Polish Technology for Public Safety: 3,711 Kits Delivered for Poland’s Warning and Alarm System

WARSAW, Poland — 28.09.2026 — In a public warning system, every location matters. Sirens form part of an infrastructure built over many years, while operators need to know which devices they are working with and how to manage them securely.

A consortium of INNERGO, CTHINGS.CO and Ayotis has completed a project addressing that challenge for Poland’s National Headquarters of the State Fire Service. It prepared and delivered 3,711 Preconfigured Local Kits to 310 collection points across all 16 Polish provinces.

Production took 21 active days. In that time, each kit had to be assembled, configured, tested and documented. CTHINGS.CO, a Warsaw-based developer of IoT and edge infrastructure technology, provided the edge devices and built the process used to prepare them at this scale.

Building on the sirens already in place

Poland has approximately 22,000 alarm sirens. Developing the country’s Warning and Alarm System, known in Polish as SOiA, therefore means working with installations built at different times and supplied by different manufacturers.

Each local kit includes a siren controller, a CTHINGS.CO Edge Gateway, a LoRaWAN gateway, and power supply and backup components. Prepared for deployment at locations designated by the State Fire Service, the kits are designed to enable the gradual integration of existing sirens into SOiA. The controller can work with different sirens and OT/IT systems, allowing the warning infrastructure to develop around equipment already in use.

The solution is intended to let authorized operators remotely control sirens and selected nearby devices. Its design also accounts for interruptions to mains power, an important consideration for infrastructure intended to support public warnings.

Connectivity across Poland

The project includes dedicated LoRaWAN base station infrastructure to provide a communication channel for devices in the field. It also creates a foundation for future IoT connectivity serving the State Fire Service.

Across a nationwide system, connectivity is one part of the challenge. Information from devices must be available to operators, while remote access and actions across the infrastructure remain under control.

Thousands of kits, one quality standard

To deliver the kits within the production window, CTHINGS.CO developed PSPMFG, a dedicated production environment for the State Fire Service project. It connected work on each physical kit with a digital record of its configuration, test results, documentation and preparation for delivery.

Every kit passed through 17 provisioning and configuration stages and 17 factory testing stages before it could be approved. A private agentic AI environment helped the team analyze issues and prepare changes during production. Specialists remained responsible for decisions involving physical devices and for confirming that each kit was complete. This was a human-governed approach to using AI at scale.

89.65% of kits passed quality assurance on their first attempt. Results from earlier tests and diagnostics were retained for the remaining kits, preserving a record of how each one was prepared even after production was complete.

Remote management and cybersecurity

Devices and connectivity form the field layer of SOiA. CTHINGS.CO’s Orchestra Platform provides an environment for managing distributed devices, networks, software and secure access, giving operators visibility into the infrastructure and tools for remote work.

The distributed edge computing infrastructure managed through Orchestra can also run advanced applications for situational awareness and real-time decision-making. For crisis response teams, these applications could provide a clearer picture of events across locations and support better-informed decisions.

Orchestra is designed to work with technologies from different manufacturers. This allows the system to incorporate existing installations and add new devices without tying future decisions to a single supplier. Experience from the local kit project has also informed the platform’s further development.

In a warning system, cybersecurity includes knowing who can access devices, what actions they can take and how changes are introduced. That control is needed throughout the devices’ lifecycle, from preparation and deployment to operation, updates and future expansion. Orchestra helps maintain it as the infrastructure grows.

“In a warning system, what is at stake is the ability to get information to people when time matters. These systems must work across distributed infrastructure, cooperate with devices from different manufacturers and remain under the control of operators. This project shows that Polish technology can meet the demands of systems important to public safety — from preparing thousands of devices to creating the conditions for their continued development,” said Arnold Wierzejski, CEO of CTHINGS.CO.

A consortium with complementary roles

CTHINGS.CO supplied the edge device technology, software and Orchestra Platform, and was responsible for preparing and testing the local kits. INNERGO, a specialist in complex ICT projects, led the contract and integrated the solution, drawing on its experience with earlier SOiA deployments. Ayotis supplied the LoRaWAN gateways that form part of the project’s communications infrastructure.

From Smart City to Safe City

Cities increasingly rely on connected devices. Technologies supporting pedestrian crossing safety and smart lighting poles show how infrastructure in public spaces can take on new functions. As these systems grow, secure connectivity, interoperability and remote management become more important.

Those same capabilities can serve public safety. In SOiA, technologies used to connect and manage distributed infrastructure support the development of a system designed to warn people. The State Fire Service project demonstrates the practical potential of dual-use technology: bringing devices from different manufacturers together, managing them securely at scale and maintaining control over access can help strengthen infrastructure on which communities may depend.