Across Europe, organisations are deploying more autonomous and distributed assets than ever before. UAVs patrol borders. Unmanned surface vessels monitor the Baltic. Backup-power stations keep hospitals and water utilities running. Each of these assets produces a torrent of sensor data, and most of it is unused.
The reason is simple. Every device speaks a different protocol. Each vendor brings its own dashboard. The data sits in silos, and operators end up switching between five different tools to see what is actually happening in the field.
We started building Aidax to fix that.
What Aidax does
Aidax is a device-agnostic, edge-to-cloud data intelligence platform. It collects data from any sensor, across any vendor, at the edge, fuses it with external feeds (device sensors, AIS, weather, satellite, customer-specific sources), and delivers a live, unified situational picture to the people who need to act on it.
The platform has three layers:
- Operator Cockpit. Live sensor feeds, configurable alerts, role-based views. Works over 4G/5G, Starlink or local LAN, including in degraded-link environments.
- Intelligence Dashboard. Ad-hoc analytics, anomaly detection and predictive signals for maintenance, command, operations and logistics teams.
- Data Products API. Real-time event streams and aggregated data products that feed 3rd party systems and partner ecosystems directly, without bespoke integration work.
The core architectural choice is device-agnosticism. Customers should not have to be locked into a single vendor’s ecosystem to make use of their own operational data. Yet that is the default position the market has handed them.
Why now
Three forces have made this problem urgent across Europe in 2026.
Defence spending has reached an inflection point. All NATO allies hit the 2 % of GDP target this year, and at the 2025 Hague Summit the alliance committed to 5 % by 2035. European NATO members and Canada will spend over USD 607 billion on defence in 2026, with a growing share going into autonomous systems, edge AI and tactical situational awareness.
The Baltic has become a structural concern. NATO’s Baltic Sentry, launched in January 2025, and Task Force X-Baltic (which Finland and seven other allies committed to transition into national capabilities in February 2026) have made persistent surveillance of undersea cables and maritime traffic a continuous operational mission, not a peacetime drill.
Critical infrastructure regulation is forcing action. Under the EU’s CER directive (in force in Finland since 1 July 2025), every member state must formally identify its critical entities by 17 July 2026. Operators of distributed assets like backup-power stations, substations and water utilities are now required to demonstrate resilience and situational awareness across portfolios that were never designed to be monitored that way.
Aidax was designed for exactly this moment.
Where we are
Aidax development is supported by Business Finland’s Sprint programme through autumn 2026. Our MVP, covering edge data collection, the central data platform and operator interfaces, will be production-ready in 2026.
In parallel, we are in active discussions with several pilot partners. We are exploring how Aidax could complement their offerings in the Baltic region.
We accept three to five pilots. Late 2026 and early 2027 will be about validation in real operating environments. From there, we move into commercial deployments.
What we are looking for
If you are an operator, integrator or partner working on situational awareness for unmanned systems, maritime patrol or critical infrastructure, and you are tired of building yet another vendor-specific integration, we would like to hear from you. We are particularly interested in:
- Customers in defence, border surveillance, maritime patrol or critical-infrastructure protection who want to pilot a heterogeneous data platform in late 2026 or early 2027.
- Defence and energy-sector integrators who could embed Aidax as a white-label or co-branded layer in larger system deliveries.
Get in touch at mika.naatula@summain.com or sami.kahkonen@summain.com. We would love to share what we are building, and learn what you would want from it.