Alchemi · programme 07
VIGIL
The structure that watches itself.
A clean-sheet Reinventy programme for a retrofittable sensing mesh that maps strain and damage across a surface, interpreted by sovereign edge AI.
CONCEPT-STAGE R&D · TOMOGRAPHIC COUPON VALIDATION IS THE NEXT GATE
Concept visualization · not a tested VIGIL article · no measured performance implied
01 · The leap
From isolated sensors to a continuous field.
Point sensors only report what happens where they are installed. VIGIL explores a conductive percolation layer with perimeter electrodes that turns an entire surface into a distributed sensor, reconstructing strain and damage through electrical tomography and deterministic edge interpretation.
02 · One surface, three ambitions
A nervous system for installed structures.
VIGIL's novelty path combines full-field sensing, practical retrofit and sovereign on-board interpretation in one traceable system.
Map
Reconstruct a distributed field of strain and damage rather than relying only on isolated measurement points.
Retrofit
Apply the sensing layer to existing assets or co-cure it into new composite structures.
Interpret
Run calibrated tomographic reconstruction and damage inference on deterministic sovereign edge AI.
03 · Born inside Alchemi
Infrastructure experience defines the defect. Alchemi governs the sensing field.
Reinventy combines conductive materials, structural engineering, sensing and edge AI. Alchemi coordinates percolation candidates, electrode layouts and inverse models while physical specimens anchor every reconstruction to known damage.
04 · Civil pathways first
Predictive maintenance begins with visibility.
Large civil assets offer broad, measurable routes to validate retrofit application, environmental stability and full-field interpretation.
Bridges & pipelines
Distributed monitoring across assets where point inspection leaves large blind areas.
Wind-turbine blades
Surface-scale strain and damage mapping for large composite structures.
Pressure vessels
Retrofittable monitoring around demanding cyclic loading environments.
Rail infrastructure
Continuous structural intelligence for predictive maintenance workflows.
05 · Evidence path
The map must find damage that is already known.
VIGIL advances only when a traceable specimen with controlled damage produces a repeatable tomographic field under declared environmental conditions.
Programme definition
Damage classes, geometry, environment and evidence boundary are declared.
Tomography coupons
Apply a sensing film, introduce known damage and reconstruct the first verified map.
Next gateEdge validation
Repeat across specimens and environments with deterministic on-board inference.
Demonstrator
Transfer the validated system to a bounded bridge, blade, vessel or rail asset.
Build the evidence
A partner for the first physical VIGIL campaign.
Reinventy is interested in infrastructure owners, structural-health-monitoring laboratories, coating partners and edge-AI integrators.