Rune Launches TyrSense to Track Personnel and Supplies Offline

Ruggedized NFC tags scan personnel, casualties, and cargo into Rune's TyrOS platform, even when communications are denied.

ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rune Technologies, which builds AI-enabled predictive technology for military logistics in contested environments, today announced TyrSense, a line of ruggedized sensors that track personnel and supplies at the tactical edge. TyrSense is Rune's first suite of hardware products, extending the TyrOS platform to the units that count supplies and people in the field.

The first TyrSense sensors are small, durable NFC tags. Scanning a tag at each handoff records the location and status of a person or a pallet to TyrOS, with the location set by the node where the scan happens rather than by GPS. The tags need no cloud connection or satellite signal, so units keep tracking in denied, degraded, intermittent, or low-bandwidth (DDIL) conditions and synchronize once a connection returns.

In-transit visibility has become a priority across the force, yet much of the work behind it still runs by hand. Units track what they have on whiteboards and paper manifests, and those counts are slow to pull together and quick to break the moment a unit moves or the network drops.

TyrSense maps to three workflows units already run by hand. For personnel accountability, scanning a tag allows setting an individual's duty status and replaces the manual roll-up that starts each day. In medical operations, a scan records each transfer of a casualty from the point of injury through each successive level of care. For cargo, tags on pallets register a shipment as it clears each node in the network. These uses extend Rune beyond sustainment into the personnel and medical workflows that still depend on manual reporting.

"We started in the sustainment lane, and the same broken process shows up everywhere a unit counts what it has," said David Tuttle, Co-Founder and CEO of Rune Technologies. "TyrSense puts a simple tag on a person or a pallet and turns a morning of manual reporting into a single scan. That's the kind of problem we exist to remove."

TyrSense builds on a year of TyrOS fielding with operational units. During Balikatan 26 in the Philippines, TyrOS gave tactical commanders visibility into food, water, fuel, and personnel for thousands of troops across a Joint Task Force. Rune is the sole logistics provider on the Marine Corps' Project Dynamis and the only application chosen by both prime contractor teams on the Army's Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) program. Rune plans to expand the TyrSense line to sensors for fuel, water, and other bulk commodities, which are now in development.

"A tag has to work in a vehicle and with no signal, because that's where these counts happen," said Peter Goldsborough, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Rune Technologies. "We built TyrSense so the scan registers at the edge and reaches TyrOS the moment a connection is there. The hardware is deliberately simple. The value is what TyrOS does with the data."

To learn more about TyrSense and TyrOS, visit runetech.co.

About Rune Technologies:
Rune Technologies is revolutionizing military logistics through AI-enabled predictive software that operates in contested environments where communications are denied or degraded. Rune's TyrOS platform transforms manual logistics processes into intelligent supply webs that anticipate needs, optimize resources, and enable distributed operations at machine speed—even when supply lines are targeted by near-peer adversaries. Founded by veterans with deep operational experience and Silicon Valley engineering talent, Rune is ensuring military effectiveness through precise execution of critical logistics operations. For more information, visit runetech.co.