What is Phygrid?
The operating system for physical-world.
Run apps and AI at the edge, stream data, manage devices, and build interactive real-world experiences. From warehouses to streets we make edge + cloud + AI work together, at scale.
🧱 Why build on Phygrid?
Traditional IoT stacks are fragmented. AI at the edge is messy.
We fix that with:
- ✅ Edge-native OS (PhyOS) with OTA + GPU
- ✅ Digital twins + MCP for real-world context
- ✅ One CLI, API, and Console to manage it all
- ✅ Built-in MLOps + signals + remote ops
- ✅ Secure, compliant, multi-region data
🔍 Core concepts
Phygrid is everything you need to build for the real world. As easily as you build for the web.
PhyOS runs on Intel, ARM, or custom hardware. It’s a secure, GPU-accelerated container OS with OTA updates and built-in failover. Perfect for edge AI, high-performance logic, and hardware control.
Phyhub is your cloud-native backend. It manages digital twins, streams real-time data, powers ML pipelines, and handles everything from identity to products, checkout, and media.
Signals track every event, drive analytics, and fine-tune your models. Spaces map your environment from region to room, so you can target content, apply permissions, and generate rich reporting.
Peripherals — doors, cameras, printers, sensors — all become controllable through simple APIs and digital twin models. Your apps interact with them just like software objects.
And it's all tied together by a complete toolkit for developers: use the CLI, REST API, drop-in SDKs, the intuitive Console UI, or connect agentic workflows via the MCP server.
⚡️ Quickstart for developers
Build your first edge app in less than 10 minutes:
Want the full walkthrough? 👉 Check out the complete Edge App tutorial.
# Scaffold your edge app
phy app create
..
# Deploy to a local VM for testing (or connect a device)
phy vm create
phy vm start <vm-name>
..
# Push and register your app
phy app deploy <device-name>
..
# Connect to your device or VM shell
phy dev shell <device-name>
From here, you can iterate, publish new versions, and deploy at scale. All from the CLI or Console.
🧠 Edge AI Marketplace
- Deploy from Hugging Face with one command. Go from prototype to live edge inference in minutes.
- Fine-tune, run inference, and stream analytics. Manage your entire model lifecycle right from Phygrid.
- CLI and SDK support. Automate deployments, scaffold apps, upload models, and bind to devices with Node or Python.
- Roll out to thousands of devices. Phygrid handles orchestration, health checks, rollbacks, and fleet scaling.
- Build adaptive edge apps. Use MCP to make your models environment-aware and responsive to real-world signals.
- Install and manage via Console or CLI. Keep full control over where and how your apps run.
🔒 Data, security & compliance
- End-to-end encrypted. Data is secure in transit and at rest (WSS, HTTPS).
- Anonymized user IDs. Easy consent management and withdrawals.
- Global data residency. Choose where your data lives: EU, US, AU, IN, UAE.
- Signed containers with RBAC. Secure deployments and role-based access.
- CLI and SDK level control. Encrypt, deploy, and audit with Node and Python.
- ISO 27001 & 27701 certified. Enterprise-grade security and privacy.
- Firewall and threat detection. Azure WAF, IDPS, and Sentinel SIEM.
- Outbound-only networking. One port to whitelist, secure by default.
🥇 Why developers love Phygrid
No one else combines edge-native GPUs, OTA rollback, digital twins, live ML ops, and app UX in a single platform.
| Feature | Phygrid | AWS Greengrass | Azure IoT Edge | Balena | NVIDIA Fleet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-arch support | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | 🟡 |
| GPU acceleration | ✅ | 🟡 | 🟡 | 🟡 | 🟡 |
| ML framework support | ✅ | 🟡 | 🟡 | 🟡 | 🟡 |
| OS & device management | ✅ | 🟡 | 🟡 | ✅ | 🟡 |
| Application management | ✅ | 🟡 | 🟡 | 🟡 | 🟡 |
| Employee / visitor UI/UX | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| MLOps | ✅ | 🟡 | ❌ | ❌ | 🟡 |
| Peripheral management | ✅ | ❌ | 🟡 | ❌ | ❌ |
| MCP / LLMs environment interactions | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Analytics & dashboards | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | 🟡 |
| Access management (location) | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Resilient Edge Network stack | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
👩💻 Ready to build?
It only takes a few steps to get up and running with Phygrid.
- Set up your tenant Register your tenant and create your user account.
- Prepare your dev environment Install the CLI and connect to your tenant.
- Provision your first device Install PhyOS on your hardware and connect your device.
Now head to our tutorials to deploy your first edge app, screen app, or connect them into a complete real-world experience.
📚 Learn more
- Check out our guide to using Phygrid Console.
- Follow Phygrid on social media: X, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook.
💬 Contact us
If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected].