Research & White Papers

The ideas behind
the platform.

Deep technical documentation, protocol specifications, and long-form vision papers from the Continuis Labs engineering and research teams.

Technical Specification · CLR-001
The Peripheral Detection Protocol: An Open Standard for Universal Sensor Interoperability
A complete technical specification of PDP — the open wire protocol enabling any sensing peripheral to securely authenticate, describe, calibrate, and stream data through the MNEMOS platform. Covers the five-phase handshake, TEDS EEPROM layout, the MNEMOS Binary Protocol frame structure, ECDSA-P256 hardware identity, and the developer integration model.
Protocol Spec TEDS MBP Framing Security
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Vision Paper · CLR-002
The Planetary Sensing Stack: A Software Layer for the Physical World
A long-form argument for why the physical world needs a universal software abstraction layer — and how MNEMOS provides it. Traces the fragmentation of industrial sensing protocols, the rise of intelligent machines from factory robots to humanoids, and describes the architecture of a unified, open, secure sensing infrastructure for the next century of automation.
Vision Industrial IoT Robotics Interoperability
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Security Architecture · CLR-003
Zero-Trust Edge: Hardware Identity and Secure Authentication for Connected Physical Systems
A detailed treatment of the threat model, cryptographic identity system, authentication flows, transport security, and audit architecture that underpin the MNEMOS platform. Covers hardware-bound ECDSA-P256 keys on secure elements, gateway bearer tokens, SHA-256 one-way storage, TLS 1.3 in transit, and the zero-trust principles applied at every layer from probe to cloud.
Zero-Trust ECDSA TLS 1.3 Secure Element
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Peer-reviewed process
All white papers undergo internal engineering review and are updated with each protocol revision.
Open licensing
Protocol specifications are published under CC BY 4.0 — free to implement, cite, and build upon.
Reference implementations
Every specification is accompanied by a working Python or C reference implementation on GitHub.
RFC-style feedback
Comment on any spec via GitHub Issues. Protocol changes follow a formal revision process with versioning.

Citing these papers

If you reference Continuis Labs research in academic work, standards contributions, or technical documentation, please use the following citation format. DOIs will be assigned when papers reach stable release (v1.0).

@techreport{continuislabs2026pdp, title = {The Peripheral Detection Protocol}, author = {{Continuis Labs Engineering}}, year = {2026}, number = {CLR-001}, url = {https://continuislabs.io/research/whitepaper-pdp} }