Advancing the vision of tunable, self-aware infrastructure - Smart Dust creates a “breathing aircraft” where every surface senses, communicates, and heals itself through ambient energy. 17-21 November 2025 • DWC, Dubai Airshow Site

(PRUnderground) November 11th, 2025

EPIC Semiconductors Inc., a Canadian pioneer in zero-power semiconductor systems, will debut its Smart Dust technology at the Dubai Airshow 2025, demonstrating the future of ultra-resilient, non-RF, non-jammable communication and intelligent digital-twin architectures for aviation and aerospace defence.

At a time when the U.S. military and global aerospace sectors are seeking low-frequency, always-on, and non-emissive communications for secure mission-critical operations, EPIC’s Smart Dust introduces a new operational paradigm. The technology functions entirely without batteries or conventional RF transmissions, harvesting ambient energy to enable continuous situational awareness and autonomous component-level intelligence — a key enabler for resilient, self-healing systems in contested and electromagnetically complex environments.

A New Communication Frontier: Beyond RF

Conventional RF-based communications remain vulnerable to jamming, interception, and denial-of-service threats. In contrast, EPIC’s Smart Dust operates in low-frequency, pre-quantum domains — a spectral region that is unlistenable, unspoofable, and undetectable.
This advancement aligns with DARPA’s long-standing interest in “Assured PNT” (Position, Navigation & Timing) and C4ISR resilience, where the need for passive, persistent awareness outweighs raw transmission power.

EPIC’s chips enable non-RF “whisper networks” that can function even within Faraday cages, metallic fuselages, or underwater environments — extending communications to places where radio waves cannot penetrate.

“We’re realizing the dream of a self-aware infrastructure — where every structural component, every wing rib, every actuator becomes a node in a living digital organism,” EPIC Semiconductors.
“Our Smart Dust doesn’t just monitor the aircraft; it is the aircraft’s nervous system.”

Digital Twins That Never Sleep

EPIC’s Smart Dust transforms physical components into digital twins with persistent memory, continuously measuring vibration, strain, temperature, and electromagnetic behavior without consuming power.
Each node acts as a microsatellite for its host component, maintaining secure intra-system communication through EPIC’s entanglement-based energy-transfer protocol — a breakthrough beyond conventional wireless telemetry.

In aerospace applications, this creates a living aircraft skin — where every mechanical and electronic part is self-aware, self-reporting, and self-healing through predictive maintenance. The result is zero-downtime airframes, real-time fleet health monitoring, and fail-silent resilience — a vision deeply aligned with U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and DARPA’s Mosaic Warfare initiatives.

Operational Relevance for Modern Defence

As modern battlefields move toward electromagnetic manoeuvre warfare, where spectrum dominance determines survival, EPIC’s system represents a decisive leap forward in non-emissive situational intelligence.
Its non-RF, non-acoustic sensing mesh provides tactical advantage through:

• Zero-Power Persistent Monitoring — autonomous data capture for decades without maintenance.
• Non-Emissive Communication — impervious to jamming or interception.
• Passive Localization & Self-Authentication — each node forms an independent, tamper-proof verification layer.
• Pre-Quantum Security — information transfer through field coupling mechanisms immune to signal injection.

These attributes align with the U.S. Department of Defense’s Low-Observable, Low-Emission Systems (LOLES) strategy and DARPA’s Electronics Resurgence Initiative, emphasizing spectrum-independent survivability.

Aviation Health and the Rise of Micro-Satellites on Every Component

In modern aircraft, Smart Dust acts as an invisible constellation of micro-satellites — monitoring turbine blades, landing gear actuators, flight control servos, and composite structures at the microscopic level.
Data from each node is aggregated by a gateway intelligence module, forming a unified operational picture — a digital twin of the airframe in real time, down to the molecular scale.

This distributed intelligence approach mirrors Modon’s “Breathing Infrastructure” vision, in which adaptive environments sense, communicate, and respond to physical and electromagnetic changes — creating tunable “RF sanctuaries” that maintain safe corridors for authorized communication while neutralizing spoofing and jamming threats.

A Strategic Partner in Defence Innovation

EPIC’s participation in the Dubai Airshow underscores its expanding collaborations with defence innovation agencies and forward-leaning industrial partners across North America, the Middle East, and Europe.
Having demonstrated success in Canada’s IDEaS program, engagements with DARPA, USSOCOM, and the U.S. Army Futures Command, EPIC now extends its technology to aviation resilience and electromagnetic sovereignty — a cornerstone for future smart bases, smart aircraft, and smart logistics.

About EPIC Semiconductors

Founded in Vancouver, Canada, EPIC Semiconductors Inc. is a fabless deep-tech company developing a new class of battery-free, RF-free, AI-integrated semiconductor systems.
Its flagship Smart Dust technology enables ultra-miniaturized, always-on sensors that harvest ambient energy, perform edge intelligence, and communicate securely in any medium — air, water, metal, or biological tissue.
EPIC’s goal is to unlock mission-critical data where conventional electronics fail — enabling invisible, autonomous intelligence from atoms to aircraft.

For more information, visit: www.epic-semiconductors.com

About EPIC Semiconductors

EPIC Semiconductors is a Canadian-based technology company pioneering a new category of energy-autonomous semiconductors purpose-built for mission-critical defense applications. Its Smart Dust platform integrates sensing, AI, energy harvesting, and secure communication — all without batteries, antennas, or RF transmission. Engineered for performance in metal-dense, underwater, and high-interference environments, EPIC’s technology enables real-time tracking, monitoring, and decision support where conventional systems fail. EPIC’s solutions are designed to strengthen situational awareness, operational readiness, and resilience across a wide range of defense and security scenarios.

For more information or media inquiries, contact:
info@epic-semiconductors.com

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