SI Sensory™ and SI Sensor™: Certified Field Sensing for the Governance of AI Systems, Robots and Computing Sites, in which Each Sensor Has an Attested Identity, Signs Every Reading at Source, Carries a Calibration that Expires, Is Cross-Checked against Its Neighbours and Independent Physical Balances, Reports Its Own Tampering and Faults, Publishes at a Resolution that Protects Detail, and Whose Failure Can Only Tighten What It Governs

Inventor(s)

• Edward D. H. Wang, SI OrganizationFollow

Abstract

This disclosure describes SI Sensory, a certified sensing layer whose readings are relied on to govern AI systems, robots and computing sites, and the SI Sensor, the certified device that produces them. Each SI Sensor has an identity bound to attested hardware and signs every reading at the moment of measurement with its time, location and calibration state, so that neither the owner of the sensor nor the operator of the governed system can alter a reading without detection. Each sensor carries a calibration certificate, issued by an accredited laboratory, that states its accuracy and expires; a sensor past its calibration date has its readings marked as uncalibrated. Readings are cross-checked continuously against neighbouring sensors that measure the same quantity and against independent physical balances, such as total site power against the sum of module meters, water in against water out and evaporated, or heat removed against power consumed; a disagreement beyond tolerance is itself a finding. Sensors report their own faults, removal, enclosure opening, power loss and unusual changes in the signal. Readings are recorded with their digests in a public registry and are published at a declared resolution that serves the public without exposing commercial or personal detail. When a sensor that a limit, a commitment, a twin grade or an audit depends on fails, lapses or is found tampered, the system it governs may only hold or tighten until the reading is restored: the absence of a trusted reading can never be used to loosen any limit or to show that a commitment was met.

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Wang, Edward D. H., "SI Sensory™ and SI Sensor™: Certified Field Sensing for the Governance of AI Systems, Robots and Computing Sites, in which Each Sensor Has an Attested Identity, Signs Every Reading at Source, Carries a Calibration that Expires, Is Cross-Checked against Its Neighbours and Independent Physical Balances, Reports Its Own Tampering and Faults, Publishes at a Resolution that Protects Detail, and Whose Failure Can Only Tighten What It Governs", Technical Disclosure Commons, ()
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/12999