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The Next Generation of Intelligent Flight

Real-world drone solutions today. Next-generation flight architecture tomorrow.

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We don't just build drones.

We build the systems that allow drones to sense, communicate, understand and act.

SENSE

CONNECT

UNDERSTAND

ACT

HUMAN × TECHNOLOGY · A LINE THROUGH LIFE

STARRY NIGHT

Where the stars light up, there is peace.

One line, a whole life — from the first breath in the fields, to the drone-guarded city, to the hand that holds the next generation. STARRY NIGHT is not built to make faster technology, but to keep this line unbroken: to extend care further, and to keep the rituals of life.

The city is not the other side after leaving home. Here, rivers are data lines, field ridges are roads, drones are the daily arms of the city, and the garbage truck's route is still a form of care.

We will learn in the first city.

Learning the anticipation of the first morning bus departure, the rhythm of traffic weaving beside afternoon campuses, the warmth of that one street-corner lamp left on for someone in the deep night.

STARRY NIGHT's mission is to teach the city to "understand." From the first breath of the first city, from every minute calibration of data, we teach this city to understand human daily life and adapt to human habits.

WHY THE LINE MUST NOT BREAK

This is why we chose light — the silicon photonics backbone. Not because it is faster, but because it keeps the line unbroken through storms, through the deep night, where it is needed most. Technology here is not cold light — it is the line that extends care further.

FROM ELECTRONIC TO PHOTONIC

The Era of Robots Has Arrived

As national-security concerns reshape city infrastructure, bandwidth demand flips: by 2030, AI agents will consume what humans once did — then far exceed it. Only a photonic backbone can carry that load.

Bandwidth Demand Crossover

Human vs. AI Agent usage

HumanAI Agent

Illustrative trajectory — relative bandwidth consumption, 2020–2034.

ELECTRONIC ERA

~1980 – 2025

RF, copper and radio defined how machines talked — bounded by spectrum and distance.

PHOTONIC ERA

2026 →

Light replaces radio. 1.6T → 3.2T per link, 20 km reach, no spectrum license.

ROBOT ERA

2030 →

AI agents surpass human bandwidth use — autonomous fleets need a photonic backbone.

Flight is for connecting more safely, for living more at ease.

When this city truly learns thoughtfulness, everyone within it will genuinely feel the tenderness the city offers — in the smooth morning light and the tranquil night.

Where the stars light up, there is peace.

Enter the full City Chronicle

CIJIN PHOTONIC ISLAND · A COMPLETE NARRATIVE OF THE AI ERA

"Technology is the gentlest way we guard this island."

A Beam of Light Across the Strait

In the AI era, the allocation of power and communication, the urban-rural divide, the difficulty of building, and ceaseless disasters all become thresholds of our time. We know how hard it is to be a small island — but also that this is no excuse for not guarding this place. Technology is the gentlest way we guard this island.

01PAIN POINTS

Why Islands Are Left Behind in the AI Era

80–90% of Taiwan’s power is from fossil fuels (coal & gas), and over 90% of fuel is imported. Large AI data centers can only sit beside power plants — islands far from the grid are silently excluded from rich AI applications.

01 · Resource Allocation · Power

Why Islands Are Silently Left Behind — How SiPh Breaks the Chains of Power & Grid

【01 Pain Point Analysis】Resource Allocation & Power Dilemma

In an era where compute is national power, large data centers are essentially “electricity monsters” and “heat sources.” 80–90% of Taiwan’s power comes from fossil fuels (coal & gas), and over 90% of energy fuel relies on overseas imports.

Grid Over-Concentrated

Hyperscale AI data centers, for stable supply and lower transmission loss, can only be built beside large power plants or the core grid.

Islands Marginalized

Outlying islands far from the main grid, with limited grid capacity and no large-scale cooling, are silently excluded from rich AI compute and innovation.

Our solution centers on silicon photonics — a distributed architecture that seamlessly links large data centers with on-site application fields; ultra-high bandwidth and massive connectivity to handle AI-era data surges; while drastically cutting optical-electrical conversion power for extreme low-carbon sustainability — the next-gen compute infrastructure that is both high-performance and green ESG.

02 · Communication Infrastructure

Traditional Bottlenecks in Comms Infrastructure

Current 5G and RF are limited by costly spectrum licenses and base-station coverage. Extended to cross-sea, island or harsh environments, build & maintenance costs grow exponentially, and links are highly fragile to wind, rain, salt-spray and terrain.

03 · Pre & Post-Disaster Redeployment

“In the past, a typhoon toppled a 5G base station — aerial trucks, antenna swaps, RF tuning, days of blackout. But in our optical architecture, the field has no complex electronics; a broken line just needs re-splicing or a new fiber, and the site instantly reconnects to the backend data center. This makes our system not just for daily operations, but the most trusted disaster-response & info-comm resilience line for governments at critical moments.”

SILICON PHOTONICS BRIDGE

Silicon Photonics Bridges Two Islands

Cijin Photonic Island — Photonic backbone to Main Island AI Data Center

● Photonic Backbone to Main Island● AI Data Center (Main Island)● 8K Smart Intersection● Drone Inspection

ESGRESILIENCE MATRIX

A Promise Written for the Future

The Japan-Taiwan co-prosperity plan — long-term commitments to the land, residents and future — form the three cornerstones of a resilient disaster-prevention system.

For the Environment

Low-carbon drones and optical communication replace high-pollution patrol vehicles to protect Cijin’s coastal ecology. We drive VLM edge-AI recognition training on East-Asian terrain and Asian building structures, making guardianship precise and minimizing disturbance to nature.

60% Patrol Carbon Cut

For the Residents

Disaster response and safe neighborhoods build a sustainable, high-resilience community safety net — guarding tourism and local financial confidence so generations live here with peace.

Second-Level Disaster Response

For the Future

Data-driven precision governance — lifting local tourism safety & efficiency, accelerating pre- and post-disaster recovery.

Precision Governance · Fast Recovery

02ROLE MODEL

A Model Where Technology Serves the People Who Stay

We want Cijin to be a model — technology advancing, while the future of those who live here advances with it. Season after season, we use technology to make Cijin better.