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Software is eating the digital world. Knaq unlocks this same potential for the physical world

Knaq is a New York-based physical asset intelligence company combining purpose-built hardware with cloud-based analytics and AI to monitor critical infrastructure across airports, transit systems, hospitals, universities, and industrial facilities.

Four

unique, in-house developed hardware sensors

Thousands

of monitored units across our partner facilities

Millions

of operational data points collected daily

Our Story

Engineering first, hardware centric, and New York built

AI & software tools are only as powerful as the data you can feed into them. Knaq was created to bring the transformative power of software and AI to disconnected physical assets. Without focused hardware and software engineers collaborating to build tailored solutions, data would remain siloed, stuck on-prem, and inaccessible to facilities operators. Knaq is the most capable and intuitive intelligence platform for industrial assets because engineering rigor has been imprinted in their DNA from day one.

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Problem

Elevators, escalators, pumps, compressors, HVAC systems, and industrial machinery generate operational data every second of every day, but that data stays locked inside controllers, inaccessible to the people who manage those assets.

Hardware

Developing purpose-built sensing hardware is the only way to effectively get this data off of these assets. Knaq began by developing a single sensing technology that non-invasively pulls deep operational data off of any industrial equipment controller, regardless of age or manufacturer. Instead of hardwiring into a controller or collecting simple vibration data, Knaq pulls real-time data from controller inputs and transfers it to a complete suite of cloud-based software and AI tools.

Software

Data flowing from Knaq’s hardware is what enables its suite of software tools. A purpose-built web app, mobile app, and alerting capabilities enables facilities teams to keep their equipment running. Best in class AI powers predictive maintenance recommendations that prevent failures before they cause downtime.

Today

Knaq monitors thousands of units of equipment across world-class airports, transit systems, hospitals, water utilities, and other critical infrastructure, collecting, storing, and analyzing millions of data points per day. Their platform has grown into the leading intelligence layer for physical assets, and is trusted by some of the world’s most cutting edge facilities.

Our Team

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Knaq is built by hardware engineers, software engineers, machine learning specialists, and operations professionals working to bring intelligent monitoring to physical infrastructure.

We're hiring engineers across hardware, software, and machine learning to build leading-edge industrial IoT and AI systems.

The systems we build prevent failures that strand mobility-impaired riders. They catch degradation before it becomes emergency repairs. They give maintenance teams data to act proactively instead of reactively. And they need to work reliably in environments where consumer IoT solutions don't.

Read our client’s stories

Whether you are an engineer looking to join the team, a facility operator looking to monitor your equipment, or an investor interested in what we are building, we would love to hear from you.

Sound Transit

Sound Transit paired Knaq's real-time data platform with their own rigorous maintenance operation toreduce overall elevator and escalator unreported time by 90%, while using predictive alerts to find issues before they cause failures and trigger costly repairs.

Read the Sound Transit Case Study

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