Continuous System Awareness
Monitor electrical, thermal, communication, and equipment conditions continuously at the embedded level.
NICS | Independent Supervisory Intelligence
Give Your Equipment a Second Set of Eyes
Your controllers control. Your sensors measure. Your telematics report. NICS watches how the system is behaving.
The Nashoba Intelligent Control System (NICS) is an embedded supervisory intelligence layer designed to work alongside the systems already operating your equipment. NICS evaluates power, thermal, communication, and equipment conditions together to recognize developing abnormal behavior and support predefined responses.
Keep the equipment. Keep the controls. Keep the architecture. Add NICS.
NICS is moving from validated engineering hardware toward dedicated embedded hardware and partner evaluation across mobile, rugged, industrial, battery, and vehicle platforms.
Your equipment may already be warning you.
A developing problem does not always begin with a fault code. Power behavior changes. Temperature trends shift. Communications become unstable. Loads behave differently than expected. Individually, those signals may appear acceptable. Together, they may tell a different story.
See More Than Individual Signals
NICS is designed to interpret operating conditions together instead of treating every sensor, controller, or subsystem as an isolated source of information. The objective is simple: recognize meaningful changes in system behavior early enough for the platform to respond intelligently.
Understand Behavior in Context
Evaluate trends, rate of change, operating baselines, and multiple signals together to identify behavior that deserves attention.
Enable Controlled Action
Apply predefined supervisory policies when operating conditions warrant a response, while preserving clear boundaries around NICS authority.
A Small Addition to the Platform. A New Layer of Awareness.
NICS is being engineered as a compact embedded supervisory layer. The goal is to add intelligence without requiring manufacturers to replace the systems they have already designed, tested, and deployed.
SWaP Conscious
Dedicated NICS hardware is being developed with size, weight, and power considerations in mind for mobile, rugged, and embedded platforms.
Keep Existing Controllers
NICS is designed to complement ECUs, BMS platforms, sensors, telematics, and embedded controllers rather than replace them.
Edge Intelligence
Supervisory processing can occur locally without requiring continuous cloud connectivity for basic decision making.
Platform Adaptable
A reusable architecture and external communication interfaces provide a path toward integration across different equipment and device classes.
NICS Adds Intelligence, Not Infrastructure
NICS is not intended to become another large computing stack attached to your equipment. It is being developed as a focused supervisory layer that works with the electronics already present on the platform.
Your Systems Operate the Machine
Existing controllers, battery systems, sensors, and communications hardware continue performing the functions they were designed to perform.
NICS Supervises How It Is Operating
NICS interprets operating information across domains and looks for meaningful changes in overall system behavior.
Another Layer of Awareness
The platform gains an independent supervisory perspective without requiring a wholesale redesign of its existing control architecture.
Not Just a Concept. Working Engineering.
NICS has progressed into functioning embedded hardware and firmware. Current development is focused on transitioning validated supervisory behavior toward dedicated hardware and broader equipment integration.
Working Embedded Platform
NICS has been developed and exercised on ESP32-based engineering hardware using live sensor inputs and real system loads.
Live Power and Thermal Monitoring
Engineering validation includes continuous electrical and thermal telemetry under changing operating conditions.
Supervisory State Decisions
NICS firmware has demonstrated operating-state classification and policy-controlled responses based on observed conditions.
External Communication Validated
CAN communication has been demonstrated as NICS expands toward vehicle, battery, and equipment-level integration.
Dedicated NICS Hardware
A production-oriented embedded hardware platform is currently in engineering development for more repeatable integration and evaluation.
Partner Validation
The next stage is evaluating NICS against real operating conditions and equipment problems with commercial, industrial, and government partners.
Don’t Take Our Word for It. Challenge NICS.
You already know which equipment problems keep coming back. Give NICS one of them.
A recurring thermal condition. An unexplained power event. Intermittent communications. Equipment behavior that is difficult to reproduce. A CAN or J1939 condition hidden inside thousands of messages.
Nashoba can work with your team to determine whether NICS can recognize the condition, interpret it in context, and provide useful supervisory awareness.
You don’t have to believe the pitch. Let the engineering prove it.
How NICS Works
NICS uses a layered architecture that separates data collection, supervisory interpretation, and platform-specific responses. This allows the core supervisory approach to remain reusable while integration and policies are adapted to the equipment.
Interface Layer
Collects and normalizes information from onboard sensors, power systems, battery systems, communications interfaces, host signals, and supported external interfaces such as CAN.
Supervisory Core
Evaluates operating behavior using trends, rate of change, contextual baselines, and health-state classification.
Policy Layer
Defines permitted platform responses, including runtime preservation, workload changes, communication policies, and other application-specific supervisory actions.
Built for Equipment That Needs to Keep Working
NICS is being developed for environments where unexpected system behavior, difficult diagnostics, power instability, thermal stress, or communications problems can affect availability and operational continuity.
Commercial and Specialty Vehicles
Supervisory intelligence for increasingly connected vehicle and mobile equipment architectures.
Heavy and Industrial Equipment
Equipment-health awareness for platforms where downtime and difficult troubleshooting carry real operational cost.
Embedded and Mission Systems
Local supervisory intelligence for rugged computing, logistics, defense, public safety, utility, and other operational platforms.
Battery and Electrified Platforms
System-level supervisory awareness that can operate alongside existing battery management and power electronics.
What Problem Would You Give NICS?
Nashoba Technologies is selecting organizations for technical evaluations, integration discussions, and early partner validation.
You do not need a finished program or a commitment to deploy NICS. Start with one operating problem worth investigating.
A small addition to the platform. A new layer of intelligence across it.
NICS is available for technical evaluation, integration partnerships, and early deployment discussions.
Based in the United States | Open to domestic and international collaboration
Contact Nashoba Technologies
NICS is available for technical evaluation, integration partnerships, and early deployment discussions.
Based in the United States | Open to domestic and international collaboration
Contact Nashoba Technologies