Turning Every Base Station into a Programmable RF Sensor Node — Real-Time Signal Intelligence from the RAN, Without Impact to RAN Operations
NEW YORK, March 16, 2026 — ODC, a Cerberus Capital Management portfolio company and developer of AI-native, software-defined RAN solutions, today announced the general availability of RANIQ, its Unified Edge Intelligence Platform for AI-native RAN, developed on NVIDIA AI AERIAL. RANIQ turns every deployed base station into a programmable RF sensor node and real-time AI inference engine — without requiring new RF hardware or spectrum, and with strict workload isolation on the DU/CU compute node, ensuring no impact to RAN real-time processing.
“RANIQ makes the intelligence produced by the RAN available to any application, in real time. For the first time, the RAN is not just a connectivity asset — it is an intelligent, distributed compute fabric for AI at the physical edge.”
THE MARKET PROBLEM
Today’s RAN exposes only aggregated telemetry through management interfaces. Critical signals — beam dynamics, channel state variations, interference patterns, scheduler events and IQ-layer data — remain inaccessible to real-time applications. The result: billions of dollars of sensing, analytics and AI capability embedded in deployed network infrastructure — going unused.
Existing interfaces — O-RAN xApps, RIC-based applications, SMO analytics and vendor telemetry — were designed for network management, not real-time inference. They aggregate and delay the very data that sensing, ML and ISR applications require. The gap is architectural, not incremental.
THE SOLUTION: RANIQ
RANIQ is co-resident with ODC’s RAN software on the same DU/CU compute node — sharing compute resources and timing with the radio stack. Non-intrusive data taps expose signal intelligence across the RAN pipeline — L1 through L3 — as structured real-time data accessible to applications through the RANIQ SDK, with strict workload partitioning from RAN real-time threads across L1 and L2.
RANIQ introduces a new software layer in the RAN architecture that exposes real-time RF intelligence to applications. RANIQ operates as an independent runtime on the DU/CU compute node — managing data access, resource isolation and DApp lifecycle. The RANIQ SDK provides the developer abstraction layer for the platform — exposing structured APIs for data access, resource management, application lifecycle and runtime interaction, while shielding developers from underlying platform interfaces. It is built on four integrated pillars:
01 Real-Time RAN Intelligence Fabric
Beam metrics, CSI, IQ windows, channel estimates, interference signatures, HARQ and mobility events — captured at the point of generation, before any upstream aggregation. Delivered as event-driven or poll-based streams to subscribing applications.
02 ML Inference Platform
Slot-aligned inference pipelines operating on real-time RF feature streams, co-resident on the same compute node as the RAN. Model registry with over-the-air hot-swap. Supports CPU and GPU inference paths.
03 Signal Processing Toolkit
Doppler estimation, interference classification, beamforming analytics and FFT pipelines exposed through the RANIQ SDK as high-level APIs — ODC R&D packaged for application and ML teams.
04 Cloud-Native DApp Runtime
Full lifecycle management, observability and auto-healing. Isolated or shared/pooled workload models. Fast-path cross-node data exchange. RANIQ Design Studio for DApp composition and management.
Stack placement: O-RU → [ RAN Stack L1·L2·L3 | RANIQ Runtime | DApps (via RANIQ SDK) ] → Applications — all co-resident on the same DU/CU compute node.
EXAMPLE USE CASES
RANIQ enables a new class of applications that act on the physics of the radio environment — in authorized deployments, under operator governance:
- RF Sensing & Perception — object detection, airspace monitoring and perimeter security using the RAN as a distributed sensor array, without additional hardware
- Anti-Jamming & Spectrum Resilience — real-time interference classification, jammer detection and adaptive null-steering, embedded natively in the network
- Real-Time ML Inference on RAN Data — PHY and L2 signal data driving predictive handover, interference mitigation and proactive load balancing
- Distributed ISR & Defense RF Sensing — wide-area RF awareness, emitter geolocation and battlefield RF sensing on commercial RAN infrastructure, in authorized deployments
- ISAC — leveraging existing 3GPP waveforms for opportunistic sensing concurrent with live mobile service
OPERATOR VALUE
Mobile operators already run the world’s largest distributed RF sensor network — RANIQ turns it into an intelligence platform, enabling new service opportunities using existing infrastructure:
Opportunity 01
RF Environment Intelligence
Spectrum monitoring, perimeter detection and airspace RF awareness — as managed services for airports, ports and critical infrastructure. Identifiable buyers, existing defense and government budgets.
Opportunity 02
Mobility & Spatial Analytics
Anonymized crowd flow, occupancy and asset movement intelligence for smart cities, transport operators and retail — privacy-preserving by architecture.
Opportunity 03
Industrial Safety & Spectrum
RF-based safety zone monitoring, equipment proximity detection and spectrum health services for private RAN operators in industrial environments — on existing compute, no new sensor infrastructure.
“Operators have a data asset that no cloud provider owns — real-time RF intelligence from a distributed network of radio nodes. RANIQ makes that asset accessible, structured and consumable.”
AVAILABILITY
RANIQ is generally available from March 2026 as a software deployment on ODC’s AI-RAN stack — no new RF hardware, antennas or spectrum required. ODC is engaging:
- Operators & enterprises evaluating AI-RAN deployments for RANIQ trials and integration
- Defense integrators & government agencies exploring distributed RF sensing and ISR on commercial RAN infrastructure, in authorized deployments
- Developers & domain experts in RF, signal processing or ML seeking SDK access to build on the platform
ABOUT ODC
ODC, a Cerberus Capital Management portfolio company, is a technology innovator delivering AI-native, software-defined RAN solutions. ODC’s platform enables operators to transform their networks into distributed AI inference engines, unlocking new revenue streams for the era of AI for the Physical World. Learn more at www.orandevco.com.
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