Live
Vehicle Inventory
Count, locate, and reconcile every vehicle, every day. Bi-directional sync with your YMS — or stand-alone truth where no system exists.
App 01 · Live at a national operatorVehicle Inventory
Live in production
Industrial vision platform · Capture once — answer everything
Answers with photo proof.
KERNEL turns what drones, robot dogs, and fixed cameras see over an industrial site into location-tagged, photo-backed answers — delivered as apps on one shared platform, each on its own subscription.
Car Damage
In build
Tag detection
97.4%
Avg daily variance
0.9% vs YMS
How it works
One flight, gate to ledger.
- STAGE 01
Tag & pair
A $0.05 AprilTag goes on at receiving. One handheld scan pairs it to the VIN — identity solved for the vehicle's whole stay, retired at the exit gate.
- STAGE 02
Fly the yard
The dock launches a pre-programmed mission over every row — about 40 minutes for 1.22M ft², autonomous under FAA LAANC, no pilot on site.
- STAGE 03
Detect every tag
The tag-finder reads each tag from 35 m, decodes it, geolocates it, and scores its confidence. 97.4% detection, measured in production.
- STAGE 04
Snap to bay, reconcile
Every detection lands in its bay on the live map and is checked against your yard system. Mismatches queue as exceptions — each with its photo.
- STAGE 05
Answers & analytics
Counts, variance, dwell, exceptions — synced back bi-directionally, or standing alone as the source of truth where no system exists.
The problem
Every yard system drifts. Handheld scans and manual counts feed a ledger that slowly stops matching the ground — and nobody can prove by how much.
The platform
One platform. Many apps.
Capture a site once. Run the footage through processors that each find one thing. Deliver the answers as focused apps — customers subscribe only to the jobs they need.
01
Capture
Autonomous dock missions fly the site on schedule — the fewest flights needed to serve every subscribed app. Fixed cameras and ground robots join the same platform.
Drone · Dock · Fixed cam
02
Processors
Each processor finds one thing — the tag-finder, the damage-finder, the intrusion-finder. One footage stream feeds many finders, added over time.
Computer vision
03
Shared results
Every detection lands in one record — what, where, when, confidence, photo. The common shape that lets everything plug together.
One record format
04
Apps
One job per screen. Each app is its own subscription — a processor doesn't run unless the subscription is active. Sync with your systems, or stand alone.
Per app · Per siteThe unit of truth
Every answer carries its evidence.
No dashboards of noise. Each detection is a record tied to a location and the exact frame it came from — held outside the site's own systems.
WhatVEHICLE · TAG-0417
WhereBAY D-12 · 39.0997, −94.5786
When2026-06-04 · 09:42:17 CDT
Confidence0.97
FrameIMG_5417 · 35 M AGL · 7× ZOOM
If the ledger says D-14 and the record shows D-12, the exception queue gets both — with the photo attached. Independent, audit-ready truth your own system can be checked against.
Field proof
Measured in a working yard, not a lab.
Sixty days of daily missions over a live finished-vehicle yard — flown through weather, glare, and ~700 vehicle moves a day.
0.0%
Average daily variance vs the yard management system · outliers to 4.67% on weather days
0.0%
Tag detection · residual misses are obscured tags — placement, not the detector
0.0%
Localization · every detection geolocated and snapped to its bay
1.22M ft² flown daily
~700 vehicles/day
~2,500 tags in circulation
Daily mission ≈ 40 min
The apps
One job per screen.
Each app reads the shared results and presents one job. Subscribe per app, per site — and switch on more apps on the same flights as you need them.
In build
Car Damage
Condition at receiving — dents and scratches flagged with a confidence score and the frame as proof. Settles transit-damage disputes before they age.
App 02 · Same flights, new finderRoadmap
Yard Utilization
Bay occupancy, dwell, and overflow signals from data already collected — know when to open an offsite before it becomes an emergency.
App 03 · Pure analyticsRoadmap
Chain-of-Custody
An independent, photo-backed receiving-to-exit record for every vehicle — audit-grade custody for the assets you're paid to protect.
App 04 · Audit-gradeOperating principles
Built like an operator, not a demo.
A
Deterministic ID
A $0.05 laminated tag paired to the VIN at receiving and retired at the exit gate. Identity where aerial OCR is blind — cars don't label themselves.
B
Audit-grade evidence
Photo-backed records held outside the site's own systems — the independent account that can check whether the ledger is telling the truth.
C
Tenant isolation
Contractual today, architectural by design. No cross-tenant data flow without consent — your record is yours to use, not ours to share.
D
Asset-light by policy
Docks are customer-owned by default; remote operators fly from about $15 per flight. KERNEL sells software — hardware stays off both books.
FAQ
Asked by every yard we meet.
What is KERNEL?
An industrial-vision platform that turns what cameras see over a site into location-tagged, photo-backed answers, sold as per-app subscriptions. Vehicle Inventory is live today; Car Damage is next; Utilization and Chain-of-Custody follow — all on the same flights.
How is this different from RTLS tags?
Active-tag RTLS is a continuous dot: powered tags, per-site infrastructure, no photographs. KERNEL is a $0.05 laminated tag, one dock, and a verified photo record every day — and the only option that can stand up a pop-up offsite lot in days.
Do you replace our yard management system?
No — we verify it. KERNEL reconciles bi-directionally with your YMS and queues the exceptions, each with its photo. Where no system exists, KERNEL stands alone as the source of truth.
Who owns the dock, and who flies it?
You own the dock by default, or finance it through a third party. Missions run autonomously under FAA LAANC authorization, with remote operators from about $15 per flight. KERNEL sells software.
What about weather and airspace?
No-fly days are real and planned for — off-hours windows, a tested airspace playbook, and an operator partner who carries flight compliance. Our variance figures include the weather outliers.
Who sees our data?
You decide. Tenant isolation is contractual today and architectural by design — no cross-tenant data flow without your consent. One operator has already declined an OEM's request to see its record; that's the point.
Get started
See your yard the way the record sees it.
One dock, one app, one month — then decide with the evidence in front of you. Offsites activate in days.
The direct line
hello@kernelworks.ai