DUST · Distributed Universal Sensing Technology
Mission operations break down when edge signals, local sites, and enterprise decisions can't stay coordinated under pressure. DUST is Syllego's governed mission platform for turning distributed signals into coordinated action — capturing what's happening locally, fusing fragmented inputs into operational context, and coordinating action under defined policy, so teams keep operating even when connectivity is degraded, intermittent, or lost.
Governing Policy initializes each deployment · signals gain operational meaning as they move through the layers · governance spans every layer · no layer acts beyond what it is permitted to do.
The operational body is organized into layers. Each has a function, a scope of authority, and a defined behavior when connectivity drops.
What can be directly observed — captured faithfully, with local authority to act on what is seen.
DUST1 is a governed compute unit that captures and normalizes raw operational signals and can execute local, bounded decisions within its granted authority. A node monitoring equipment, for example, can evaluate readings against thresholds and raise a local alert without waiting on higher layers. The line between DUST1 and DUST2 is not the presence of intelligence — it is scope of authority and coordination.
Inputs from many sources are correlated into a coherent local picture — and that picture can trigger pre-authorized action or escalate for human decision.
DUST2 is the aggregation, fusion, and local-operations layer. It correlates signals from multiple DUST1 nodes — and an operator report — into a coherent local situational understanding. When that understanding crosses a defined threshold, DUST2 can trigger a pre-authorized workflow or escalate to DUST3. Under degraded conditions it is a self-contained unit operating within its granted authority. It does not become ungoverned when disconnected.
What no single edge or site can see — reconciled, prioritized, and resolved across the whole.
DUST3 reconciles local context from multiple DUST2 nodes with broader mission context, cross-domain dependencies, and organizational priorities. It is where decisions get made that exceed the authority or awareness of any single site — multi-agency coordination, resource allocation across regions, or decisions that implicate classification boundaries. It holds the full reference logic that edge nodes resynchronize to when connectivity returns.
The boundary between layers is not "where the intelligence is." It is scope of authority and coordination. Every layer acts only within what it was authorized to do — and the system is built to keep operating under disconnected, intermittent, and low-bandwidth conditions, then resynchronize when the network returns. Disconnection does not mean ungoverned.
DUST is what captures, fuses, and coordinates. Governance is what keeps every layer faithful to the rules it was given — governing policy the running system can't overwrite, human decision control for consequential action, and an evidence record for everything that happens.
Explore GovernanceThis page describes DUST at the level of architecture. The specifics of a given deployment are worked out in a briefing.
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