OT networks, SCADA backhaul, edge security, and AI agents that keep eyes on all of it around the clock. A decade in the Piceance and Uinta basins. We build the infrastructure — you run the operation.
End-to-end carriage of poll/response, deadbanded analog, and DNP3 & Modbus traffic across heterogeneous radios, microwave, fiber, and LEO. We build it so your control room never knows which path it took.
Greenfield and brownfield OT segmentation, Purdue model implementation, IDMZ design, jump-host hardening, and zone/conduit modelling that survives the auditor and the backhoe.
Path-survey, link-budget, frequency coordination, tower load, NEPA-aware siting, FreedomFi/CBRS, 900 MHz licensed and unlicensed PtMP/PtP. We climb. We splice. We document.
LEO as primary, secondary, or burst path. Bonded uplinks, policy-based routing, CGNAT mitigation, and engineered failover so SCADA never wonders which sky it's pointed at.
Site-templated edge security, IPS tuning, OT-aware allow-listing, VLAN segmentation, posture-checked client VPN, and the dashboards your SOC actually opens.
Day-1 OT/IT integration playbooks for acquired pads & gathering systems. We inventory the unknown, draw the "as-found" vs "as-deeded" map, and execute the cut-over inside your ops window.
This is what it looks like when we instrument a basin. Fake data, real architecture. DNP3 polling, leak-watch agents, the whole stack. Poke around. Chase a packet from a wellhead to the control room.
No pitch decks. No "AI strategy workshops." We ship agents that actually run — supervisors, workers, evaluators. They use tools, keep ledgers, and every action is replayable. Built for places where being wrong means a phone call you don't want to get.
aerobotical — AI & systems engineering for oil & gas operators.
aerobotical [scada | ot | radio | starlink | edge | ma-cutover]
[--basin <piceance|uinta|other>]
[--mode design | build | operate]
[--ai cowden::lab]
We move bits from wellheads to control rooms — across microwave hops, SD-WAN edges, SCADA historians — and turn them into actions a human (or an agent) can actually take. That's the whole job.
Started with Colorado's first wireless ISP. Spent the last decade-plus in the Piceance and Uinta basins building the OT plumbing that nobody writes press releases about but everybody's production depends on.
The R&D arm — Cowden Technologies — builds proprietary drone-deployed infrastructure inspection systems, and is an NVIDIA Inception partner.
--design Path-survey, link-budget, OT topology, IDMZ --build Tower work, splicing, rack & stack, cut-overs --operate 24/7 monitoring, agentic alerting, on-call --audit ISA-62443, NERC-CIP gap analyses --ma Acquired-asset OT inventory & integration
services(7) · arena(7) · lab(7) · cowden(8)
aerobotical, llc · grand junction, co · hq.aerobotical.io
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co-founded built first aerobotical SCADA backhaul cowden tech lab + agentic
colorado's enterprise llc formed standardized launched · systems ·
first WISP OT for an · piceance across multi- NVIDIA arena live
operator & uinta operator Inception
basins portfolio
Where the field problems go to get solved. Cowden is the R&D arm — autonomous inspection, agentic AI, and pre-production hardware that gets tested in the basins before it gets a datasheet.
NVIDIA Inception partner. Patented drone-deployed infrastructure inspection.
Autonomous, repeatable inspection of energy infrastructure using uncrewed aerial vehicles with sensor-fusion assisted defect detection. Built in the basins, running in production.
$ cowden inspect --asset gathering-line --sector NW-7
[ok] flight-plan generated ░░░░░░░░░░ 118 wp
[ok] perception model loaded ░░░░░░░░░░ cv-gas-v3
[ok] mission armed ░░░░░░░░░░ ready
[ok] auditor.attached ledger=on chain=replay-ok
> launch _
First conversation is free, NDA on arrival. Usually starts with a path survey or a SCADA inventory. We're on mountain time.
$ ssh [email protected] Welcome to AEROBOTICAL // MIDNIGHT_GRID Last login: 03:14:07 MDT from basin-west ops@hq:~$ status --all scada-backhaul ........ [ok] ot-edge ............... [ok] cowden-lab ............ [ok] agents.ledger ......... [ok] ops@hq:~$ _