches. Drip trays. Protection by physics, not code.
Operator
Emergency stop button. Manual power disconnect. The human is always the final authority.
The AI inside ReliefSense recommends.
It never controls.
A deterministic safety layer sits between the AI and every actuator. The AI says “increase humidity.” The safety layer approves or denies. This is not a setting. It is the architecture. There is no configuration to turn this off.
Your Field Staff
Operated by your field staff. Not your engineers.
Full monitoring interface with intuitive controls, plus hardware fallback indicators that work even without the display. Designed for operators who may be non-technical, multilingual, or with no prior exposure to electromechanical systems.
Five units. Real conditions. Measured outcomes.
We’re looking for a pilot partner to deploy ReliefSense in the field. Real conditions. Real data. Real learnings fed back into the next version.