We connect the physical edge of your business (sensors, machines, vehicles, buildings) to AI that understands them and automations that act. Decisions happen in milliseconds, not meetings.
You'll talk to Dwayne, the founderSame-day response, straight from the person who builds it.
Drag the network. Every point is a device.
The signal path
Every connected business runs on the same loop. Scroll to follow a single reading from a sensor on the factory floor all the way to a finished action in your business systems.
Industrial sensors, cameras, PLCs, gateways and microcontrollers. We specify, prototype and deploy the hardware layer, from ESP32 and Raspberry Pi through to NVIDIA Jetson edge AI and ruggedised industrial gateways. Retrofit first: most of your existing equipment can join the conversation.
MQTT, OPC UA, Modbus, LoRaWAN, 5G and Wi-Fi 6, streaming into Azure IoT, AWS IoT Core or your own broker. Every device gets its own identity, traffic is encrypted end to end, and the whole fleet is visible from a single pane.
Computer vision, anomaly detection and predictive models run on-device when milliseconds matter, while agentic AI in the cloud reads the whole fleet, reasons across history, and explains what it found in plain language your team can trust.
Work orders raised in ServiceNow, stock moved in your ERP, crews dispatched, customers told before they notice. n8n, Power Automate and custom agents carry the decision all the way through, with humans in the loop exactly where you want them.
Live floor simulation
Pick an environment, then inject a fault. Watch the edge pick it up, the AI diagnose it, and the automations fix it before anyone has to pick up a phone.
ILLUSTRATIVE SIMULATION RUNNING IN YOUR BROWSER. REAL DEPLOYMENTS ARE TUNED TO YOUR ASSETS.
Real people, real hardware
No offshore handoffs. No account manager playing telephone between you and the engineers. The same person who walks your site specifies the kit, builds it, carries it through your door and switches it on.
The frontier stack
Most projects stall at the seams: the hardware vendor blames the network, the network blames the cloud, the cloud blames the ERP. We own the whole chain, so there are no seams to fall through.
Rapid prototypes to production fleets, built for New Zealand conditions.
Connectivity and device management that scales from ten devices to ten thousand.
Models that earn their place on the floor, measured against a real baseline.
The last mile, where insight turns into money saved and customers kept.
Where you'll find me
This is my desk. It's where I do the thinking, the planning and a good share of the hands-on build work, and it's usually where I'll be when you call.
Your systems don't run from here. They run on your site, in your cloud or on hardware you own, built to keep going whether I'm at my desk or not.
What you get from this desk is the person behind them: someone who knows how your system was put together, why each decision was made, and how to change it when your business does. If something needs a look, you won't be filling in a ticket form and waiting in a queue. You'll be talking to me.
Run your numbers
Move the sliders to match your operation. The maths is simple, and usually sobering.
Illustrative estimate based only on the inputs above, in NZD. We will build a proper baseline from your own maintenance data during discovery.
How we get you there
We walk the floor with you, map your assets and existing signals, and pick the one problem where a fast win will matter most.
A working sensor-to-action loop on a real asset: hardware fitted, data flowing, a model watching, an automation ready to fire.
We measure against a baseline you agree with, so the business case is built on your numbers, not a vendor slide.
Roll out across the fleet with device management, security, governance and your team trained to run it.
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A note from the founder
Most technology projects don't fail because of the technology. They fail in the gaps between people: the hardware supplier, the integrator, the cloud team and the business, each holding one piece of the puzzle.
I started DataForge on a simple belief: technology should be built around the way people and organisations actually work, not bent to fit a vendor's defaults. Frontier takes that belief all the way to the factory floor, the paddock and the plant room.
When you work with us, you won't be passed from team to team. You'll talk to me, we'll walk your site together, and we'll build something your people actually want to use. If you've got a machine, a process or a headache that you think could run smarter, I'd genuinely like to hear about it.
Questions
Usually not. Most equipment can be retrofitted with external sensors or connected through existing PLCs and controllers using protocols such as Modbus and OPC UA. We start with what you already own.
Both, for different jobs. Edge AI handles decisions that need millisecond response, offline resilience or privacy, such as machine vision. Cloud AI handles fleet-wide learning, long-term trends and agentic reasoning across your business systems.
Anything with an API. Common targets include ServiceNow, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce, Microsoft Teams and maintenance systems, orchestrated with n8n, Power Automate or custom AI agents.
Every device gets its own identity and certificate, traffic is encrypted end to end, operational networks are segmented from corporate IT, and firmware is updated over the air through a managed pipeline.
Your move
Book 30 minutes with Dwayne. Bring one machine, one process or one headache, and we'll sketch the loop that fixes it together.
Tell us what you're working on. We'll identify your top three AI opportunities, outline what data and infrastructure you need, and recommend the right approach, at no cost.