Pre-seed · El Segundo, CA

Safety, security and connectivity — rented by the tower.

IronNode brings full-site AI safety, security and connectivity to construction — a rented fleet of solar towers, cameras and edge AI, deployed day one on bare dirt, before there's power or a network. Dual-use for government and first responders.

~1,069

US construction worker deaths in 2024 — one every ~8 hours

$2B+

Equipment & copper theft per year; only ~20% recovered

0

Power or network on a greenfield jobsite

Day 1

IronNode goes live — on bare dirt, in under 3 minutes

The problem

Construction's costly blind spot

Jobsites need safety, security, connectivity and oversight from day one. Today they get it piecemeal, late, or not at all.

A death every ~8 hours

US construction saw ~1,069 worker deaths in 2024. Falls are the #1 cause and the most-cited OSHA violation — yet safety today is still manual, sampled and reactive.

Theft bleeds every project

Equipment and copper theft top $2B a year; only ~20% is recovered, adding 1–5% to project cost. Bare sites are soft targets the moment the crews go home.

Guards & CCTV don't fit the dirt

Greenfield sites have no power and no network. Guards run thousands per month; trailer CCTV needs a truck and records the crime instead of preventing it.

Blind to risk & progress

GCs lack real-time eyes on safety, security and schedule — so workers-comp premiums, fraud and disputes are hard to prevent, and harder to prove.

AI jobsite safety

From camera to correction, in seconds

The same towers that secure the site run edge AI that catches hazards before an inspector — or a fall — ever happens.

01

Capture

Towers and COTS cameras watch the whole site, 24/7 — even off-grid.

02

Detect

Edge AI spots the hazard — scaffolding with no guardrail — in seconds.

03

Verify

Confidence scoring and human review filter out false alarms.

04

Alert

The safety manager gets a phone push: photo, hazard type, GPS.

05

Resolve

The fix is confirmed and time-stamped — an audit trail for OSHA and insurers.

Worked example

A crew erects scaffolding without guardrails. IronNode flags it in under 10 seconds and pushes a clip, hazard type and GPS to the safety lead — then logs the fix. Before an inspector, or a fall, ever happens.

Detects Falls Fall protection PPE / hard hats Scaffolding Struck-by zones Unauthorized access
The product

Proven hardware, aimed at the jobsite

Built on the eTower architecture co-developed for DeWalt / Stanley Black & Decker — seven years and multiple patented generations of field-proven design.

IronNode eTower — deployed solar tower with AI camera masthead, duotoned in the steel accent
6m carbon mast50 mph wind-rated, sensor-ready masthead
Solar + dual battery1.5 kWh on board; multi-day autonomous runtime
Modular payload busPTZ + thermal cameras, Starlink/5G, mesh, sensors
<3 min deployPatented gas-strut, self-leveling, one person
Van-portableCase format — no trailer, no tow license
Fleet telemetryHealth, GPS, geofence and tamper alerts, per unit

The hardware is de-risked. This round funds the AI-safety software and the camera + connectivity payload — not inventing a tower.

Plans

Rent the tower, get the outcome

Every jobsite is a multi-tower, multi-month recurring contract. Hardware stays on our balance sheet — you pay per tower, per month.

Secure

Theft & security

Contact for pricingper tower / month

  • Solar tower + AI cameras
  • Cloud video & mobile app
  • Theft & intrusion alerts
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Safety+

Safety + oversight

Contact for pricingper tower / month

  • Everything in Secure
  • AI jobsite-safety detection
  • OSHA alerts + progress tracking
  • Live monitoring
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Connect+

Full-site connectivity

Contact for pricingper tower / month

  • Everything in Safety+
  • Starlink / 5G uplink
  • Site-wide mesh WiFi & IoT data
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Multi-site GC contracts · fleet intelligence compounds — every site sharpens detection across the portfolio.

Who it's for

Built for the bare-dirt site — dual-use beyond it

Construction is the beachhead. The same rented, off-grid tower serves anywhere power and network don't yet reach.

Construction

Safety, theft, connectivity and progress — from day one on bare dirt.

Beachhead

Government

Facilities, borders, public works and campuses that need eyes fast.

Dual-use

First responders

Rapid-deploy comms and eyes for incidents, wildfire and disaster.

Dual-use

Utilities & infra

Substations, solar farms and remote assets, monitored off-grid.

Dual-use
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Put a tower on your site

We're running 5–8 paid, full-site pilots with SoCal GCs and ENR contractors this year. Tell us about your site and we'll scope a deployment.