Who We Are
We’re a small, Pasadena-based collective of engineers, builders, and operators who give a shit—about the work, the mission, and the people we build for. We come from different technical backgrounds but share one core trait: everything we build is designed to scale and engineered to perform.
We’ve run projects across industries, cities, borders, and budgets—from gritty field deployments to high-spec software stacks—and we build things that last. When you work with us, you’re not getting an abstract platform, an enterprise "solution," or a glossy pitch deck. You’re getting a system that works, a team that shows up, and tools you can count on when reality hits.
While our roots are in Southern California—fire-prone, fast-moving, and demanding—we design our hardware and infrastructure to be flexible enough to deploy anywhere. Everything we make is modular, rugged, and honest. We don’t overpromise. We overbuild. And once a system goes live, we don’t disappear—we stay on-site and on-call to make sure it keeps working.
Situational Infrastructure
We focus on devices and technology that put eyes, telemetry, and actions in places where humans can’t safely go—or where you need real-time edge processing to filter noise so a human knows exactly what to do, right now.
To us, Situational Infrastructure means building hardware and networks that don't just sit there. They sense, interpret, react, and communicate. They are fast, embedded, and tuned to the chaos of real environments instead of theoretical lab edge cases. Whether it’s a fire starting in a canyon, a remote utility transformer spiking before failure, or an atmospheric shift before sunrise, we believe the first response shouldn’t depend on someone finally noticing a smell or a glow on a hillside.
The hazard should already be known.
This kind of infrastructure doesn’t look like what the legacy tech sector told us to expect. It’s not always massive, slow, or prohibitively expensive. Sometimes it’s a single advanced sensor node on a pole. Sometimes it’s a self-healing mesh network of them. Sometimes it’s a cluster of AI models running locally, watching a canyon breathe. It is deployable, modular infrastructure that sees context, allowing operators, utilities, and communities to act with absolute clarity instead of panic.
The Proving Grounds: Mojave Field Lab (MFL)
We don't just design these systems in a vacuum; we operate the exact commercial infrastructure required to sustain them.
The Mojave Field Lab (MFL) is our flagship field telemetry facility and infrastructure sandbox. Located under pristine desert skies, MFL is a centralized, high-reliability edge laboratory engineered for advanced astrophotography, space radio downlink, and extreme environmental testing.
Equipped with multi-gigabit fiber, conditioned utility power, permanent engineered support networks, and 24/7 on-site technical staff, MFL serves as the ultimate real-world stress test for our hardware. It is where our Firemark and Perilmark telemetry ecosystems are deployed to endure scorching daytime heat, high-velocity sandstorms, and freezing desert nights. By building and managing the underlying infrastructure sandbox ourselves, we provide researchers, hobbyists, and commercial aerospace entities with a bulletproof environment to execute their exact scientific and observational goals.
Global Logistics by Design
Ships to 200 countries?
Yeah, that’s exactly how we think, how we plan, and how we have always operated. The types of critical devices and infrastructure we build require an uncompromised level of global logistical thought. We maintain the international supply lines, the regulatory knowledge, and the specialized engineering network required to get custom deployments engineered, delivered, and operational on time—no matter how remote the coordinates.
Core Values
Yeah, we got those.give a shit
We don’t build for clicks, metrics, or trend cycles. We build for fire crews, infrastructure operators, and people who need tools that actually work. We take it personally. Giving a shit means we show up, we overprepare, and we keep fixing it until it’s right.
earn it every time
Trust isn’t granted. Whether we’re building a prototype for a hillside or deploying a hundred nodes across a city, we approach every project like we have something to prove — because we do. Every signal, every alert, every data point has to be earned.
keep it real
No hype, no vaporware. Just well-engineered, field-tested hardware and software that does what we say it does. We don’t oversell. We’d rather surprise you with what actually works.
No Lazy Work
We don’t copy-paste. We don’t cut corners. We know that the hard, annoying part is often where the real work is — so we do it. This is infrastructure. Someone’s going to rely on it. That matters.
Think Situational
Every deployment is different. Every risk is different. We design for the real world — not for ideal conditions. Modularity, adaptability, and failover aren’t features. They’re the baseline.
only human
We fail. We succeed. Things are forgotten. Steps can be missed. It’s about how we act in between. How do we react. How do we help.
overcommunicate
No one is allowed to say they didn’t get the memo, didn’t know, was unaware. We generate data which means we need to be really good at sharing it -especially with ourselves, our clients, our partners, everyone.
why 3m1
Because infrastructure isn’t optional when the stakes are real. 3M1 exists to build the things that keep working when conditions are bad, bandwidth is zero, or time is running out. We design systems that feel more like a tool than a product — the kind of systems you deploy once and trust for years, because you know exactly what they’re doing. We don’t believe in selling complexity or vapor. We believe in signal clarity, durability, and real‑world response. Every device we make is tuned to local reality — whether that means broadcasting over foothill Wi-Fi in a canyon, reporting heat and VOCs from a remote sensor in the desert, or capturing a powerline anomaly before it becomes a fire risk. Our hardware isn’t passive. It’s aware. It listens, watches, and tells you what matters, right now.
What makes 3M1 different is that we’re not just technologists — we’re responders. We’ve worked across industries and operating scales, from solo builds to multinational rollouts. But the thing we always come back to is this: when the signal comes in, it has to be right. That’s the north star. Our systems are designed with that urgency. They’re modular, fast to deploy, and made to blend in. They work offline. They boot instantly. They post locally first, and cloud only if you want it. When fire, weather, or uncertainty shows up, you don’t need a pretty dashboard — you need tactical truth. That’s what we make. Situational infrastructure. If you want to understand the state of a place — not just monitor it, but know it — this is how you do it. That’s why we’re here.