The SmartPOD
Smart Protection. Predictive Power. Minimal Maintenance.
Current Challenges with System Maintenance
- Current maintenance practices require extensive manual intervention
- Maintainers often perform multi-step maintenance procedures, requiring numerous pieces of support equipment
- Maintenance intervals occur monthly on a variety of assets
- Allowing opportunity for errors or missed maintenance intervals due to manual nature of work
- Costly labor and equipment
- Environmental, Health, and Safety Concerns
Introducing The SmartPOD
The Zulu Pods GUARDIAN SmartPOD is an intelligent, compact, and modular system designed to protect mission-critical systems from degradation. It integrates edge-level sensing, predictive software, and customizable fluid delivery to enable automated, long-duration protection. This makes it ideal for aircraft, vehicles, fuel cells, and storage environments.
Core Capabilities
Automated Asset Protection
- Automates maintenance activates providing “set it and forget it” protection
- Delivers fluids, such as aerospace-grade oils, biocides, and corrosion preventive compounds
- Installs using existing access ports; no retrofit required
- Ideal for operation with gearboxes, transmissions, APUs, fuel cells, and storage containers
Custom Fluid Delivery
- Fluids delivered using customizable pressure vessels (size, shape, pressure, and fluid)
- Wide variety of hose and nozzle configurations available
- System analysis and experimental validation
Sensor-Driven Intelligence
- Onboard sensor array
- Temperature
- Humidity
- Salt concentration
- Analysis of environmental data
- Predictive maintenance directives generated
SmartPOD Benefits
- Very simple tool, increasing maintainers capabilities
- 100% reliable protection
- Less than 15 minute installation
- Easy user interface
- Minimize manual maintenance intervention for system preservation
- Eliminate errors and missed maintenance intervals
- Reducing cost and improving asset availability
Existing access ports utilized to fog fluids into systems, preventing degradation.
- The GUARDIAN SmartPOD provides nearly maintenance-free protection for up to 6 months
- SmartPODs deliver fluids to prevent damage to your hardware during operation, transit, and storage
- Form factor and fluid agnostic
- SmartPODs are available in a variety of sizes, with any custom or commercially available fluid
- Custom designs also available
Current Defense Applications
F-35 System Maintenance
V-22 Fuel Cell Preservation
