About · Edge Orbital
From sensor fusion vans in the Arizona desert to the world’s first metropolitan WiFi network to a patent-pending mesh that lets your people see you before, not after.
Edge Orbital is building infrastructure for the human mesh. One protocol. One platform. The connectivity is the business model. The spatial intelligence is the moat. The dataset is the asset.
Founder
Three decades building wireless infrastructure that nobody thought was possible. Patent-pending sync. $350M border security experience. Now building the radar layer for the people you already trust to notice.
Built a sensor-fusion van integrating infrared, ultrasonic, and GPS for automated road-surface analysis. The first taste of edge-deployed sensor networks.
Designed and deployed the world’s first metropolitan WiFi network — Arizona — before most people had heard of wireless internet.
U.S. Patent Application 20040031056 — foundational wireless networking IP that informed years of commercial deployment.
Led Sprocket Communications through strategic 5G partnerships and developed a $350M expansion plan. Carrier-grade infrastructure at scale; deep procurement and contract experience that informs Edge Orbital’s government and B2B2C work today.
Built the technical foundation that made the acquisition possible.
Took a municipal role to understand city-scale infrastructure from the inside — networking, procurement, regulation, and the real constraints of government IT.
Edge Orbital Sync — patent-pending synchronization that lets nearby phones and dedicated nodes route safety traffic without colliding. From terrestrial mesh through cislunar relay. Non-provisional CIP #19/553,084.
Loyola University New Orleans (1989–93) — Political Science / Pre-Law. St. Thomas University School of Law (1993–94). The regulatory and contract expertise that gives Edge Orbital its procurement edge.
The human mesh is also infrastructure that supports the national interest. Critical-infrastructure protection — substations, water systems, distribution poles — is a public-safety problem disguised as a technical one. The same sensing fabric that lets a campus see a missing roommate lets a co-op see a copper-theft crew before the wire is cut.
Thesis
Three convictions hold this company together, and each one points at a category the existing American infrastructure stack has under-served for thirty years.
The 74,000 substations, 900+ rural electric cooperatives, the small water systems, the distribution-pole networks — these are not just assets. They are the physical surface on which everyday safety depends. When a coordinated copper-theft crew strips a substation of tens of thousands of dollars of conductor and takes a county dark for a week, the consequence is a hospital backup-generator decision and a senior in a hot apartment. When an unattended distribution corridor lets a saboteur reach a transformer, the consequence is the lead of the next news cycle. Public safety is an information problem — and most of the infrastructure that creates the most risk has the least visibility.
Edge Orbital’s sensing fabric does the same job at a campus walk-home corridor that it does at a rural substation perimeter. Same Edge Orbital Sync protocol, same edge-fusion stack, same see-before, not see-after posture. That dual-use property is not a marketing convenience — it is how a single hardware platform earns its way to scale. The consumer-side App Store presence funds the deployment density that makes the operator-side critical-infrastructure pilots viable. One protocol surface, multiple buyer surfaces, no apology for serving both.
The country’s critical infrastructure was built in a different industrial era and instrumented in an even older one. Bringing the pole-mounted distributed-sensing tier up to a modern resilience standard — against organized copper theft, against coordinated substation attacks, against the lone-worker incidents the smaller utilities have always absorbed silently — is a manufacturing problem first and a software problem second. We chose the pole as the unit of work because that is where the visibility gap is, where the smaller-utility budget can clear, and where domestic deployment economics actually pencil out.
The infrastructure CV above isn’t decoration. The world’s first metropolitan WiFi network, deployed in Arizona in 1997, taught that wireless coverage is fundamentally a logistics problem. The $350M border-security work at Sprocket taught that government and critical-infrastructure procurement is a contract-discipline problem. A decade as the City of New Orleans network architect taught that municipal IT lives or dies on whether the operator can answer what just happened in real time, with confidence. Edge Orbital is the company those three lessons converge on: a continuous-visibility layer over the assets and the people the existing market under-serves, built by the operator who has been waiting thirty years for the hardware to be possible.
If the country needs distributed sensing at the pole — and it does — then someone has to build it for the buyers and the budgets that actually exist. We’re building it for them. That is what supporting the national interest looks like at this layer of the stack.
Company
Delaware C-Corp
Incorporation
New Orleans, LA
Headquarters
$102K
Self-funded
Seed
Stage · raising $3M on $12M cap
For the long-form founder’s note on the thirty-three-year arc and the pivot that brought us here: Atoms at the Pole.
Investors, campus partners, hardware partners — we’re ready to talk.