Polyrhythm Delivers Industrial IoT Sensor System

Polyrhythm Software has completed development of a production-ready industrial IoT sensor system for commercial deployment. The system integrates multiple sensor types and sensor-fusion software for real-world operating environments.

DAYTON, Ohio, October 21, 2024. Polyrhythm Software, LLC has completed development of a production-ready industrial IoT sensor system for commercial deployment. The device integrates multiple sensor types, including multiple infrared sensors. It uses sensor-fusion software to support industrial applications in real operating environments.

The system brings together sensor integration, data fusion, embedded software, supporting software, field testing, and production-transition discipline. Polyrhythm’s work focused on the complete device capability. That means how the sensors operate together, how data is processed, how the system behaves in the field, and how the product can be manufactured, deployed, monitored, and sustained.

This is not a lab prototype or a one-off demonstration. The system is ready for production transition.

Industrial IoT products fail when hardware, software, data, and deployment are treated as separate problems. Polyrhythm’s approach treats them as one system. Multiple onboard sensors collect data from the operating environment. The software fuses those inputs into useful outputs for industrial users. The deployment architecture supports operation beyond a single device, allowing units to be configured, monitored, updated, and supported in the field.

That deployment view matters because connected devices are not just sensors with a network port. NIST’s Cybersecurity for IoT Program treats IoT risk across devices, data, supporting systems, and users. For a commercial sensor product, the engineering baseline has to cover more than signal quality. It also has to support configuration control, update paths, monitoring, and enough evidence to understand behavior after devices leave the lab.

“Industrial sensing is not just about collecting data,” said John Farrier, founder of Polyrhythm Software. “The hard part is turning imperfect real-world sensor inputs into reliable system behavior. That takes sensor knowledge, software discipline, algorithm development, and field-test experience.”

The project demonstrates Polyrhythm’s ability to move from concept to production-ready product architecture. The company integrated commercial sensor hardware. It developed the supporting algorithms and software. It supported prototype validation, conducted field testing, and prepared the system for transition into manufacturing.

Polyrhythm is not serving as the production manufacturer. The company’s role is to deliver the tested prototype, software, algorithms, architecture, and technical baseline needed for production and deployment.

The effort builds on decades of experience in RF analysis, sensor systems, algorithm development, embedded software, field testing, and deployed system engineering. The application is commercial, but the engineering standard is familiar. Control the interfaces. Validate the behavior. Build for deployment. Leave behind a system that can be sustained.

A production-ready industrial IoT sensor system also needs practical handoff discipline. The receiving team needs to know what was tested. It needs to know which assumptions were proven in the field. It needs to know how the software is built, how the sensor configuration is managed, and what must be controlled during manufacturing. Without that record, production transition turns into rediscovery.

The field-test work was a key part of that record. Real sites create noise, odd angles, changing heat patterns, and support limits that lab runs may miss. Testing the device in those conditions helped shape the algorithms, the software behavior, and the production baseline.

“This is where Polyrhythm fits,” Farrier said. “We build the engineering bridge between a promising technical idea and a product that can survive contact with the field.”

About Polyrhythm Software

Polyrhythm Software, LLC builds software and systems for customers that need disciplined engineering and fieldable results. Based in Dayton, Ohio, Polyrhythm works across sensors, embedded software, modeling and simulation, flight-test support, secure infrastructure, and hard systems software where architecture, algorithms, interfaces, evidence, and delivery discipline matter.