The platform
12:51▶The TechUPGRADE platform
The whole platform: architecture, technologies, protocols and tenants, then every module on the live system.
15:07▶AI infrastructure, L0–L4
Our own language models on our own GPUs: FVLLMP and its gateway, the development and audit layer, the owner agents.
13:35▶TechUPGRADE AI agents
Hermes plans, Claude Code develops; eagent owners know and watch every component and device, and talk to each other.
The reactor room in 2-D and 3-D
4:26▶Theta 5 kW reactor room — 2-D
The room's P&ID as a live control board: 42 devices bound to the reactor cycle.
3:35▶Theta 5 kW reactor room — 3-D
The same room in 3-D, with the reaction inside the two reactors.
10:29▶3D Visualization
The 3-D system: architecture, technologies, the tools — valves, volumes, cut planes, vapour flow, isosurfaces.
5:36▶2D Editor
From a P&ID drawing to a live board: upload, recognition, edit, connect to data, publish to IoT.
Modules
6:39▶Scenario Manager
Process scenarios for the reactor room, the Munendra scenarios, and the heating state machine with its cost comparison.
10:05▶Simulation Manager
Build and run systems at three fidelities (fast, PINN, CFD), studies, optimisation, Monte Carlo, and plant replay.
7:55▶Salt alternatives
The reactor and its cycle with another salt in place of SrBr₂: 15 salts from the NBS tables, checked against DLR's measurements — strontium chloride matches it.
7:08▶Comparison Manager
The real plant against the simulated one: statistics, heat maps, thresholds and forecasts.
8:05▶The PINN module
Physics-informed and port-Hamiltonian neural networks: the reactor's model, its constraints, a new run from the browser.
4:38▶Connectors
A device profile and its state machine, approval, and a connector deployed over SSH to a client's controller.
7:32▶The reactor's controller, connected
The connectors' new functions on the reactor's (simulated) controller: register map, state machine, fleet and rollouts.
3:46▶Deployment Manager
TechUPGRADE deployed from the platform to another server: the exact commit, built on the target, its own secrets.
Component owners
Further use cases
7:49▶Distillation column
A second test case: the hexane/toluene column, a theoretical model, with IoT, simulation, 3-D view and PINN.
8:43▶Composite cure — an experimental use
An additional, experimental use of TechUPGRADE for a different process: the autoclave cure of a carbon-epoxy part from arXiv 2011.13511 — model checked against the paper, live autoclave, scenarios, 3-D and a PINN.
8:28▶Solar cooling — an experimental use
TechUPGRADE's salt–gas principle driven by the sun: the BaCl₂–NH₃ solar refrigerator of Processes 13 (2025) 3708 — model checked against the paper's measurements, live day and night, scenarios, 3-D and a PINN.
12:00▶Vending machines
The first use case on the platform: a real vending machine twinned — fleet, live control board, scenarios on a test copy, alarms, its device owner, maintenance in production. Then the machine in 3D and its planogram: products in, holders, lanes and trays proposed, the machine filled in 3D.