Predictive Power Control
Rate-of-change monitoring and adaptive baselining help reduce brownouts, stabilize load transitions, and preserve uptime under real-world conditions.
NICS • System Health Control Above the BMS and Below the OS
Runtime Stability and Intelligent Control for Lithium-Powered Systems
Nashoba Technologies is developing the Nashoba Intelligent Control System (NICS) – a hardware-level
control layer that improves runtime, stabilizes power behavior, and helps prevent avoidable thermal escalation in
lithium-ion powered devices and systems.
Positioned above the battery management system (BMS) and below the operating system (OS),
NICS interprets battery, thermal, power, and wireless telemetry in real time and applies control policies to preserve
system health, operational stability, and mission continuity.
NICS integrates cleanly with advanced battery platforms, including FusionCore™, while remaining vendor-agnostic
to support multiple device classes, battery architectures, and communication interfaces.
Why NICS?
NICS is designed as an always-on system health control layer that interprets battery, thermal, power, and wireless conditions, detects trend shifts early, and applies deterministic control decisions without relying on cloud infrastructure or deep operating system modification.
Adaptive Thermal Response
Early event detection with controlled step-down and recovery behavior helps prevent oscillation, latch-up, and false escalation during variable workloads.
Wireless Optimization
Continuous signal monitoring with policy-based communication decisions supports environments where stability, uptime, and controlled power use matter more than peak throughput.
Recent Development Progress
Development of the Nashoba Intelligent Control System (NICS) continues to advance toward broader system compatibility, real-world deployment, and platform-level control capability. Recent milestones focus on expanding NICS beyond internal telemetry monitoring to include external system communication and hardware interoperability.
CAN Device Communication
NICS now successfully communicates with CAN-based devices, enabling interaction with external battery management systems and embedded hardware platforms. This expands NICS from internal supervisory logic toward a broader control architecture capable of consuming system-level telemetry from existing platforms.
Multi-Domain Monitoring
Integrated monitoring of power, thermal, and wireless behavior continues to be refined, allowing NICS to interpret dynamic operating conditions and detect early trend shifts that may impact system stability, runtime, or long-term system health.
Layered Control Framework
NICS is being developed as a layered control system positioned above the battery management system and below the operating system. This architecture allows NICS to remain platform-agnostic while supporting deterministic system behavior across different device classes, battery systems, and mission requirements.
NICS Architecture
NICS is structured as a reusable control architecture that separates telemetry intake, system health interpretation, and device-specific policy actions. This makes it easier to integrate across multiple hardware platforms without rewriting the core control engine for each system.
Interface Layer
The interface layer collects and normalizes telemetry from battery systems, onboard sensors, wireless subsystems, and host signals. This includes support for external communication interfaces such as CAN for battery and device interoperability.
Core Engine
The core engine evaluates overall system health using battery, thermal, power, and communication inputs. It performs trend analysis, rate-of-change evaluation, and health-state classification to determine when the system should remain at full capability, degrade gracefully, or preserve critical functions.
Policy Layer
The policy layer defines how each platform responds to changing conditions. This can include brightness reduction, communication policy changes, workload throttling, runtime-preservation modes, and other device-specific actions that support stable operation under stress.
Development Roadmap
NICS is progressing through a staged development path designed to move from validated control logic to integrated hardware, broader battery interoperability, and pilot-ready deployment.
Sensor Integration and Validation
Power, thermal, and wireless monitoring validated through live system testing and dynamic firmware control logic.
Supervisory Control Logic
System health logic refined to respond to runtime, thermal, and power conditions using deterministic policy-based actions.
External System Communication
CAN communication implemented to support compatibility with external battery management systems and embedded platforms.
Integrated Hardware Platform
Transition from development hardware to a custom PCB integrating sensors, communications, and control functions into a single embedded platform.
Pilot and OEM Integration
Prepare NICS for evaluation, pilot deployments, and integration discussions with OEM, industrial, and defense-aligned partners.
Evaluation and Pilot Engagements
NICS is available for evaluation, pilot programs, and integration partnerships.
Contact us to start the conversation.