Enter Axis, a platform that lets you take control of—and earn from—the devices you already own.

Axis is a desktop application that seamlessly integrates with smart devices through their APIs and SDKs. Unlike other DePIN protocols that focus on single data types, Axis already supports over 2,000 different devices.

Before you purchase a new smart device, use Axis to:

• Research devices and vendors through their Privacy Score

• Understand how much data they collect

• Learn what they're allowed to do with your information

Our Privacy Score combines AI-powered analysis of privacy policies with real-time network traffic monitoring to give you a complete picture of data usage.

For your existing smart devices, Axis puts you in control. Through our partnership with the IoT Data DAO on Vana, you can:

• Choose which data to share

• Maintain ownership of your information

• Earn rewards when your data is used

• Opt out completely if you prefer

As AI agents become mainstream, sensor data is increasingly valuable. These agents need real-world data to respond to real-world events, making smart devices their eyes, ears in our homes and offices.

Currently, device manufacturers have backdoor access to our sensor data, often collecting it without our knowledge or consent. Axis is changing this dynamic by:

• Giving control back to device owners

• Enabling broader innovation

• Creating transparency in data collection

We believe a simple principle: if you buy a device, you should own its data. A company's role in creating a sensor shouldn't grant them exclusive rights to the data it generates.

Axis is building a fairer future for smart device data—one device at a time.

The "datasphere” - all data in existence - is expected to reach about 175ZB by 2025. One ZB is one billion terabytes. That’s a lot of data. But the public internet, or "surface web"—where you and I spend most of our time online—accounts for less than 0.5% of it. The remaining 99.5%? It’s created by governments, private companies, and sensors that silently gather data from the world around us.

The surface web is attention-optimized. The same properties that make it so interesting to interact with every day make it a poor source of raw data. Videos, blogs, and social media posts are highly curated and don’t reflect the complexity of real-life experience. 

If we want to make accurate predictions about the world or gain real insight, we need data that reflects what’s happening in the physical world—beyond the internet’s bubble. Enter the rest of the datasphere.

In the last decade, people have deployed sensors everywhere—across cities, homes, industries, and vehicles. These digital sensors capture real-world data in at least 10 modalities: audio, video, temperature, pressure, motion, and more. There are over 16 billion of these sensors in operation today, collecting data that’s rarely shared or even seen. This data holds incredible potential for research, business decisions, and improving AI models.

But right now, most of this IoT data—around 80ZB of it, or almost half of the entire datasphere—is discarded or siloed. It’s inaccessible, underutilized, and often ignored.

Introducing Oz

Oz creates the incentives and infrastructure for device owners to monetize data feeds from existing sensors. Through our partnerships with leading data marketplaces like AWS and Snowflake, Oz allows sensor data to be packaged and sold to teams and organizations that need it to fuel their insights, products, and AI systems.

Imagine a network of agricultural sensors monitoring soil moisture and crop health. Traditionally, this data would be locked within a single farm's operations. With Oz, this data can now be sold to agricultural researchers, governments, or companies to help improve farming techniques on a larger scale.

Our testnet is live now, and we’re actively building support for hundreds of types of IoT sensors. Join our mission to unlock the full value of the world’s data.

Oz is a permissionless protocol—any developer can build sense agents to interface with IoT devices, collect their data, and bring it to market. Developers who build with Oz will earn a share of the revenue from the sensors that utilize their sense agents, forever.

Start building sense agents and claim your share of the revenue from IoT sensors today.

To build a sense agent, get in touch:
https://tally.so/r/3NY02N

References

• International Data Corporation. (2022). The digitization of the world: From edge to core (IDC White Paper No. P24793). https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=IDC_P24793

• Worldwide Web Size. (n.d.). Worldwide web size. Retrieved October 14, 2024, from https://www.worldwidewebsize.com/