Our story

Safety should prevent harm, not explain it.

Kery ZK started with two beliefs. Protecting people should not mean watching them. And a device that saves lives should not cost so much that only a few can have it.

Why we exist

The road we did not want to take.

As the industry raced toward autonomy, it settled on a compromise. It told the public that safety needed constant surveillance, huge amounts of data, and computing stacks only a few could afford.

We think safety should be simple, local, and quiet. A reflex in the hardware that acts the moment something goes wrong, and nothing more. That is what we are building.

Three promises

Three promises, kept in hardware.

A reflex that never waits

Protection should not depend on a connection.

When something strays outside safe limits, lives depend on an instant answer. So the reflex lives on its own hardware, apart from the software that thinks, and it works when the network does not.

Protection without surveillance

Nobody should trade privacy for safety.

Our sensors read range, speed, and shape. Everything is processed on the device. No faces, no profiles, and no video streamed to a server somewhere else.

A necessity, not a luxury

Safety has to be affordable to matter.

A safety device priced out of reach protects no one. Simple, hardware-first design keeps the cost down, so the same protection can reach a school crossing and a freight yard alike.

Operational technology, not IoT

Built to govern physical risk, not merely connect devices.

IoT reports that something happened. Operational Technology monitors and governs physical systems where timing, safety states, and deterministic responses matter.

Kery ZK is building OT: local sensing, isolated safety logic, authenticated coordination, and fail-safe behavior designed around machines, infrastructure, and the people beside them.

The family

One architecture. A focused product and a broader roadmap.

NOD G-1 is the current product focus. Prometheus, Aigis, Heimdall, Hygieia, and Hephaestus are development concepts. Every other name below is a roadmap application, not a deployed product.

Current product focus

Crossings and school zonesNOD G-1 UrbanDesigned to verify an occupied crossing and issue a local safety cue. CorridorsNOD G-1 HighwayDesigned to detect a stopped vehicle and warn supported traffic upstream. Power lossNOD G-1 EmergencyDesigned to keep the local safety path available on battery reserve.

In development

Freight cabsPrometheusExplores camera-free driver state sensing and approved fleet interfaces. First respondersAigisExplores local motion, position, and biometric trend alerts for command. Difficult environmentsHeimdallExplores body-worn sensing, local cues, and a limited encrypted team link.

Hospitals and senior careHygieiaExplores camera-free fall and breathing alerts with a small patient-carried keychain token.

Military maintenanceHephaestusExplores local technical guidance and supported tool checks in the technician's view.

Concept roadmap

Ships and portsNereusCould provide local safety cues around berth and gantry movement.

Rail crossingsTerminusCould flag a vehicle stopped inside a protected crossing zone.

Banking sessionsMithrasCould support session continuity without storing an identifying image.

Airport rampsAnankeCould provide a local warning near aircraft and support vehicles.

Factory floorsTalosCould add a local safety cue where people and industrial machines share space.

Delivery fleetsHermesCould support blind-zone warnings and limited delivery event records.

Tower cranesDaedalusCould flag a moving load that enters a defined crew safety zone.

Long-range concepts

EvacuationsJanusCould coordinate authorized local traffic cues during a network outage.

SubstationsVulcanCould classify activity near a protected perimeter and request a local safety response.

RefineriesAsclepiusCould combine local condition sensing with a defined equipment safety cue.

Wildland fireChironCould support terrain awareness through smoke and local crew warnings.

MinesPloutonCould combine local geotechnical sensing with worker proximity warnings.

Correctional facilitiesAstraeaCould support camera-free breathing trends and passive signal monitoring.

Offshore windPoseidonCould warn operators when vessel movement threatens a protected subsea zone.

The founder

Ricky Kwok

Ricky served as a Cavalry Scout and a Combat Medic, in places where the difference between life and death was measured in seconds. Later he managed more than $26M in technical program requirements, building processes that leave no room for error.

Kery ZK grew out of both. In an autonomous world the seconds have shrunk to milliseconds, but the physical world is still waiting on human reaction time and on software that hesitates. He started the company to give the road a reflex of its own.

The gap to close is 1,500 ms. If the Golden Hour is the margin for medical survival, the sub-100 ms window is the margin for autonomous safety.
A wired reflex that acts on physics, instead of software that guesses.
A safety layer that stays a tool for protection, never a liability.

Ricky on LinkedIn

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Tell us what you are working on.

A city crossing, a fleet, a fireground, a port. If people and machines share the space, we would like to hear about it. The founding team reads every message.