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KeiBeton — concrete that feels its own strain.

A structural-health-monitoring platform: a capacitive sensing mesh cast into concrete and rebar, reading local strain from the plate-capacitor relation C = εA / d as the material deforms.

What it does

KeiBeton embeds a capacitive sensing mesh directly into concrete and its rebar. As the structure strains, the local geometry of the embedded plates changes, and so does their capacitance — a direct, continuous read on structural health without drilling into the material after the fact.

Why it matters

Most structural-health monitoring is retrofit — strain gauges bonded to a surface, inspected on a schedule. KeiBeton is designed in at pour time, so the sensing mesh ages with the structure and reports continuously instead of on inspection cycles.

Compute core

The signal-processing core has parallel Rust and MAX implementations, gated for parity against each other — the MAX port measured faster on the lab's hardware. Firmware for the physical sensing wand is an early-stage, currently paused track.